Conversation Aviation

Want to learn all about the risks of maintenance check flights and other activities outside your normal, day-to--day operation? This podcast with Donal Young from Technical Flight Solutions will hopefully de-mystify this important topic.

In this episode, John talks to Andy O'Shea, CEO of the Airline Pilot Club and also of the Airline Training Pilot Group about how pilots can be trained to fly in a more environmentally friendly way. This concept has lead to the development of the Environmental Airline Pilot Standard (eAPS) Multi Crew Coordination training, more information on the Air Ops Community.

In this edition of Conversation Aviation, John talks to Viktor Jagasits, Air Traffic Control Officer and Systems Monitoring And Revision Team Coordinator, Eurocontrol and Pieter van der Lubbe, First Officer B737 and Business Pilot Safety, KLM about the value of CPDLC in Cockpit/ ATC communications. We talk about what CPDLC is and the many beneftis as well as some of the common challenges such as UM79 – Cleared to – via, UM148 – When can you accept…

In this edition of Conversation Aviation we continue the discussions about Language and Communication. John talks to pilot and owner of the STAC aviation consultancy, Stephen van Houwelingen about the challenges of standard phraseology.

In this podcast, John talks to Paul Stevens from Mayflower College about the importance of effective language proficiency, both for native and non-native English speakers.

In this edition of conversation aviation, John talks to Paul Reuter from the European Cockpit Association about the importance of Safety Culture, Just Culture and trust in aviation. Without a positive culture, organisational learning is less effective and things never improve.

In this episode of Conversation Aviation, John talks to the Luxair Safety Manager Pascal Kremer about Occurrence Reporting. More specifically the challenges an organisation faces in building the right culture and helping their staff to trust the reporting system. They also talk about the process of reporting as learning for an organisations SMS rather than just to meet a regulatory requirement.

In this latest Conversation Aviation episode, John Franklin from the EASA Safety Promotion Team talks to the CAT Air Ops Domain Safety Risk Manager, Aigars Krastins, about the EASA Annual Safety Review. If you are interested to learn more about the latest accident statistics and what the key risks areas are in CAT aeroplanes - this is the one for you. https://www.easa.europa.eu/en/document-library/general-publications/annual-safety-review-2023/annual-safety-review-2023-highlights https://www.easa.europa.eu/community/topics/easa-annual-safety-review-cat-aeroplanes

In this latest edition of Conversation Aviation, John talks to pilot Rebecca Lougheed about the safety challenges she has seen this summer and what organisations and pilots can do to help manage their risks.

In this edition of the EASA Conversation Aviation Podcast series, John Franklin talks to Nuno Aghdassi from the Portuguese AIB GPIAAF about the importance of learning, how to create a learning mindset in an organisation and what lessons he has seen from recent investigations in Portugal. He also has some great thoughts on the upcoming summer season.

In this latest edition of the EASA Conversation Aviation Podcast series, John Franklin talks to Conor Nolan, the Director of Safety and Security at Aer Lingus what safety means to him and his role in getting the whole company engaged in safety from the top down.

In this latest edition of the EASA Conversation Aviation Podcast series, John Franklin talks to easyJet's Seasonal Readiness Manager Laura Watson about how they approach the different seasonal challenges throughout the year.

In this new reboot of the EASA Conversation Aviation Podcast series, John Franklin talks to the EASA's Strategy and Safety Management Director, Luc Tytgat, about the safety landscape and the challenges the industry faces over the coming years.

In this 3rd session of the Runway to Recovery we are talking about Caring for our People, Wellbeing and building trust within organisations.

In this second edition of Conversation Aviation Cycle 3 on the Runway to Recovery, John, Chris and Claudio talk about the operating safely and the top safety issues the industry faces over the coming months on 2022.

In this videocast John, Chris and Claudio talk to Claire, Juan-Carlos, Stuart about creating a culture of trust that encourages people to talk openly about safety and wellbeing.

In the first session of the Stay Safe part of Conversation Aviation, John and Claudio talk to Gemma, Miguel and Nuno about the challenges of compliance with rules, procedures and practices.

In our first live Conversation Aviation - we finish the "Be Ready" with John and Claudio talking to Björn Guðmundsson from Icelandair,  Sanda Bergmane-Behmane from Air Baltic and Yogesh Parekh from Menzies Aviation.

This week, John, Chris and Claudio talk to Cate Bichara from Skyguide, Catherin Ehrrhardt from Unitycare and Sanda Bergmane-Behmane from Air Baltic about what it really means to put staff and their wellbeing at the heart of a people centred ramp-up.

John, Chris and Claudio talk to Harry Harrad from Oxford Airport, Keiron McNeill from Loganair and Tim Kretschmer from Munich Airport about the Ramp-up challenges of having the right tools, equipment and infrastructure in place. 

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