Technical advances in aircraft capabilities and airspace management continue to develop at a bewildering pace, limiting choices open to pilots and demanding strict compliance with accepted norms whilst the operating environment becomes ever more crowded. Pilot activities move ever closer towards monitoring automatic activities, increasingly denying said pilots opportunities to exercise those skills that define their calling and might be expected to yield the greatest personal satisfaction of having ‘flown’ the aircraft with ‘stick and rudder’.
As the balance between automation and piloting skills continues to move towards the former, the aircraft commander in the 21st century may need to exhibit a skill set that differs from that of a previous generation, where ‘command’ used to mean having to exercise considerable knowledge and experience in ‘getting the job done - safeIy’ despite inadequate communications, inaccurate weather forecasts, poorly performing aircraft, and a paucity of navigation and safety aids. Yet recent research has shown that automation on the flight deck and its interface with pilots is not without an assortment of risks that must be addressed: not before time is attention being directed towards viable mitigation.
What, then, must the coming generation of aircraft commanders possess in their personal tool kits, and what are the challenges they face? How should they be selected and prepared for the responsibilities they will be expected to undertake? And how will they remain motivated to feel that they, as individuals, can make a difference and develop as the years roll by if they are not to consider themselves little more than aviating computer programmers?
This Conference highlights some of these questions that you might wish to address, for failure to develop viable solutions can put at risk the long sought-for need to have in command of commercial air transport aircraft persons who are both professionally competent and motivated continually to deliver safe and efficient travel for the general public.
Details of the programme can be found by clicking the link on the right hand side. Register online or by completing the booking form and returning it to the RAeS Conference and Events Department via email to conference@aerosociety.com
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REGISTRATION FEES:
Non-Member: £550 + VAT
RAeS Corporate Partner: £450 + VAT
RAeS Member: £400 + VAT
RAeS Baseline Member: £125 + VAT
* Please note, early bird discount does not apply to RAeS Baseline Member rate.
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Royal Aeronautical Society Headquarters
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No. 4 Hamilton Place, London, W1J 7BQ