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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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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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Of Competency-based Training and Augmented Reality

April 14, 2016 by thebengali

Professor, pilot, instructional designer, and author, Suzanne Kearns has just co-authored Competency-Based Education in Aviation. In this interview, Suzanne holds forth on trends in training technology, augmented reality, and the role of eLearning in competency-based learning. Sanjay Mukherjee, April 14, 2016 Suzanne Kearns wears several hats as part of her typical day; but all of them have two things in common: aviation and online learning. Over the years, she’s become a regular speaker at the World Aviation Training Symposium (WATS), organised […]

Categories: Learning, People • Tags: assessments, augmented reality, competency, competency-based learning, eLearning, evaluation, gamification, online learning, pilots, simulators

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