The need of the hour is a combination of fuel efficiencies, green technology, improvements in air traffic management and biofuels. Shortfall in emissions can be covered by large-scale carbon offsetting.
Aviation is skills based industry and towards this requirement, training goes hand in hand. Commercial airline pilots may once have been assessed wholly on their manual flying (aircraft handling) skills; nowadays pilot assessment is predominantly based on Systems and Crew Management, where management of the automated systems and…