SMi presents the 4th annual conference on...

PLUS ONE INTERACTIVE HALF-DAY PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOPTuesday 15th September 2015, Marriott Regents Park Hotel, London UK

Increasing Mission Effectiveness and Success in an Increasingly Uncertain World Through Full Crew Training

Workshop Leader: Andy Furness, Founder/CEO, Amber Tiger Aviation (UK) Ltd

13.30 - 17.30

16th- 17th

SEPT2015

Tactical Air Training Strategies to Shapethe Fighter Pilots of the Future

Military FlightTraining

Register by 29th May and recieve a £300 discountRegister by 30th June and receive a £200 discountRegister by 28th August and receive a £100 discount

BENEFITS OF ATTENDING:• Examine the impact of cutting edge

technological advances in simulation andtraining for the fighter pilot of today

• Hear from experienced presenters from globalmilitaries spanning the UK, Europe and USA  asthey discuss the hottest developments in theindustry

• Listen to national and international real life casestudies showcasing pilot training and simulationstrategies to survive in a hybrid war

• Discuss and review  latest updates on tacticalfast jet training approaches and strategies tomaximize operational effect

• Focused sessions spotlighting future trends inpilot and instructor training to enhance thelearning process

CHAIRMAN: Air Commodore Rick Peacock-Edwards

CBE AFC FRAeS FCIM In Command Ltd.

KEY SPEAKERS INCLUDE: Major General, Tom Henry Knutsen, Former

Commandant of the Norwegian DefenceUniversity College and the RNoAF Academy, Royal Norwegian Air Force, Ret.

Brigadier General Philip Garbutt, Director GeneralAir Force Development, Royal Canadian Air Force

Captain Bjorn Persson, Head of Education Programmes,Air Combat Training School, Swedish Armed Forces

Lieutenant Colonel Jerome Lacroix Leclair, Commander,Flying Schools Command, French Air Force

Lieutenant Colonel Christoph Hegele, Director ofSimulators and Simulation, German Army AviationSchool, German Armed Forces

Colonel Joseph William DeMarco, Commandant atAir Command and Staff College, United States Air Force

Wing Commander Paul Moss, SO1 ISTAR Training,ISTAR Force Headquarters RAF Waddington

Paul Livingston, Managing Director, Ascent FlightTraining

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Military Flight Training Day One | Wednesday 16th September 2015

8.30 Registration & Coffee

9.00 Chairman's opening remarks

Air Commodore Rick Peacock-Edwards CBE AFC FRAeS FCIM

In Command Ltd.

OPENING ADDRESS

9.10 Ascent - partnering in flying training

• How Ascent works with the UK MOD and Armed Services to

deliver UKMFTS

• Partnering principles to facilitiate successful delivery

• The roadmap to the completed UK MFTS service

Paul Livingston, Managing Director, Ascent Flight Training

FAST JET AND FIGHTER PILOT TRAINING

9.50 Lead in fighter training - a new approach

• Stress management in a learning situation

• Reviewing learning based on definition of competence

• Network learning... who and what is in the network?

Captain Bjorn Persson, Head of Education Programmes,

Air Combat Training School, Swedish Armed Force

10.30 Morning Coffee

11.00 Pilot transformation: tactical expert to operational master

• We train stellar pilots, but how do we educate them to

become operational masters and eventually strategic

decision makers?

• Education is key: agile, anticipatory leaders who can make

bold audacious operational level decisions

• Educating today’s leaders to solve tomorrow’s problems

• Advancing airpower thought and theory one leader at a

time...

Colonel Joseph William DeMarco, Commandant at Air

Command and Staff College, United States Air Force

11.40 A briefing from the Italian Air Force

Lieutenant Colonel Daniele Donati, 20° Squadron OCU,

Commander, 4° Wing, Italian Air Force

12.20 Networking Lunch

13.20 Identifying future trends in pilot and instructor training -maximising the learning event• Recognising the need to train NOTECH or ‘soft’ skills in harmony

with, but not at the expense of retention of traditional manualaptitude skills

• Reducing wastage rates and enhance training efficiency withincreasingly limited resources, innovation and the maximisationof each learning event through advanced debriefingtechniques

• Changing the training culture…leading research intoachieving this goal and raising the bar of future instructionaldevelopment

Squadron Leader Nick Goodwyn, MOD Liaison to CAA, Safetyand Airspace Regulation Group, Royal Air Force and CivilAviation Authority

CYBERHUMANISM AND DRONES

14.00 The age of cyberhumanism: implications for military flight and training• Visualization: augmented and virtual reality• Communication:  a natural language interface to the

machine• Automatization: working with smart systems• Personalization: personal assistant for lifelong learningDr Randall Hill, Executive Director, USC Institute for CreativeTechnologies

14.40 Afternoon Tea

15.10 Killer drones: ethical considerations• Where have all the people gone?• Issues about ‘video-game killing’ and moral distance in

contemporary conflict• The paradox of precision• Perceptions of legitimacy and the changing shape of the

moral landscape of warDr David Whetham, Senior Lecturer, Defence StudiesDepartment, Kings College London

15.50 Training challenges for the ISTAR force• Understanding the current / future mission for the ISTAR

constellation • Training smarter in a resource limited, connected environment• Total Safety. Optimizing training to maximize operational

effect and assuranceWing Commander Paul Moss, SO1 ISTAR Training, ISTAR ForceHeadquarters RAF Waddington

16.30 United World of training• Bringing the different countries to train together

to train, how can this be achieved?• Discussing if simulators may gain further

attractiveness if products are interlinked• What is the potential to be gained through

partnership with commercial vendorsColonel Joseph William DeMarco, Commandant at AirCommand and Staff College, United States Air Force Wing Commander Paul Moss, SO1 ISTAR Training , ISTAR ForceHeadquarters RAF Waddington Paul Livingston, Managing Director, Ascent Flight Training Andy Fawkes, Director, Thinke Company Ltd Captain Bjorn Persson, Head of Education Programmes, Air Combat Training School, Swedish Armed Forces

17.10 Chairman's closing remarks and close of day one

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Military Flight Training Day Two | Thursday 17th September 2015

8.30 Registration & Coffee

9.00 Chairman's opening remarks

Air Commodore Rick Peacock-Edwards CBE AFC FRAeS FCIM

In Command Ltd.

POLICY AND POSITIONING

OPENING ADDRESS

9.10 NATO air and space power- the future vector project

• The air and space power paradox

• The future strategic environment

• Consequences for future air warfare

• How to build NATO’s air and space power for the future

Major General, Tom Henry Knutsen, Former Commandant of

the Norwegian Defence University College and the RNoAF

Academy, Royal Norwegian Air Force Ret.

9.50 Hegemony and air & space power in 21st century

• Analysing the global system - assessing the current status of the

powers today

• Discussing the formulation and characteristics of hegemonic

powers

• Reviewing hegemony and air & space power

Colonel Gungor Özer, Instructor/Lecturer, Turkish Air War

College

10.30 Morning Coffee

TRAINING AND SIMULATION SYSTEMS

11.00 Exploring the Royal Canadian Air Forces’ future pilot training

and simulation strategies

• Optimizing the means by which RCAF personnel achieve and

maintain mission readiness

• Fully exploiting advances in both technology and training

methodologies for basic and advance flying training

• Characteristics of future fighter, multi-engine and rotary-wing

training streams

• Transitioning to ground-based, virtual training systems that

provide individual and collective modelling and simulation-

focused training

• Leveraging live, virtual, and constructive simulations within a

networked common synthetic environment

Brigadier General Philip Garbutt, Director General Air Force

Development, Royal Canadian Air Force

11.40 Integrated air mobility simulation • Understanding why there is a need for Integrated Air Mobility

Simulation • Who will your audience be? • Analysing what is the way forward for the future and how will

this work • An exampleLieutenant Colonel Christoph Hegele, Director of Simulatorsand Simulation, German Army Aviation School, German ArmedForces

12.20 Networking Lunch

13.20 Synthetic training on the Hawk T2• Training overview• Advanced mission planning and de-briefing system• Synthetic/live fly interactionSquadron Leader Tim Davies, Officer Commanding Standardsand Instructor Training Hawk T2 Training, IV(R) Sqn, Royal AirForce Valley

14.00 'Motion in Simulation' just how realistic and important is it? • The basics• History and studies• Comparisons and novel solutions• Future requirementsBob Young, Director, ETC Europe

14.40 Afternoon Tea

DEVELOPMENTS IN TECHNOLOGY

15.10 Towards a more efficient and cost-effective training system • A complex environment• Cognac 2016, an ambitious project to implement the

modernisation of the French flight training system• The two tier readiness policy (training differentiation) Lieutenant Colonel Jerome Lacroix Leclair, Commander, FlyingSchools Command, French Air Force

15.50 Training in the cloud - benefits, challenges and lessonslearned• Benefits of a computer cloud based service approach to

training and simulation• Cloud technology trends and lessons learned• Economic, organisational and transitional challengesAndy Fawkes, Director, Thinke Company Ltd

16.30 Chairman’s closing remarks and close of day two

Supported by

HALF-DAY PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOPTuesday 15th September 2015

13.30 - 17.30Marriott Regents Park Hotel, London UK

Increasing Mission Effectiveness and Successin an Increasingly Uncertain World Through

Full Crew Training

Workshop Leader: Andy Furness, Founder/CEO, Amber Tiger Aviation (UK) Ltd

Overview of workshop:With the advent of new technologies and ideas, thisworkshop will look into how full crew training and theeffects of sorties on individuals within the crew ultimatelyaffect mission effectiveness. This workshop will capture thetraining requirements and solutions allowing yourorganisation to embrace strategies to increaseeffectiveness in an ever uncertain, changing world.Why you should attend:

Attendees will be involved in discussions and briefs basedon operational experience, describing the effectivenessof crews training together for operations. The workshopwill also cover aircrew equipment, it’s affect on personneland how training can reduce mental fatigue in adynamic, stressful airborne environment.

Programme:

13.30 Registration and coffee

14.00 Opening remarks

14.10 Session 1 - Training and Educationrequirements

14.50 Session 2 - Future Aircrew Equipment and it’saffect on airborne helicopter training

15.30 Coffee break

16.00 Session 3 - Crew Resource Management andHuman Factors in the training environment

16.40 Session 4 - Group Discussion and case studies

17.20 Closing remarks

17.30 End of workshop

About the workshop host:Andy joined the Royal Navy as a helicopter Engineerbefore transferring to the Aircrewman branch and flyingin both Anti-Submarine and Search and Rescue Aircraft.On transfer to the RAF he was posted to the CH-47Chinook at RAF Odiham and spent the rest of his careertraining new crews, alongside delivering exacting airsupport to Special Forces troops globally. On leaving themilitary he was a founding partner of AmberTiger acompany specialising in full crew mission training,delivering successful training for Governments and OEMssuch as Boeing, Lockheed Martin, and AgustaWestland.

About Amber Tiger:Providing integrated specialist mission trainingfor government, commercial and militaryaviation operators globally.

Amber Tiger substantially enhances thecapabilities of your crews and aircraft, allowing you tomake better use of your assets for less, offering an idealsolution in an increasingly uncertain world.

Blending high quality ground, synthetic and live flyingtraining, allowing you to achieve your operationalobjectives with the added benefits of increased safetyand capability whilst decreasing costs and downtime.

Specialties: Helicopters, UAV's, Training, Planning andOrganising, Specialist Consultancy, Survival Instruction,Aircrew equipment design and supply.

SMi Defence and SecurityForward Planner

MAY

Defence Exports Asia-Pacific11th – 12th May 2015

Singapore

MilSatCom Asia-Pacific13th - 14th May 2015

Singapore

JUNE

International Port Security3rd – 4th June 2015

London, UK

Future Armoured VehiclesEastern Europe

22nd - 23rd June 2015Prague, Czech Republic

Helicopter TechnologyEastern Europe

24th - 25th June 2015Prague, Czech Republic

JULY

Air Mission Planning6th - 7th July 2015

London, UK

SEPTEMBER

Military Flight Training16th - 17th September 2015

London, UK

MilSatCom Latin America22nd - 23rd September 2015

Maceio, Brazil

Defence Exports30th September – 1st October 2015

Amsterdam, The Netherlands

OCTOBER

Airborne ISR26th – 27th October 2015

London, UK

NOVEMBER

Global MilSatCom3rd - 5th November 2015

London, UK

Social Media in the Defence &Military

19th – 20th November 2015London, UK

UAS19th – 20th November 2015

London, UK

Blast Protection23rd – 24th November 2015

London, UK

DECEMBER

Military Airlift & Rapid ReactionOperations

1st – 2nd December 2015Seville, Spain

MILITARY FLIGHT TRAINING Conference: Wednesday 16th & Thursday 17th September 2015, Marriott Regents Park Hotel, London UK

Workshop: Tuesday 15th September 2015, London UK

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