The importance of training in aviation cannot be over emphasized. This has been amply demonstrated by recent events, including the Air France A330 crash and the A380 taxi incident, in both of which pilot training issues have been identified as important contributory factors.
But the need for quality training extends way beyond pilots and air traffic controllers. People working on all levels and in all aviation disciplines must be able to supplement their basic training and skills with new knowledge constantly being generated in this fast moving industry.
Training is an expensive affair. The courses themselves tend to have a steep price and having people travel to the course location incurs additional expenses. Temporary absence from the workplace must also be accounted for. With company budgets under stress everywhere, managers are often forced to axe all but essential training. Of course the line between essential and nice to have is not always easy to identify and missing out on important new knowledge happens before we know it.
However, modern technology is here to help. Enter the Advanced E-training Courses being offered in air traffic management by the HACE/BluSky Services partnership. These two companies bring together several years’ worth of expertise in air traffic management and e-learning to offer a wide range of courses at a very reasonable price.
Whether you are an individual wishing to expand your horizons or a company with a need to bring its personnel up to speed on certain subjects, e-learning provides a cost-effective and convenient way to acquire the knowledge you seek. In all cases, the total cost is a fraction of what an equivalent classroom course would require in terms of time and money.
Purchasing your own e-learning package has the added advantage that you complete it at a time of your choice and at a pace that best suits your schedule. No more waiting for a classroom course to be available and no more swapping of shifts so you can attend a course.
HACE already sports an impressive portfolio of courses oriented mainly towards the MRO area and these will now be progressively supplemented by titles like System Wide Information Management (SWIM), Validation and Verification, Collaborative Decision Making (CDM), Performance Based Navigation (PBN) and many other interesting areas in the CNS/ATM field.
The portfolio will grow in line with the demand the aim being to ensure that people and organizations always find what they need at a price they can afford.
I can almost hear the question now: with so much information available free on the Internet why would anyone want to pay for a course being offered by HACE/BluSky? The answer lies in the difference between the words “reading” and “training”. Google the abbreviation “PBN” and you will get thousands of hits all containing information on Performance Based Navigation. The relevance of some of the information may be questionable but there will be a lot of good stuff too. A lot… so which ones do you read? And if you read parts of most of it, are you sure you will be getting the right picture? Although the information is free, reading it all takes time and in the end you will still not be sure that your knowledge of PBN is what you really need.
Now if you take the PBN course we will be offering, for a very reasonable price you will get a focused run on the subject complete with exercises to ensure that your new found knowledge is properly burned into your mind and that in the shortest time you walk away sure to understand everything that may come your way in the PBN context. No casual browsing of free material can do that for you. This applies even more to other new concepts like SWIM or CDM.
We cannot offer you a free lunch, I am afraid but what we are offering is a lunch well worth its modest price.
Contact Steve Zerkowitz or Danny Goergen to discuss your e-learning needs or check out the HACE web-site for our existing courses.