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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…

This month we say hello to our instructor Florin Necula. Florin graduated Faculty of Aerospace Engineering with Polytechnic University of Bucharest and then he followed a Master Degree in Airworthiness in UK. He has been involved for the last ten years in large transport aircraft maintenance as a B1 and C certifying engineer. We asked…

Sofema Aviation Services (SAS) considers competence training as essential for the EASA CAMO Maintenance managers Introduction When we talk about competence in the area of EASA CAMO and Maintenance Management Functions we are talking specifically about the following areas – Maintenance Planning is a function of the Continuous Airworthiness Management Organisation (CAMO), Production Planning is…

This month we say hello to our managing director Steven Bentley. Steve has over 40 years experience in commercial aviation, including more than 12 years in the airworthiness department of Virgin Atlantic a major UK international airline. We asked Steve to tell us a bit more about himself. Q: Does the aviation gene run in…