(Posted 03rd May 2023)
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Only one day to go … 04th of May …
For once, we’ll be broadcasting on Thursday lunchtime instead of our usual Wednesday lunchtime broadcast. This Thursday May 04th, the world will be celebrating International Firefighters Day. In our special episode of the Focus Sessions, we celebrate the work and dedication of our sisters and brothers in Airport Rescue & Firefighting (ARFF). Thursday’s Focus Session will be all about realistic ARFF training that can be done with limited resources.
Work towards your certificate of attendance of the Focus Sessions
Aircraft fires don’t happen often. This means that African airport firefighters may have had limited exposure to live fire. In other parts of the world airport firefighters are part of volunteer fire fighting brigades in cities and towns and get real fire exposure there. However, such volunteer fire fighting brigades do not exist in many African countries yet. As a result, practical experience with using the breathing apparatus is often limited. Yet working with a breathing apparatus is crucial for an airport firefighter. We’ll also be looking at Virtual Reality training for firefighting: what benefits can it bring? Join our panel of our Chief Fire instructor Jan Huizing, Leonie Boskiljon, Stella Mutale from Livingstone Airport in Zambia and Kenbri’s Jos Nijenhuis.
We give away a nice cash prize of US$ 100 in each episode -but those are only available during the live broadcast, in this case – Thursday May 4th! ?
Join firefighters from across 11 African countries this Thursday!
Following demand from our viewers, we now offer the opportunity to secure a Certificate of Attendance! The criteria to qualify for a certificate of attendance are:
1) Scoring 70% or higher on the exit test of this and at least one other Focus Sessions within 48 hours of each live broadcast of an episode
2) Complete your entry in the prize draw; and
3) Attend 100% of the live broadcast event: in other words, the option to work towards a certificate of attendance is NOT available from the replays on our Youtube channel
Edition 39 of our magazine now available for download
The latest edition of Africa’s only aviation safety promotion magazine is now available for download for free, thanks to our sponsors!
Click here to visit the download page of our website.
Once you’ve downloaded the issue, you can read it offline at your leisure.
Our magazine is part of our support to you.
Read all about our trainee
Our second graduate trainee Alex Mugabo joined us in August last. The Foundation provides support to trainees for the development of various skills, including writing. An illustration of this is a blog post authored by our very own Alex Mugabo.
Click here to read all about Alex Mugabo’s first six month in this wonderful blog
And don’t forget to share your views on his LinkedIn profile.
Click here to visit Alex his LinkedIn profile
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Volunteer meeting at Amsterdam Airport
We’ll be catching catch up and streamling our collective efforts with our volunteers with meeting hosted by Dutch Air Traffic Control (LVNL) on the 23rd of May. Our first in-person meeting since the Corona pandemic.
October courses in Kigali & Nairobi
Join us in Kigali & Nairobi in March for an exciting range of courses this October. Use the voucher code above for your 10% discount – valid until the 1st of July ! You’ll find the October courses here below.
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Safety in the news
Coming together: aviation safety & sustainability
There will be different pressures on the aviation system originating from climate change, the actions to combat climate change’s impact and from actions taken to protect the environment. The identified generic types of pressures can have safety effects if the aviation
system is not resilient enough to properly manage them. Keep up to date with the latest IATA aviation environment and sustainability policy update. Click here to access the latest update.
Learning from work arounds
Local ingenuity (a.k.a workaround) is all about finding workarounds that operational staff are using to fix a problem of conflicting goals (e.g. on time performance vs. safety). A workaround is a (temporary) fix that requires a genuine solution. How do we create an atmosphere in which we can learn about those bypasses of procedures? Learn, so that we can make our industry safer?
Better understanding East African aviation
AviAssist works hard to increase research on African aviation. We are looking forward to supporting African students in completing University papers and theses on African aviation in support of the development of our industry. From outside Africa, Capt. Nele De Groote’s fascination with Africa took her from the cockpit of one of Africa’s leading airlines to a thesis at the City University of London. Capt. de Groote completed her studies in 2021 with a thesis that provide interesting insights into the state of the East African Community aviation industry. Her thesis “Is there potential for cooperation?” is now available on our website. Click here to access it.
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