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Featuring this month – Dobrica Vincic!

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November 19, 2015

Steven Bentley

This month we meet you with our instructor Dobrica Vincic. With a background of airworthiness, design, regulatory and safety oversight, especially investigation in aircraft maintenance environment, Dobrica is focused for delivery of high quality training of EASA regulations with details from years of experience in operation, maintenance, quality and safety. We asked Dobrica to tell us…

Why do we have Quality and Safety systems within our Organisations?

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November 09, 2015

sofema

The question really does invite you to consider your reasons, because for example we may say “We have Quality and Safety systems because we have to, because it is regulatory driven”. We Could equally state that “We have Quality and Safety systems because we recognise as an organisation the benefits it brings in being able…

Why are so many Aviation Safety Management Systems stillborn? Where are the Indicators?

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November 09, 2015

Steven Bentley

A discussion document raised by Steven Bentley Steven Bentley MD of Sofema Aviation Services www.sassofia.com has written and delivered more than 25 different Aviation Safety Management System training courses. In addition to having the opportunity to assess the effectiveness of SMS within a significant number of organisations and to understand where are the major challenges to…

European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) Development of Part 147 Training Needs Analysis to ensure compliance with the requirement of Part 66

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October 27, 2015

Steven Bentley

The role of the Training Needs Analysis to maintain compliance with EASA Part 147 & Part 66 requirements in a “post” Regulation (EU) 1149/2011 Note the following extract from the regulations (following significant changes introduced in 2012) In the particular case of type training courses approved on the basis of the requirements valid before Regulation…