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Multi-Crew Pilot Upset Training Intervention Attacks COVID-19 Proficiency Impacts
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In response to COVID-19’s impact on the activity level of professional pilots operating in the multi-crew environment, APS has announced a powerful solution to reinvigorate manual handling proficiency and flight envelope awareness, and to bolster upset training skills to optimum levels. This frontline intervention is founded on APS’s industry-leading Upset Prevention and Recovery (UPRT) program augmented with a dedicated simulator-based CRM-UPRT, a self-paced online CRM course specific to challenges faced by crews in today’s operating environment, and APS’s all-new Virtual Reality UPRT. The Aviation Safety Reporting System (ASRS) indicates a substantial increase in manual handling-related incidents since March 2020, suggesting improved manual handling proficiency is essential to safe flight operations.
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Given the pressures of the coronavirus pandemic, it isn’t surprising that drinking alcohol has risen dramatically over the past year. You or someone you know has probably ordered liquor online, become very fond of ready-to-drink cocktails or thrown a Zoom quarantini party.
A spike in alcohol use, however, has also raised health concerns about a rise in heavy drinking among those particularly women who are struggling to cope as the pandemic wears on.
Total alcohol sales outside of bars and restaurants surged roughly 24 percent after the pandemic restrictions began in mid-March 2020, according to a Nielsen marketing report that NPR cited in September; sales of liquor with higher alcohol content grew by 27 percent. Drizly, an online alcohol delivery service, had a 350 percent jump in sales during the pandemic, a spokeswoman told NPR.
APS to Host Webinar Providing Insights on Every Pilot’s Invisible Threat: Human Factors
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Pilots, don’t miss APS’s webinar on Loss of Control In-flight s Invisible Fatal Threat - Human Factors, featuring renowned experts Dr. Janeen Kochan, a retired airline Captain and active Designated Flight Examiner, and Dr. Eric Groen presenting the science behind the life-threatening realities faced by every pilot on every flight.
This information is not only fascinating, but can be life-saving as pilots come to understand how to mitigate the dangerous effects of human factors. MESA, Ariz. (PRWEB) May 06, 2021 Aviation Performance Solutions LLC (APS), the global leader in Upset Prevention & Recovery Training (UPRT), is pleased to host an important aviation industry webinar featuring two renowned experts in the field of human factors in aviation:
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