Where did Aircraft Maintenance come from?  In the beginning there was no maintenance requirement so it became a needs driven activity. Task which would in fact tend to be multiplied due to any findings following adverse events. We can trace regulatory driven maintenance requirements back to the 1930’s. Essentially the hard time maintenance tasks predominated…

Sofema Aviation services completed a series of training courses for Myanmar Aviation company Air KBZ.  Yangon based airline is owned by Kanbawza Bank and began operations with a Yangon-Bagan-Nyaung Oo-Mandalay-Heho-Yangon flight on April 2, 2011. The company operates a fleet of 6 ATR’s. In the training program, delivered by SAS MD, Mr. Steve Bentley included the…

Sofema Aviation Services (SAS) has been selected to deliver Safety Management System (SMS) training program to Air Serbia (Etihad partner Airline). Sofema Aviation Services is pleased  to announce the signing of a contract for the delivery of multiple Aviation Safety Management System training courses to Air Serbia – one of the Balkan Regions foremost airlines….

What is confidential reporting? Confidential report allows for the raising of awareness regard a perceived exposure (risk) to a particular hazard. Confidential reporting does not in fact replace any existing schemes rather it creates another “string to our bow” in that it provides a mechanism for reporting where the reporter is feeling in some way…