Tag: 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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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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“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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Notes on Aviation Training Trends from APATS 2016

September 8, 2016 by thebengali

Last week (August 30-31, 2016) saw a flurry of discussions and conferences at the two-day Asia Pacific Aviation Training Symposium (APATS) in Singapore. Attended by 559 delegates from 45 countries, representing 51 airlines, 234 companies, APATS 2016 saw 32 presentations on various operational and training matters, addressing some major training issues confronting the Asian aviation industry. Taking off from the WATS narrative in Orlando in April 2016, APATS saw a continued expression of the aviation industry’s worry regarding current pilot shortages, […]

Categories: Learning, Science & Technology, Work • Tags: Airbus, APATS, APATS2016, Aviation, Boeing, Cabin Crew, CAT Magazine, competency-based learning, EATS 2016, EBT, Evidence Based Training, Flight Crew, Halldale Media, Human Factors, India, Learning, online learning, Peak Pacific, Peak Pacific Limited, pilots, Safety Training, Sanjay Mukherjee, Simulation, Singapore, Technology, thebengali, WATS

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The Future of Cabin Crew Training is already here

April 20, 2016 by thebengali

A fully implemented Virtual Reality training suite from Airbus, American Airline’s Mobile Learning organisation … Day 1 at WATS 2016 Cabin Conference track provided refreshing insights Sanjay Mukherjee, 20 April 2016, Orlando, Florida Tuesday (April 19) was kind of a cool break-out day on the Cabin Crew conference at the World Aviation Training Symposium (WATS) 2016 at Rosen Shingle Creek, Orlando, Florida, USA. Round conference tables (great touch because it gets people in a mingle and conversation mode), eclectic mix of cabin crew training […]

Categories: Learning, Science & Technology • Tags: Airlines, Aviation, Cabin Crew, Mobile Learning, online learning, Orlando, TEM, Virtual Reality

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