Security and safety training is suddenly a hot topic. When NBAA holds its convention next month, it is offering nearly a dozen new informational sessions that will address safety, security and business aircraft operations in today’s environment. Air Security International, which had dropped a series of one- and two-day security training seminars in 1996, citing “a lack of demand,” is now receiving inquiries from flight departments as to the availability of such training.
At Richard Kobetz & Associates’ Executive Protection Institute, which specializes in corporate protective services, the number of queries into the company’s 110-hr introductory security and safety training course has quadrupled in the past month. At FlightSafety International, program manager Beth Ganley said the New York-based pilot and flight attendant training company is considering adding self-defense as one aspect of its security syllabus.
