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| What can members of this forum do to improve global pilot training? by Bob - 08 Feb 12 - 17:44 |
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| I’d like to take this opportunity to introduce the International Association of Flight Training Professionals (http://IAFTP.org). It complements the activities of this forum by providing a way to further develop the ideas shared here into potential global pilot training best practices IAFTP was created to facilitate the global sharing of pilot training practices at all levels of experience and in all types of aircraft. We opened an online Training Practices Database about a year ago and since then have been encouraging aviation training professionals to share those unique gems of wisdom that every good instructor tries to impart upon his or her students to make them better pilots. Any instructor who has ever had more than one student knows that he/she needs to have a variety of techniques available to help students achieve task competency because every student learns differently even if they are highly screened and selected. That’s why IAFTP’s effort to create a global clearinghouse of pilot training practices and techniques is so important to our present and future generations of flight instructors. Through this thread, I’d like to encourage members of the Training and Simulation Forum to discuss their issues and concerns regarding the future direction of pilot training and what we should do about it. And, if you have the time, post a training practice at http://iaftp.org/submit-a-training-practice/. Thank you! Robert Barnes IAFTP President | |
| What can members of this forum do to improve global pilot training? by Tim Mahon - 09 Feb 12 - 11:40 |
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| Bob, welcome to TSF and many thanks for posing an open-ended question that our members will find easy to respond to. I think there is an interesting parallel and a difference at the same time between the military and civil pilot training worlds at the moment. In the military field the current swathe of budget cuts and austerity measures are driving more and more training towards the synthetic environment, rather than instructor-led or 'live' aircraft training. In some cases as much as 80% of total flight hours during a training programme will be taken in a simulator. This is giving rise to concern in some quarters. In the civil field, the same is true and in fact is probably even more so. In many cases, the first time an airline pilot flies the 'live' aircraft, he will have paying passengers on board - 100% of his 'type' flight hours to that point may well have been in a simulator. In an editorial in Flight International recently, the question was raised as to whether airline pilots were (potentially) becoming lazy and whether enough training time was concentrated on emergency procedures or 'seat of the pants' flying procedures if the worst happens and the aircraft's computers crash irretrievably. In the world in which I suspect a great number of your members' students come from, in smaller aircraft and from many walks of life, I'm not sure if there is a norm or if so, what it is. It would be instructive, however, to get a broad variety of viewpoints included in this conversation. We have a research project aimed at this that is just beginning to develop and a robust conversation on the topic would help inform the views we will incorporate in it. I look forward to more on the subject - and once again, thanks for posting your thoughts. Tim Mahon - Managing Editor, TSF | |
| What can members of this forum do to improve global pilot training? by Bob - 09 Feb 12 - 17:09 |
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| Thanks, Tim. Our current Training Article of the Month touches on this very issue and your comments are very appropriate for our members. Therefore, I'd like to invite you to post them to our discussion at: http://iaftp.org/2012/01/adapting-curriculum-and-training-tools-to-effectively-teach-technology-and-operational-change/ Best regards, Bob P.S. Please be sure to include a reference to this forum and your research project. | |
| What can members of this forum do to improve global pilot training? by Bob - 26 Mar 12 - 17:40 |
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| On February 27th, the FAA released a notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) on Pilot Certification and Qualification Requirements for Air Carrier Operations. As we all know, aviation is a global industry and what happens in one State certainly impacts all other States. For that reason, we just opened a discussion about this very concern on the IAFTP.org website (“The Global Impact of the FAA NPRM …”). Your readers’ comments are encouraged at: http://iaftp.org/2012/03/the-global-impact-of-the-faa-nprm-regarding-pilot-certification-and-qualification-requirements-for-air-carrier-operations-u-s/ | |
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