Airline Integration Course

The Aviation Institute’s Airline Integration Course (AIC) provides Commercial Pilot Licence holders with a detailed introduction to the many demands of a multi-crew cockpit and the systems and operations of modern turbo-prop and jet aircraft. For low-hour pilots or those with no commercial multi-crew experience the AIC provides excellent preparation for a candidate’s first type rating.

 This AIC is expected to be available in the first half of 2012, and will be completed over four weeks at the Aviation Institute’s Auckland Campus and Flight Simulation Centres. A summary of subject areas is listed below.

•  Human Factors

• Multi-crew roles
• Monitoring
• Situational awareness
• Workload management and automation
• Threat and error management
• Problem solving and decision making
• Teamwork

• The Role of an Airline Pilot

  • Interpersonal skills
  • Professionalism
  • Personal integrity
  • Physical integrity (health)
  • Dealing with commercial pressures

• Primary Flight Management (all phases of flight)

• Use of Operational Documents

  • Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs)
  • Quick Reference Handbook (QRH)
  • Despatch Deviation Guide, Minimum Equipment List (DDG/MEL)
  • Route Guide
  • Normal and non-normal checklists
  • Performance calculations

• Safety Management Systems

  • Operational Occurrence Reporting (OOR)
  • Just culture

• Advanced Aircraft Systems

  • Electronic Flight Instruments (EFIS)
  • Flight Management Computer (FMC) and autopilot
  • Pressurisation systems
  • Traffic Collision and Avoidance System (TCAS)
  • Enhanced Ground Proximity Warning System (EGPWS)
  • Weather radar
  • Anti-ice systems
  • Stall warning systems

• Managing Threats to Safe Flight

  • Severe environment
  • Systems failures

• 20 hours FFS per crew

 A flight-deck famil (observational flight) and visits to an air traffic control centre and operational control and planning departments of Air New Zealand are included to consolidate learning and increase awareness of the various departmental interactions of today’s professional flight crew.