CAE SimuFlite’s Bill Dolny terms the small flight department “the bread and butter of the NBAA organization.”

FlightSafety International’s Greg McGowan, vice president, operations, believes the Europeans “have really gotten onto something” with the EASA perspective on phased recurrency, which spreads recurrent training requirements over a three-year period, much like a progressive maintenance scheme distributes elements of an inspection over 50-hour increments.

One of the things that sticks in Ken Qualls’ craw is the lack of training at the major providers in new cockpit technology.