Throughout the world a significant proportion of the serious accidents reported as H&S accidents occur during aircraft turnarounds. Turnaround times have become increasingly shorter with many activities being undertaken, often by different companies. During a turnround typical activities may include: approaching aircraft with engines running; passenger disembarkation and embarkation; baggage/cargo handling; aircraft maintenance; fuelling; de-icing; catering…

What is competence? Competence can be described as the combination of existing training, skills, experience and knowledge that a person currently has together with their ability to apply them to perform any given or required task safely. A number of other factors as well as soft skills competence may also have a bearing, including attitude…

Operational Flight Data Monitoring, known more recently as Flight Operational Quality Assurance (FOQA), is probably the most important safety tool available to aviation. Essentially Flight Data Monitoring (FDM) is the exploitation of flight data to support an understanding of the various exposures, the knowledge of which, may successfully lead to the development of mitigations which…

We at Sofema Aviation Services are pleased to announce our continuous partnership with Air Arabia to deliver online training through 2016, using the SAS online training platform www.easaonline.com. “It is great news that Air Arabia have again selected Sofema Aviation Services as their online training provider and will continue to use EASAOnline.com to manage the…