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Canadian Aviation Safety Seminar (CASS 2003)

15th Annual
Canadian Aviation Safety Seminar (CASS 2003)
April 14-16, 2003
Montréal, Québec

Theme: Aviation Human Resources: The Core of Our Industry.

New Visual Technologies

In the coming years, the industry will face challenges in the areas of personnel selection, recruitment, training, retention and knowledge transfer, as they relate to safety.

The challenge, regardless of the solutions adopted, will remain to manage the seamless transfer of knowledge and skills from one generation to the next, where each possesses different skills, characteristics and expectations, all the while improving safety.

Apart from the management of Human Resources, it must be recognised that new technologies are available today that can be leveraged to meet that challenge. These improved technologies should be seen as enablers and tools at the service of safety. These technologies can help in the transfer of knowledge and skills from one generation to the next. For example, the new generation of pilot have mastered the use of computers, of the Internet and are very familiar with video games. The fast evolutions in these areas are extraordinary. It is crucial for the industry to be open and be adaptive to benefit from these improvements.

With the advent of powerful graphic cards for regular PCs and laptops, we have witnessed and explosion of video games and special effects that are by today’s standard, visually incredibly realistic. In parallel, the Internet is now part of our everyday life with expanding use and expanding bandwidth. These technologies are being put into use in our industry and more specifically the capability of delivering training with the more realistic visual scenes through the Internet.

Looking more specifically at safety, the above technologies can contribute in improving the training to prevent (Approach & Landings Accidents) ALAs and (Controlled Flight Into Terrain) CFITs. This prevention would entail bringing together lessons learned from previous incidents, the Internet, powerful yet affordable graphics technology and satellite imagery in order to provide training for improved positional awareness and preparedness in cases of difficult approach and landing situations.

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2010-05-03

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