SMi's 2nd annual Military Flight Training conference

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SMi Presents the 2nd Annual
MILITARY FLIGHT TRAINING
18-19 SEPTEMBER 2013 HOLIDAY INN REGENTS PARK CENTRAL LONDON
PLUS TWO HALF DAY PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOPS
17th September 2013 | Holiday Inn Regents Park | London, UK
B: Military Flight Training in Times of
Austerity
Workshop leader:
Mr Roger Axelsson, Managing Director,
Airline Management AS
13.30 – 17.30pm
A: Integrated Assessment in Training
Workshop Leader:
Captain Tor Krokstad, CEO,
Mr Jon Lars Syversen, Consultant,
HUCON GLOBAL
09.00 – 13.00pm
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CONFERENCE CHAIRMAN:
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Unmanned Experts
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Attend this event to...
• HEAR presentations on the
practical experiences and
challenges faced by key
speakers involved in Military
Flight Training
• ANALYSE how different
organisations and nations
provide flight training and
what can be learnt through
international cooperation
• EVALUATE the different
viewpoints on synthetic
training and assess the
options available in full,
part-task, and integrated
and constructed simulation
• UNDERSTAND the evolution
of pilot training on rotary,
fixed wing and UAS aircraft
and the increasing role of
human factors in pilot
training
Major General Tom Henry Knutsen, Director International Relations,
Norway MoD
Major General Pascal Valentin, Commander,
European Air Transport Command
Colonel Simon Diggins, DACOS Mission Support and Training, Joint Forces
Command, UK MoD
Colonel Giorgio Seravalle, Helicopter and Airlift Training Capability,
Italian Joint Force Headquarters
Colonel Peter Trierweiler, Head of Flight Training,
Austrian Air Force
Wing Commander Mike Allport, Head of International Training,
RAF
Wing Commander Dan Beard, OC IV Squadron,
RAF
Lieutenant 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 Army
Squadron Leader Don Mackintosh, Atlas (A400M) Training Officer, Flight
Simulation and Training Project Team, DE&S UK MoD
Mr Andrew Gray, Helicopter Projects Manager,
European Defence Agency

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8.30
REGISTRATION & COFFEE
9.00
Chairman'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
9.40
Overview 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
10.10
Distributed Interactive Simulation and Control of Collective Aerial
Operations
• 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 unmanned
components
• The role of distributed interactive simulation in gradual transition to
unmanned cooperative systems
• Simulated and live scenarios of intelligent aerial swarming and
swarm-against-swarm fight in SGT
Mr Peter Sapaty, Director of Distributed Simulation and
Control, Institute of Mathematical Machines and Systems
10.40
MORNING COFFEE
11.10
Evidence-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
benefits
Dr Anne Helsdingen, Director, Research and Consultancy
institute, Effat University
11.40
Simulation - 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
12.10
International 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
12.40
NETWORKING LUNCH
14.00
Overview of a multinational training opportunity (EATT) & a
multinational 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 European
Advanced Airlift Tactics Training Course (EAATTC) especially
dedicated to tactical transport aircrews.
Major General Pascal Valentin, Commander, European Air
Transport Command
14.30
UK 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
15.00
AFTERNOON TEA
15.30
European 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
16.00
In 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
16.30
Chairman's Closing Remarks and Close of Day One

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8.30
REGISTRATION & COFFEE
9.00
Chairman's Opening Remarks
Mick Davidson, Tactical UAS SME,
Unmanned Experts
OPENING ADDRESS
9.10
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 Training
Institute, Austrian Aviation and Air Defence School
9.40
Hawk 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
10.10
The 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 training
for 4th gen fighter pilot.
• Future requirements
• Downloading or not (from 4/5th gen fighter to phase 3/4)
Lieutenant Colonel Jonas Rohlen, Commanding Officer Flying
Training School & Wing Commander Flying, Swedish Air Force
Air Combat School
10.40
MORNING COFFEE
11.10
The ‘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 International
Relations, Norway MoD
11.40
The 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 Transport
operational 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 Training
Capability, Italian Joint Force Headquarters
12.40
NETWORKING LUNCH
14.00
Swedish 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 Commander
Flying NH90 & A109LUHS, Swedish Armed Forces Helicopter
Wing
14.30
Specialist 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 Aviation
Management
15.00
Human Factors Training for NVG Operations
• The Degraded Visual Environment
• Misperceptions & risk management
Squadron Leader (Retd.) Douglas Vine, Director,
VCS
15.30
AFTERNOON TEA
16.00
Training 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 Safety
Officer, Royal Netherlands Army
16.30
UAS 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 a
course
Mick Davidson, Tactical UAS SME,
Unmanned Experts
17.00
Chairman's Closing Remarks and Close of Day Two

4. HALF-DAY PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOP A
17th September 2013
09.00 – 13.00pm
Holiday 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 particular
focus on the increasingly important role of human
factor integration and the development of individual
non-technical skills. In doing this, the workshop will
highlight the current obstacles in current training and
assessments and will identify the advantages of
human factor integration within a successful and
effective 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 pilot
for 30 years with broad experience from
the airline industry. His training background
extends from simulator training, line training
of pilots, leadership training of new
commanders, human factor training of
cabin crew, pilots, technicians, and various other
airline personnel. He has specialised in Human Factors
and is also involved with other industries on the subject.
He has developed training for maritime training
facilities and is used as a speaker in the
pharmaceutical industry throughout Europe on safety
and risk assessment.
Jon Lars Syversen is a psychologist with 25
years of experience as consultant for the
airline industry and air force. He has worked
for a range of different companies, from
small operators to major airlines, flying fixed
wing and helicopters. His main experience
is from pilot selection and with CRM-training,
Commander-, Supervisor-, Instructor-courses. He has
also trained CAA inspectors and been engaged in
leadership development programs for a wide range of
industries and professions. He is especially dedicated to
the practical consequences of values, attitudes and
cultural issues that contribute to individual professional
successes and safety in risk operations.
About HUCON Global
HUCON Global specializes on human factors. The main
focus is to bring the concept into training of personnel
operating in high-risk environments. Assessing human
performance is becoming increasingly important since
procedures and technology are getting more
complex. The company is working with this in aviation,
the maritime industry and in medicine.

5. HALF-DAY PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOP B
17th September 2013
13.30 – 17.30pm
Holiday Inn Regents Park, London
Military Flight Training in
Times of Austerity
HOSTED BY:
Overview:
The workshop host will commence with his view of
some of the strategic challenges for future military
flight training, followed by a discussion, and
proceed with the role of private financing and
operation of trainings centre’s as a means of
complementing public financing. The workshop will
identify some untraditional sources of private
funding, and will finish with a casestudy and a
discussion to sum up the main issues.
Why you should attend
Austerity adds to the management challenges of
financing military capabilities, including training and
preparedness.
• 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 & Coffee
14.00 Opening remarks and introduction
14.10 What? The challenges and changes for the
future training centre
14.50 When is private financing 'smart defence'?
15.30 Afternoon tea
15.50 Who can provide the capital and the
expertise?
16.30 How can a private/public training centre
be financed an operated? A case study
17.10 Discussion and summary
17.30 Close of Workshop
About the workshop host
Roger Axelsson is the managing direcor of
Airline Management AS. He has 35 years
experience from managing air operations
and projects. His education is within
aeronautical science, air operations and
training and general management (MBA)
with experience as commercial pilot, chief pilot
ambulance services, airline pilot, quality and safety
manager at offshore large helicopter ops., VP Flight
operations with scheduled and charter passenger
and cargo ops., and a broad spectrum of projects
from defence industrial cooperation projects to
establishing hospital services and logistics supply lines
in crisis areas. Most relevant for this workshop: how to
establish innovative financing- and service provision
solutions.
About the organisation:
Airline Management AS is based close to Oslo
Gardermoen airport, Norway. It is engaged in project
development, often as risk share partner, with a group
of experienced specialists within military and civilian
aerospace projects, including innovative financial
solutions. Personnel xperience include military and
civilian multi-role/quick-change aircraft operations,
flight training management, aircraft conversions and
mission adaptations, medevac, passenger-, cargo
and combi operations, arctic, short-field, hot and high
operations, quality and safety management in air
operations, multi-role equipment development, and
also asset and project financing.

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