Tag: Singapore

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

“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

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