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MILITARY FLIGHT TRAINING18-19 SEPTEMBER 2013 HOLIDAY INN REGENTS PARK CENTRAL LONDON

PLUS TWO HALF DAY PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOPS17th September 2013 | Holiday Inn Regents Park | London, UK

B: Military Flight Training in Times ofAusterity

Workshop leader:Mr Roger Axelsson, Managing Director,

Airline Management AS

13.30 – 17.30pm

A: Integrated Assessment in TrainingWorkshop Leader:

Captain Tor Krokstad, CEO,Mr Jon Lars Syversen, Consultant,

HUCON GLOBAL

09.00 – 13.00pm

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CONFERENCE CHAIRMAN:

Mick Davidson, Tactical UAS SME, Unmanned Experts

SPEAKER PANEL INCLUDES:

Attend this event to...

• HEAR presentations on thepractical experiences andchallenges faced by keyspeakers involved in MilitaryFlight Training

• ANALYSE how differentorganisations and nationsprovide flight training andwhat can be learnt throughinternational cooperation

• EVALUATE the differentviewpoints on synthetictraining and assess theoptions available in full,part-task, and integratedand constructed simulation

• UNDERSTAND the evolutionof pilot training on rotary,fixed wing and UAS aircraftand the increasing role ofhuman factors in pilottraining

Major General Tom Henry Knutsen, Director International Relations,Norway MoDMajor General Pascal Valentin, Commander, European Air Transport CommandColonel Simon Diggins, DACOS Mission Support and Training, Joint ForcesCommand, UK MoDColonel Giorgio Seravalle, Helicopter and Airlift Training Capability, Italian Joint Force Headquarters Colonel Peter Trierweiler, Head of Flight Training, Austrian Air ForceWing Commander Mike Allport, Head of International Training, RAFWing Commander Dan Beard, OC IV Squadron, RAFLieutenant Colonel Jonas Rohlen, Commanding Officer Flying Training School& Wing Commander Flying, Swedish Air Force Air Combat School Lieutenant Colonel Pieter Mink, Airworthiness and Flight Safety Officer,Royal Netherlands ArmySquadron Leader Don Mackintosh, Atlas (A400M) Training Officer, FlightSimulation and Training Project Team, DE&S UK MoDMr Andrew Gray, Helicopter Projects Manager, European Defence Agency

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8.30REGISTRATION & COFFEE

9.00Chairman's Opening Remarks

Mick Davidson, Tactical UAS SME, Unmanned Experts

OPENING ADDRESS 9.10 Simulation and training: The current challenge• Simulation and training governance for defence• The role of simulation in training• Issues and challenges• The way ahead

Colonel Simon Diggins, DACOS Mission Support and Training,Joint Warfare Directorate, JFC

9.40Overview of the Defence Simulation Centre• The UK MoD’s approach to training and simulation• How the UK MoD are unifying strategies across defence.• The aims and future standards of the DSC

Ms Cathy Kane, LTPA Director, pDSC

10.10Distributed Interactive Simulation and Control of Collective AerialOperations• High-level Spatial Grasp Technology (SGT) for distributed simulation

and control in networked environments• Effective automatic integration of simulated and live entities under

unified control in SGT• Runtime creation of mission scenarios and their collective

interpretation by communicating manned and unmannedcomponents

• The role of distributed interactive simulation in gradual transition tounmanned cooperative systems

• Simulated and live scenarios of intelligent aerial swarming andswarm-against-swarm fight in SGT

Mr Peter Sapaty, Director of Distributed Simulation andControl, Institute of Mathematical Machines and Systems

10.40MORNING COFFEE

11.10Evidence-based learning in serious gaming• Serious games for enhancing knowledge, skills and professional

attitudes• Using commercial off the shelf games for serious purposes• Embedding games in a formal curriculum• Transfer from the game to "real" task: how to measure learning

benefitsDr Anne Helsdingen, Director, Research and Consultancyinstitute, Effat University

11.40Simulation - A Strategic Perspective • Trends in Simulation - Developments in Simulation and Current

Prospects• The Future for Simulation - How might Technology Transform Military

Training and Education• A Policy Perspective - Simulation for Decision Makers

Mr Andy Fawkes, Director,Thinke Company Ltd

12.10International flying training at RAF College Cranwell • Training offered to international partners• Current Programmes and capacity• Success rate

Wing Commander Mike Allport, International Training Officer,RAF College Cranwell

12.40NETWORKING LUNCH

14.00Overview of a multinational training opportunity (EATT) & amultinational course (EAATTC)• Develop an innovative Air Transport training opportunity within

Europe - Save flying hours- Reduce the logistical deployment

• Integrate additional training objectives: Intel, Aeromedevac (tbc),Maintenance- Develop synergies in AT environment

• Adapt the training activities to the nations requirements- Optimize the training opportunities

• Step towards a training programme combining a EuropeanAdvanced Airlift Tactics Training Course (EAATTC) especiallydedicated to tactical transport aircrews.

Major General Pascal Valentin, Commander, European AirTransport Command

14.30UK advanced jet training- 1 year on• Hawk TMk2 Capabilities in Practice• Transition to Steady State Training• Lessons Identified

Wing Commander Dan Beard, OC IV (R) Squadron,22 Group, RAF

15.00AFTERNOON TEA

15.30European collaborative training• Student throughputs are shrinking• Coalition ops are the norm• “Train as we fight” implies training as a coalition• Benefits interoperability• Finances are constrained• Irreducible cost can be shared• New technologies are agile and inexpensive (relatively)

Mr Andrew Gray, Helicopter Projects Manager, European Defence Agency

16.00In times of austerity: Training centres as private/public partnerships • What challenges and changes must the future training centre

adapt to?• When is private financing ‘smart defence’?• Who can provide the capital and the expertise?• How can a private/public training centre be financed an

operated?Mr Roger Axelsson, Managing Director,Airline Management AS

16.30Chairman's Closing Remarks and Close of Day One

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8.30REGISTRATION & COFFEE

9.00 Chairman's Opening Remarks

Mick Davidson, Tactical UAS SME, Unmanned Experts

OPENING ADDRESS9.10 The Austrian Armed Force’s new military pilot training system• A short review of the old training system• Reasons for the change• The new training system• Lessons learnt• Future challenges

Colonel Peter Trierweiler, Commander of the Pilot TrainingInstitute, Austrian Aviation and Air Defence School

9.40Hawk T2 – The graduation standard• Historic 4 FTS output standard• The Hawk T2 Sensor Simulation, Mission Planning and Debrief• The Hawk T2 Graduation standard

Flight Lieutenant Paul Heasman, Training Officer, C Flt, IV (R)Squadron, RAF

10.10The Swedish experience and concept for training fighter pilots• The Swedish experience and concept for training fighter pilotsAre

we doing it right? – 10 years of experience of basic flight trainingfor 4th gen fighter pilot.

• Future requirements• Downloading or not (from 4/5th gen fighter to phase 3/4)

Lieutenant Colonel Jonas Rohlen, Commanding Officer FlyingTraining School & Wing Commander Flying, Swedish Air ForceAir Combat School

10.40MORNING COFFEE

11.10The ‘Pivot to Asia’-consequences for future warfighting scenarios• Air Sea Battle doctrine- a new concept for warfighting• Can the ASB doctrine replace the current Air Land Battle doctrine?• Impacts of cyber and space warfare• Moving to long distance, beyond line of sight engagements

Major General Tom Henry Knutsen, Director InternationalRelations, Norway MoD

11.40The RAF Atlas Training Service• Facility Design – Mix of Training Aids• Course Design Concept – Large Aircraft Military Training• Optimization of contractor vs military involvement• Future Live vs Synthetic Training Balance

Squadron Leader Don Mackintosh, Atlas (A400M) Training Officer,Flight Simulation and Training Project Team, DE&S UK MoD

12.10 Today's challenges in acquiring and maintaining Air Transportoperational capabilities• Overview of ITAF air transport crews training and possible options

for cooperations with other nations• C130J and C27J simulator training center capabilities at PISA.• MCC training center at Pratica di mare.• Unprepared rwy training site

Colonel Giorgio Seravalle, Helicopter and Airlift TrainingCapability, Italian Joint Force Headquarters

12.40NETWORKING LUNCH

14.00Swedish Military Pilot Training on the A109 LUHS & the NH90• Swedish Armed Forces Helicopter Wing – From old to modern

cockpit in a short time• Conversion into a modern helicopter cockpit – Challenges and

how to do it • A109 & NH90 pilot training - Lessons learned• How to further develop pilot and crew training on modern

helicopters Lieutenant Colonel Stefan Stragnefeldt, Wing CommanderFlying NH90 & A109LUHS, Swedish Armed Forces HelicopterWing

14.30Specialist Helicopter Training and Requirements• Overview of skills required for specialist helicopter operations• Overview of specialist skills• Training pipeline• Training currency issues of specialist helicopter aircrew

Mr Andy Furness, Director, Consultant, Amber Tiger AviationManagement

15.00Human Factors Training for NVG Operations• The Degraded Visual Environment• Misperceptions & risk management

Squadron Leader (Retd.) Douglas Vine, Director,VCS

15.30AFTERNOON TEA

16.00Training of MUAS RAVEN operators for the Dutch Armed forces• Aim of the MUAS RAVEN training• Student population• Training philosophy• Licenses and currencies• National Operations (NATOPS)• Laws and regulations

Lieutenant Colonel Pieter Mink, Airworthiness and Flight SafetyOfficer, Royal Netherlands Army

16.30UAS Crew Training• The need for a solution

- Training standardisation for the Civil Market• Proportionality 

- The air system versus the training level requirement.• A Solution to suit existing Regulations 

- A minimum fuss driver?• A quick course overview

- A brief example to highlight considerations when designing acourse

Mick Davidson, Tactical UAS SME,Unmanned Experts

17.00Chairman's Closing Remarks and Close of Day Two

HALF-DAY PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOP A17th September 2013

09.00 – 13.00pmHoliday Inn Regents Park, London

Integrated Assessment in Training

HOSTED BY:

Overview:This workshop will discuss the challenges in the non-technical skill assessment in training, with a particularfocus on the increasingly important role of humanfactor integration and the development of individualnon-technical skills. In doing this, the workshop willhighlight the current obstacles in current training andassessments and will identify the advantages ofhuman factor integration within a successful andeffective training programme.

Agenda:8.30 Registration & Coffee

9.00 Introduction

9.10 • The classic obstacles in training and assessments• Integration of human factors in assessments• Development of individual non-technical skills

10.30 Coffee Break

11.00• Positive learning conditions and effective

training• Empirically based organizational learning• Operative goals as the core of the training

philosophy• aA new approach to simulator training

13.00 Close of workshop

About the workshop hosts

Capt. Tor Henrik Krokstad. Has been a pilotfor 30 years with broad experience fromthe airline industry. His training backgroundextends from simulator training, line trainingof pilots, leadership training of newcommanders, human factor training of

cabin crew, pilots, technicians, and various otherairline personnel. He has specialised in Human Factorsand is also involved with other industries on the subject.He has developed training for maritime trainingfacilities and is used as a speaker in thepharmaceutical industry throughout Europe on safetyand risk assessment.

Jon Lars Syversen is a psychologist with 25years of experience as consultant for theairline industry and air force. He has workedfor a range of different companies, fromsmall operators to major airlines, flying fixedwing and helicopters. His main experience

is from pilot selection and with CRM-training,Commander-, Supervisor-, Instructor-courses. He hasalso trained CAA inspectors and been engaged inleadership development programs for a wide range ofindustries and professions. He is especially dedicated tothe practical consequences of values, attitudes andcultural issues that contribute to individual professionalsuccesses and safety in risk operations.

About HUCON Global

HUCON Global specializes on human factors. The mainfocus is to bring the concept into training of personneloperating in high-risk environments. Assessing humanperformance is becoming increasingly important sinceprocedures and technology are getting morecomplex. The company is working with this in aviation,the maritime industry and in medicine.

HALF-DAY PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOP B17th September 2013

13.30 – 17.30pmHoliday Inn Regents Park, London

Military Flight Training inTimes of Austerity

HOSTED BY:

Overview:

The workshop host will commence with his view ofsome of the strategic challenges for future militaryflight training, followed by a discussion, andproceed with the role of private financing andoperation of trainings centre’s as a means ofcomplementing public financing. The workshop willidentify some untraditional sources of privatefunding, and will finish with a casestudy and adiscussion to sum up the main issues.

Why you should attend

Austerity adds to the management challenges offinancing military capabilities, including training andpreparedness.• Discuss the strategic context for military flight

training• Understand some of the benefits and limitations

of private financing• Explore new roles for industry and public sector

partnerships• Get insight from a case study

Agenda:

13.30 Registration & Coffee14.00 Opening remarks and introduction14.10 What? The challenges and changes for the

future training centre14.50 When is private financing 'smart defence'?15.30 Afternoon tea15.50 Who can provide the capital and the

expertise?16.30 How can a private/public training centre

be financed an operated? A case study17.10 Discussion and summary17.30 Close of Workshop

About the workshop host

Roger Axelsson is the managing direcor ofAirline Management AS. He has 35 yearsexperience from managing air operationsand projects. His education is withinaeronautical science, air operations andtraining and general management (MBA)

with experience as commercial pilot, chief pilotambulance services, airline pilot, quality and safetymanager at offshore large helicopter ops., VP Flightoperations with scheduled and charter passengerand cargo ops., and a broad spectrum of projectsfrom defence industrial cooperation projects toestablishing hospital services and logistics supply linesin crisis areas. Most relevant for this workshop: how toestablish innovative financing- and service provisionsolutions.

About the organisation:

Airline Management AS is based close to OsloGardermoen airport, Norway. It is engaged in projectdevelopment, often as risk share partner, with a groupof experienced specialists within military and civilianaerospace projects, including innovative financialsolutions. Personnel xperience include military andcivilian multi-role/quick-change aircraft operations,flight training management, aircraft conversions andmission adaptations, medevac, passenger-, cargoand combi operations, arctic, short-field, hot and highoperations, quality and safety management in airoperations, multi-role equipment development, andalso asset and project financing.

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