Welcoming New Student

On Monday 30 Jan 2012, a new batch of students are coming to start their 2.5 years of study. The Batch 7 consists of 23 students, 22 male and 1 female, mainly from West Malaysia except for 2.

A comprehensive orientation program will be carried out to include:

a. The registration and information session.

b. Briefing by academic heads,

c. Introduction to the staff

d. get to know your colleague.

I personally will be giving 2 sessions of briefing:

- The career opportunities in aircraft maintenance

- The path to get the license.

Yangon Trip 19 Jan 2012

Our CEO is making another trip to Yangon, the capital of Burma. He is making a number of trips, sometime in group and sometime alone. Our school is trying to make sense of Yangon business.

Burma, being a ran by military teams, does not get access to technology and training especially in the aviation field. Their domestic trained airlines personnel are very limited. The engineering maintenance are being run by foreigners.

Our set up is small, we have a staff to serve our needs in Yangon and we also have a sale agent. They are assigned to look after our interest and do the marketing. We are hoping to get some students from Yangon.

So he will be back on 19 Jan and hopefully will bring in some good news.

Meeting with Civil Aviation Authority

Last week we were making a trip to the local CAA office to discuss our training program. The following is the record of the meeting

MATTERS DISCUSSED

1. Role of 147 organization

a. The Surveyor reiterated that the training provided to include the 3 elements i.e knowledge, skill and the life-aircraft experience.

b. The life aircraft experience can realized through a third party through contract and agreement.

2. Assessors/ Assessment

a. The Airworthiness Notice stipulates that assessors’ job relate to the aircraft practical experiences.

b. However the surveyor suggested that the Assessor should look at the workshop skill too. That means the practical work by the validators to be assessed by assessor.

c. To control the quality, the assessment kits to be developed.

3. License EXAM

a. The surveyor permitted the exam to be done in Kuantan.

b. The plan to be drawn for the batches to indicate the future exam. I am suggesting a rolling annual plan to drawn for the exam and the modules.

c. The Approved Training Organisation is to submit the proposed exam question and the marking scheme.

d. Exam will be conducted under supervision of the authority.

Marketing to Bangkok

On wednesday 11 Jan 2012, our ceo is off to Bangkok for another marketing trip followed by the other staff on Thursday.

Marketing is important for the survival of the company. The efforts bear unpredictable result, the last trips were to Indonesia, Sri Langka and Bangladesh. So far these did not have a single cent of return. The trip to Bangkok seen slightly odd as it consume too long a time, probably they have many customers to see or may be the preparatory program took longer time.

The rumour appeared that some of the moe personals will be involved in the discussion with the education ministry of bangkok. It will like selling of the idea of what we do in here, probably bangkok can do a similar thing. However my perception is different, as I see the people in Thailand are more advanced in the vocational education. May be some other agenda are being unfold, unknown to many.

The marketing trip to bangkok, in all good possibility will end up like those made earlier. I was amazed at the lack of preparatory work, it was short of saying.. packup you bag and go.

Use of Cheap Simulator Software For Training

Flight Simulator Software for PCs

When I went to visit the aviation school during the last audit, the auditors were impressed by the simulator games shown on our CBT or Computer Based Training. The software was meant for the PC, but what we did we connect it to projector and project it to the the big screen.

The accessories were in complete complement, it had the joystick, the engines trottles and the brake/ rudder panel. The seat was comfortable and the "pilot" can be spending hours flying his choice of aircraft and land at his selected airport.

For training purpose, it serve the value well. You can have the full view of the pilots and the overhead panel. So you can show your students what to expect on the real aircraft.

The views can be changed, you can have the aircraft external view, then you can show the control surfaces, the ailerons, the spoilers, flaps or slaps and how they respond to the different panel selection.