Category Archives: Aviation

“VR, Gaming Are Exciting, But We Must Handle Them With Care (For Cabin Crew Training)”

November 10, 2017 by thebengali

Anna Mellberg Karlsson is Chief Cabin Safety and CRM Instructor at Novair, Sweden. A well known and respected cabin crew training professional, Anna is also the moderator of the Cabin Crew Conference stream at the European Aviation Training Symposium (EATS), organised by Halldale Media’s CAT Magazine. In this interview on the eve of EATS 2017 in Berlin, Anna provides some candid insights into what it takes to be a cabin crew, current challenges in cabin crew recruitment, the changing profile […]

Categories: Aviation, eLearning, Learning, Media, News, People, Training • Tags: Anna Mellberg Karlsson, Aviation, AviationTraining, Berlin, Cabin Crew, Chief Strategy Advisor, EATS2017, European Aviation Training Symposium, Germany, Halldale Media, Mixed Reality, Novair, Peak Pacific, Sanjay Mukherjee, Sweden, thebengali, Virtual Reality

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“You Can’t Just Throw Technology At A Training Problem – You Have to Have Curriculum, You Have to Have Instructional Design”

November 10, 2017 by thebengali

31 October 2017, EATS2017, Estrel Convention Centre, Berlin: He is the ‘Editor in Chief’ of Halldale Media’s iconic aviation industry magazines – Civil Aviation Training (CAT Magazine) and Military & Simulation Training (MS&T). Unassuming and rather publicity shy for a famous industry trade journalist, Christopher Lehman is a whole lot more than an aviation journalist. Epitomising the competency and professional performance focus that CAT and MS&T espouse in all their editorial content and conference programs, Chris is a first among […]

Categories: Aviation, eLearning, Journalism, Media, News, People, Training • Tags: Aviation, AviationTraining, Berlin, CAT Magazine, Christopher Lehman, EATS2017, European Aviation Training Symposium, FRAes, Germany, Halldale Media, Instructional Design, MS&T, Technology

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Surreal.airport.(nu)evolution

September 21, 2017 by thebengali

That was surreal. 5.53 pm – I join the queue to check-in to my Qatar Airways flight. 5.56 pm – at the counter to check-in 5.58 pm – am done 6.03 pm – enter the immigration zone 6.08 pm – am done 6.11 pm – security check done That’s 18 minutes seamless experience and I took time to just stand, take it in, click photographs. Surreal. (For the record, have been to Doha several times and this past couple of […]

Categories: Aviation, Learning, Science & Technology • Tags: Doha, HamadInternationalAirport

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Life At An Airport (When Stranded)

September 20, 2017 by thebengali

Mumbai International Airport, Mumbai, 20 September 2017, 0830 hours: What works after a long, hard night in the airport trenches? Hot, strong, chai, that’s what. And even that had seemed to be running low the past two hours. It’s been a veryyy long night but dawn is breaking finally and the incessant rain has stopped. (Though I hear a cyclone is bearing down on Mumbai from the Arabian Sea). I came in to the airport last night around 11 pm […]

Categories: Aviation, Learning, Training, Work • Tags: airports, ATC, Aviation, Cabin Crew, Ground Staff, Mumbai Airport, pilots, Training

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The People Are The Only Difference: Notes From Places Between 33,000 Feet Above Sea-Level and Ground Reality

September 3, 2017 by thebengali

28 August 2017: Just arrived in Singapore for the Asia Pacific Aviation Training Symposium (APATS) and the moment I sat in the taxi to get to the hotel, I started planning and organising my thoughts and tasks for the next four days. Once in the room, I kept my bags on the floor near the work desk, took out my chargers, laptop, iPad, phone and plugged them in. Then, I made a big cup of black coffee, poured three sachets […]

Categories: Aviation, Learning, People, Science & Technology, Society, Work • Tags: APATS, Cabin Crew, Cities, India, pilots, Pune, Singapore, Technology, Work-life

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“Massive Potential for Online Training Technologies; The Critical Point is Going To Be The Measurement” – Andy Smith

August 31, 2017 by thebengali

Aviation Training is estimated to be a 6 Billion USD industry, which is growing very rapidly. While a healthy 12% of this market-size belongs to Training Hardware products (Simulator, Training Devices sub-segment), the industry portfolio includes a very diverse range of Services, Products and Emerging solutions. We had a chance to catch up at length with Andy Smith, Founder of Halldale Media at the Asia Pacific Aviation Training Symposium (APATS 2017) in Singapore (held on August 28-30, 2017). Halldale publishes […]

Categories: Aviation, Learning, Media, News, People, Science & Technology, Training • Tags: Andy Smith, APATS2017, AR, Asia, Asia Pacific Aviation Training Symposium, Aviation, AviationTraining, Cabin Crew, CAT Magazine, EATS, Europe, Halldale Media, Medical Training Magazine, MS&T, online learning, Online Training Technologies, Regulators, simulators, Singapore, Technology, thebengali, Training Devices, VR, WATS

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“Shared Best Practices are the way forward for Asian Aviation industry”

August 28, 2017 by thebengali

Singapore, August 28, 2017: The Asia Pacific Aviation Training Symposium (APATS), a conference by the reputed Civil Aviation Training (CAT) Magazine, will kick off at The Marina Bay Sands Expo Centre in Singapore on Tuesday, 29th August 2017. Organised by Halldale Media, APATS 2017 is expecting around 600 attendees from more than 40 countries. The two-day event will see eminent speakers engage audiences in 30 conference sessions across two streams (Pilot And Cabin Crew). The event is also hosting 46 […]

Categories: Aviation, Learning, Media, News, Science & Technology, Training • Tags: APATS, Asia, Aviation, CAT Magazine, Halldale, Jacques Drappier, Training

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