Aviation International News senior correspondent Ian Goold has been involved in aerospace since 1964 and in aviation media for more than 40 years. He enjoyed a 20-year career at Flight International magazine, where he was latterly air-transport editor before turning freelance in 1993. A winner of the European Regions Airline Association Hank McGonagle award for excellence in aerospace journalism and a Royal Aeronautical Society Aerospace Journalist of the Year global&nbsp;award, he has edited or contributed to aerospace and aviation magazines, special publications, and websites in Africa, Asia/Pacific, Europe, the Middle East, and North and South America. Ian entered aerospace as an apprentice at the British Aircraft Corporation at Brooklands (Weybridge), where he worked on production and final assembly lines of the Vickers Super VC10, and BAC One-Eleven , and manufacture of Concorde major sub-assemblies. He subsequently graduated from the BAC Design Training School to work in the airframe structures drawing office (including design of international future projects, such as the Panavia Tornado multi-role combat aircraft) before joining Flight International in 1973. Apart from years of reading aircraft magazines and books, his first direct contact with aviation media had come during the early 1970s when he was involved at Brooklands with the Weybridge Man-powered Aircraft Group, which designed and built the tenth aircraft to fly under purely human power. As an aviation journalist, he has worked at more than&nbsp; 50 of the major biennial&nbsp;global and regional international aerospace industry shows at Le Bourget, Farnborough, Singapore, and Dubai (having missed attending only one "Farnborough" since 1960), plus innumerable NBAA, HAI, (U.S.) AOPA, and EBACE Conventions and ERA Assemblies. His favourite aircraft is the Hawker Hunter, of which – as a schoolboy – he heard hundreds make their first flights from Dunsfold, where also on September 24, 2013, he saw the penultimate landing of the VC10 (happily involving an example of which he had witnessed the maiden takeoff in 1970) a day before the last example made the design's final flight (unless, of course....).

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Aircare Solutions Group’s training courses in crewmember emergency procedures are now available to business-aircraft operators, pilots, flight attendants, maintenance technicians and flight engineers based in Europe. Announced at last year’s EBACE show, the <a href="http://www.ainonline.com/aviation-news/ainsafety/2012-03-23/cabin-safety-bizjet-passenger-crew">Aircare Facts Training</a> program is provided through regularly scheduled safety events at a fixed-base training center in Amsterdam, where six such courses are planned for this year.


The initiative comes as many business-aircraft operators are re-evaluating whether to train in-house or to contract a third-party service, according to Aircare Solutions (Stand 468) business development and marketing vice president Martin Hamilton. He said key considerations are quality of training, operators’ investments in time and cost, and the value of learning crew-resource management techniques “away from their comfort zone.” With no such training offered in Europe (outside the commercial airline industry), Hamilton said business aviation operators in the region need to be educated about the specific application of the service, which was “established practice” in the U.S.


Aircare Facts Training, one of several specialist business units in the group, offers classroom instruction combined with practical equipment drills. The courses are claimed to meet FAA Part 135, EU-OPS, CAR 604 and IS-BAO emergency-procedures training standards.


Other Aircare Solutions Group divisions include Aircare Access Assistance (telemedical help and support), Aircare Crews (permanent and temporary employee staffing services) and Majestic Aerotech (an FAA Part 145 equipment repair station).


The new Aircare Amsterdam business-aviation training center near Schiphol Airport provides an indoor cabin simulator equipped for training in emergency procedures for land evacuations, preparation for water ditching, in-flight smoke and fire, on-board medical emergencies, handling of hazardous materials and hypoxia awareness. More than 50 such courses take place annually at Aircare’s three U.S. centers and other business-aviation locations.


Last year, Aircare Facts Training added the first of three planned mobile cabin-fire trainers to its fleet of emergency procedures simulators and water egress “dunkers.” The units permit business-aircraft crewmembers to experience in-flight fire fighting in a representative enclosed environment in which smoke and live fire are introduced from three separate locations: an enclosed lavatory, a galley and a cabin divan seating area. Crewmembers use smoke hoods, protective gear and fire extinguishers to combat fire in these spaces.


A recent Aircare innovation is introduction of the FireSock, which has been designed to help manage risk from fires involving lithium-battery-operated appliances aboard business aircraft. The product comprises a fireproof containment bag in which to transport such equipment.


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Aircare Facts Training also offers a two-day international flight-attendant cabin service-training course at the Amsterdam facility, covering cultural customs and etiquette, customer-focused cabin environments, wine and beverage service, table setting, food preparation and presentation techniques, as well as the understanding of corporate identity and preservation of company integrity.


Aircare Access Assistance offers business-aircraft operators immediate global access to certified emergency-room doctors in the air and also provides other services, such as pre-trip health, safety and security reports, medical kits and products (including defibrillators and diagnostic kits), and basic and advanced medical training. The Aircare Access service also is offered by satellite-communications service provider Satcom Direct as a standalone product.


Aircare Crews provides “hundreds” of pilots and flight attendants to U.S. corporate flight departments, while handling payroll, tax and insurance requirements. Finally, Aircare Solution Group's Majestic Aerotech unit supplies and refurbishes medical kits and aircraft coalescers.


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