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Flight Instructor Professionalism

The inherent risk associated with aviation demands a high level of professionalism among aviation employees to ensure safety. Professionalism consists of factors such as technical competence, personal competence, neatnes…

Pilot Professionalism and Attitude Management: A New CRM Generation?

Crew Resource Management (CRM) is the professional training program provided by air carriers to assist pilots in their use of all resources (human, hardware, and software).

Generational Shift: Why We Should Modify Our Instructional Strategies for the Next Generations of Aviators

Air transportation has proven to be an extremely safe, efficient and reliable means for travel – a testament to highly effective instruction and training.

Understanding Generation: Implications for Flight Training, Hiring, and Retention

Generation is a much discussed topic in the literature on workforce training and education. The simultaneous presence of numerous generations in the workforce has created tensions, challenges, and opportunities.

Session 6: Professionalism - The Challenges of Preparing the Next Generation

The Challenge of Preparing the Next Generation. Six interesting talks will be given in this session. Presentations include generational issues and differences, the importance of instructional strategies on professionalis…

Leadership, Excellence and Professionalism (LEaP)

United Airlines is proactively preparing for known and unknown operations threats associated with retirements, hiring, growth along with the pending generational upheaval, NextGen, technology, and the upcoming mandate on…

No Time Like the Present: Introducing the Next Generation of Human Factors

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Afternoon Featured Speaker — Restoring the Foundation of Aviation: 2030 and Beyond

The foundational health and vitality of general aviation has been in slow but steady decline for decades as the result of a number of factors.

Recipe for Success: Behavioral Ingredients for Superior Performing Leaders

The aviation and aerospace business is a complex adaptive system that includes emerging technologies, competitors, government policies, cost demands, globalization, and talent constraints.

The Application of Shared Leadership in an Aviation Maintenance MTS Environment

The use of a multiteam system approach has been proven useful for many organizational environments, notably those that operate in dynamic and demanding surroundings.

Why Do We Learn What We Learn? The Intersection of Leadership and Learning in Aviation Environments

Why do we learn what we learn? Teach what we teach? Train how we train? Largely, decisions regarding instruction and training in aviation environments are dictated by leadership.

Session 5: Leadership in Aviation

Four presentations will be given during this session. Topics include multi-team systems in an aviation maintenance environment, leadership in an unpredictable environment, instructional planning, how learning and leading…

Delta Air Lines and Its Future

A synopsis of current hiring at Delta and what the airline is looking for in candidates.

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Lunch Keynote Speaker — Challenges of Increasing Automation

The theory of automation is that it can eliminate human error by eliminating the human from the loop. Experience has demonstrated, however, that although automation can significantly increase productivity, efficiency, re…

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Challenges of Increasing Automation

The theory of automation is that it can eliminate human error by eliminating the human from the loop. Experience has demonstrated, however, that although automation can significantly increase productivity, efficiency, re…

Pilot Supply at the Regional Airlines: Airline Response to the Changing Environment and the Impact on Pilot Hiring

Regional airlines facing pilot supply challenges have responded to the rapidly changing environment by increasing pay, adjusting lifestyle factors, and enhancing career pathway opportunities.

Airline Pilot Supply and Pilot Experience

A well-trained and highly skilled pilot is the most important safety feature of any airline flight. Since 2010 there have been no passenger fatalities on board an airline aircraft in the United States.

Session 4 (continued): Pilot Supply Problem

A total of eight presentations will be given during this session (split into two segments with a break in-between). The pilot supply problem topics will include issues on pilot shortage and hiring cycles in the rapidly c…

Perspectives on the Pilot Supply Problem

Aviation Industry Outlook

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Flight School Capacity in the U.S. - Turbulence Ahead?

For over a generation, U.S. air carriers have relied almost exclusively on external third parties for basic “ab initio” pilot training.

A Fresh Look at the Industry and Collegiate Aviation Partnership: A Discussion about the Future

The industry is experiencing a hiring spree that is unlike anything experienced during the past 30 years. The number of new pilots entering the airline industry is challenging both airlines and collegiate aviation in bot…

Calculating the Cost of Pilot Turnover

Controlling costs is a critical ingredient in achieving profitability in the airline industry. Typically, labor costs are the second highest cost category for airlines.

Session 4: Pilot Supply Problem

A total of eight presentations will be given during this session (split into two segments with a break in-between). The pilot supply problem topics will include issues on pilot shortage and hiring cycles in the rapidly c…

Pilot/Manpower Shortage in Business Aviation

Of late, there has been much discussion about the pilot shortage in both commercial and business (professional) aviation. Some statistics show that neither the airlines nor the business community will have enough employe…

Morning Featured Speaker — Current State of Military and Civilian Pilot Pipelines

Discussion will focus on the status of the U.S. military and civilian pipelines as of the summer 2017. Specifically, the presentation will cover the current pilot flows within the RAND pilot pipeline model.

Current State of Military and Civilian Pilot Pipelines

Discussion will focus on the status of the U.S. military and civilian pipelines as of the summer 2017. Specifically, the presentation will cover the current pilot flows within the RAND pilot pipeline model.

Morning Welcome

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Evening Keynote Speaker — General Aviation: Cornerstone of the Aviation Ecosystem

Keynote Speaker Welcome

Hangar Cookout

Hangar Cookout Welcome

Reception, Exhibits, & Networking — Reception Sponsored by ExpressJet Airlines

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Review of Training Principles for Flight Training in Aircraft or Simulator

In human-performance-driven fields such as the social and behavioral sciences and education, there is a particular risk for a disconnect between current research and applied practice.

Augmented and Virtual Reality for In-Flight Simulator Aircraft

A brief history on in-flight simulator aircraft will be provided. Recent advancements in fused, augmented, and virtual reality will be discussed.

Low-Cost Wearable Head-Up Display for Light General Aviation

A low-cost wearable Commercial off The Shelf (COTS) Augmented Reality (AR) Head-Up Display (HUD) system is designed, successfully reduced to practice, and flight tested.

Session 3: Flight Simulation

The presentations scheduled for this session will include an eclectic array of presentations. Topics include head-up displays, training effectiveness, and virtual and augment reality.

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Differences in the Severity of General Aviation Accidents by Age: A Preliminary Examination

This research utilized the NTSB aviation accident and incident database system from 1982 to 2014 to examine differences in the severity of accidents by age for aviation accidents.