As customer-facing staff, cabin crew require strong interpersonal skills, but their primary responsibility is safety, and their training must reflect that, as Bernie Baldwin reports. Airline cabin crew are front-line personnel and, as such, are brand ambassadors for their employer. What is often forgotten though, is that their primary role…
Flight safety is the linchpin of aviation’s success, and in an ever-changing industry its importance continues to be paramount. New tools, new practices and new methodologies are going some way to improve both safety and efficiency within aviation’s digitalised, more sustainable future. We sat down with execs from across the…
2023 in aviation is set to be a year like no other. As the aviation industry accelerates out of the effects of the COVID-19 downturn, we reflect on how the pandemic’s effects — and the three years since 2019 —have changed aviation forever. In the most recent article in our…
How do aviation regulators certify that a particular aircraft is airworthy? How are airworthiness certificates issued, what is examined, and what does the process look like? Join us for the latest in our ab initio primer guides! With the growth of a variety of new technologies, from advanced automation to…
As defined by the US FAA, a Safety Management System — or SMS — is the “formal, top-down, organisation-wide approach to managing safety risk and assuring the effectiveness of safety risk controls.” An SMS will include, according to the FAA, “systematic procedures, practices, and policies for the management of safety risk.”…
Our Marketplace Spotlight series focuses on the partners making the Yocova platform come alive and the digital aviation solutions they provide. Read on to hear from FoxATM about their tools, experience and expertise in designing runway occupancy measurement applications. Find out about the Foxbox toolbox, an elegant yet effective way…
With the ever-growing amount of lithium batteries being shipped by air across the world, the risk of hard-to-contain lithium-driven fires aboard aircraft — known technically as Class D fires — is complex to mitigate. Part of the problem in mitigation is that there is, as yet, no standard for containing…
Airlines can accrue bottom-line benefits from the use of cockpit visual guidance systems which enable increased operations in adverse weather, as Bernie Baldwin reports. “The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears.” This quote from George Orwell’s 1984 might not readily spring to mind when…
The benefits of live satellite tracking are many — improved safety, more efficient operations, better information — but a step change has come with the recent adoption of new satellite-based ADS-B tracking. Conclusion of hard work within the industry before and during the COVID-19 pandemic now means that any flight at…
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