Marco Santana is the Founder of Orlando Tech News and former business reporter for the Orlando Sentinel. Halldale invited him to WATS to offer his impressions as a first-time attendee of the world’s largest civil aviation training event.
The US Air Force’s Agility Prime program is deliberately and cautiously advancing to inform the Service’s decisions on acquisition decisions for eVTOL aircraft. As these platforms are evaluated, important early training lessons-learned are emerging for the pilots who will operate this new generation of aircraft.
One of the more spirited exchanges during the WATS 2023 pilot training track was generated by the presentation of self-described “human performance geek” Samantha Brown, Lead Human Factors Team Member, ALPA-International, a United Airlines First Officer.
AerAware is demonstrating its next-generation Enhanced Flight Vision System (EFVS) upgrade for transport category aircraft designed to enable pilots to see clearly through common visibility obstructions like fog, rain, snow, sand and smog.
X2O Media, leading global provider of hybrid learning and collaboration solutions, introduced the advanced X2O OneRoom solution designed to support hybrid training at WATS 2023.