SMi Group's Military Flight Training 2015 conference is back this September in London

1. SMi presents the 4th annual conference on...
PLUS ONE INTERACTIVE HALF-DAY PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOP
Tuesday 15th September 2015, Marriott Regents Park Hotel, London UK
Increasing Mission Effectiveness and Success in an
Increasingly Uncertain World Through Full Crew Training
Workshop Leader: Andy Furness, Founder/CEO,
Amber Tiger Aviation (UK) Ltd
13.30 - 17.30
16th-17th
SEPT
2015
Tactical Air Training Strategies to Shape
the Fighter Pilots of the Future
Military Flight
Training
Register by 29th May and recieve a £300 discount
Register by 30th June and receive a £200 discount
Register by 28th August and receive a £100 discount
BENEFITS OF ATTENDING:
• Examine the impact of cutting edge
technological advances in simulation and
training for the fighter pilot of today
• Hear from experienced presenters from global
militaries spanning the UK, Europe and USA as
they discuss the hottest developments in the
industry
• Listen to national and international real life case
studies showcasing pilot training and simulation
strategies to survive in a hybrid war
• Discuss and review latest updates on tactical
fast jet training approaches and strategies to
maximize operational effect
• Focused sessions spotlighting future trends in
pilot and instructor training to enhance the
learning process
CHAIRMAN:
Air Commodore Rick Peacock-Edwards
CBE AFC FRAeS FCIM In Command Ltd.
KEY SPEAKERS INCLUDE:
Major General, Tom Henry Knutsen, Former
Commandant of the Norwegian Defence
University College and the RNoAF Academy,
Royal Norwegian Air Force, Ret.
Brigadier General Philip Garbutt, Director General
Air Force Development, Royal Canadian Air Force
Captain Bjorn Persson, Head of Education Programmes,
Air Combat Training School, Swedish Armed Forces
Lieutenant Colonel Jerome Lacroix Leclair, Commander,
Flying Schools Command, French Air Force
Lieutenant Colonel Christoph Hegele, Director of
Simulators and Simulation, German Army Aviation
School, German Armed Forces
Colonel Joseph William DeMarco, Commandant at
Air Command and Staff College, United States Air Force
Wing Commander Paul Moss, SO1 ISTAR Training,
ISTAR Force Headquarters RAF Waddington
Paul Livingston, Managing Director, Ascent Flight
Training
www.militaryflight-training.com
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Military Flight Training
Day One | Wednesday 16th September 2015
8.30 Registration & Coffee
9.00 Chairman's opening remarks
Air Commodore Rick Peacock-Edwards CBE AFC FRAeS FCIM
In Command Ltd.
OPENING ADDRESS
9.10 Ascent - partnering in flying training
• How Ascent works with the UK MOD and Armed Services to
deliver UKMFTS
• Partnering principles to facilitiate successful delivery
• The roadmap to the completed UK MFTS service
Paul Livingston, Managing Director, Ascent Flight Training
FAST JET AND FIGHTER PILOT TRAINING
9.50 Lead in fighter training - a new approach
• Stress management in a learning situation
• Reviewing learning based on definition of competence
• Network learning... who and what is in the network?
Captain Bjorn Persson, Head of Education Programmes,
Air Combat Training School, Swedish Armed Force
10.30 Morning Coffee
11.00 Pilot transformation: tactical expert to operational master
• We train stellar pilots, but how do we educate them to
become operational masters and eventually strategic
decision makers?
• Education is key: agile, anticipatory leaders who can make
bold audacious operational level decisions
• Educating today’s leaders to solve tomorrow’s problems
• Advancing airpower thought and theory one leader at a
time...
Colonel Joseph William DeMarco, Commandant at Air
Command and Staff College, United States Air Force
11.40 A briefing from the Italian Air Force
Lieutenant Colonel Daniele Donati, 20° Squadron OCU,
Commander, 4° Wing, Italian Air Force
12.20 Networking Lunch
13.20 Identifying future trends in pilot and instructor training -
maximising the learning event
• Recognising the need to train NOTECH or ‘soft’ skills in harmony
with, but not at the expense of retention of traditional manual
aptitude skills
• Reducing wastage rates and enhance training efficiency with
increasingly limited resources, innovation and the maximisation
of each learning event through advanced debriefing
techniques
• Changing the training culture…leading research into
achieving this goal and raising the bar of future instructional
development
Squadron Leader Nick Goodwyn, MOD Liaison to CAA, Safety
and Airspace Regulation Group, Royal Air Force and Civil
Aviation Authority
CYBERHUMANISM AND DRONES
14.00 The age of cyberhumanism: implications for military flight
and training
• Visualization: augmented and virtual reality
• Communication: a natural language interface to the
machine
• Automatization: working with smart systems
• Personalization: personal assistant for lifelong learning
Dr Randall Hill, Executive Director, USC Institute for Creative
Technologies
14.40 Afternoon Tea
15.10 Killer drones: ethical considerations
• Where have all the people gone?
• Issues about ‘video-game killing’ and moral distance in
contemporary conflict
• The paradox of precision
• Perceptions of legitimacy and the changing shape of the
moral landscape of war
Dr David Whetham, Senior Lecturer, Defence Studies
Department, Kings College London
15.50 Training challenges for the ISTAR force
• Understanding the current / future mission for the ISTAR
constellation
• Training smarter in a resource limited, connected environment
• Total Safety. Optimizing training to maximize operational
effect and assurance
Wing Commander Paul Moss, SO1 ISTAR Training, ISTAR Force
Headquarters RAF Waddington
16.30 United World of training
• Bringing the different countries to train together
to train, how can this be achieved?
• Discussing if simulators may gain further
attractiveness if products are interlinked
• What is the potential to be gained through
partnership with commercial vendors
Colonel Joseph William DeMarco, Commandant at Air
Command and Staff College, United States Air Force
Wing Commander Paul Moss, SO1 ISTAR Training , ISTAR Force
Headquarters RAF Waddington
Paul Livingston, Managing Director, Ascent Flight Training
Andy Fawkes, Director, Thinke Company Ltd
Captain Bjorn Persson, Head of Education Programmes,
Air Combat Training School, Swedish Armed Forces
17.10 Chairman's closing remarks and close of day one
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Military Flight Training
Day Two | Thursday 17th September 2015
8.30 Registration & Coffee
9.00 Chairman's opening remarks
Air Commodore Rick Peacock-Edwards CBE AFC FRAeS FCIM
In Command Ltd.
POLICY AND POSITIONING
OPENING ADDRESS
9.10 NATO air and space power- the future vector project
• The air and space power paradox
• The future strategic environment
• Consequences for future air warfare
• How to build NATO’s air and space power for the future
Major General, Tom Henry Knutsen, Former Commandant of
the Norwegian Defence University College and the RNoAF
Academy, Royal Norwegian Air Force Ret.
9.50 Hegemony and air & space power in 21st century
• Analysing the global system - assessing the current status of the
powers today
• Discussing the formulation and characteristics of hegemonic
powers
• Reviewing hegemony and air & space power
Colonel Gungor Özer, Instructor/Lecturer, Turkish Air War
College
10.30 Morning Coffee
TRAINING AND SIMULATION SYSTEMS
11.00 Exploring the Royal Canadian Air Forces’ future pilot training
and simulation strategies
• Optimizing the means by which RCAF personnel achieve and
maintain mission readiness
• Fully exploiting advances in both technology and training
methodologies for basic and advance flying training
• Characteristics of future fighter, multi-engine and rotary-wing
training streams
• Transitioning to ground-based, virtual training systems that
provide individual and collective modelling and simulation-
focused training
• Leveraging live, virtual, and constructive simulations within a
networked common synthetic environment
Brigadier General Philip Garbutt, Director General Air Force
Development, Royal Canadian Air Force
11.40 Integrated air mobility simulation
• Understanding why there is a need for Integrated Air Mobility
Simulation
• Who will your audience be?
• Analysing what is the way forward for the future and how will
this work
• An example
Lieutenant Colonel Christoph Hegele, Director of Simulators
and Simulation, German Army Aviation School, German Armed
Forces
12.20 Networking Lunch
13.20 Synthetic training on the Hawk T2
• Training overview
• Advanced mission planning and de-briefing system
• Synthetic/live fly interaction
Squadron Leader Tim Davies, Officer Commanding Standards
and Instructor Training Hawk T2 Training, IV(R) Sqn, Royal Air
Force Valley
14.00 'Motion in Simulation' just how realistic and important is it?
• The basics
• History and studies
• Comparisons and novel solutions
• Future requirements
Bob Young, Director, ETC Europe
14.40 Afternoon Tea
DEVELOPMENTS IN TECHNOLOGY
15.10 Towards a more efficient and cost-effective training system
• A complex environment
• Cognac 2016, an ambitious project to implement the
modernisation of the French flight training system
• The two tier readiness policy (training differentiation)
Lieutenant Colonel Jerome Lacroix Leclair, Commander, Flying
Schools Command, French Air Force
15.50 Training in the cloud - benefits, challenges and lessons
learned
• Benefits of a computer cloud based service approach to
training and simulation
• Cloud technology trends and lessons learned
• Economic, organisational and transitional challenges
Andy Fawkes, Director, Thinke Company Ltd
16.30 Chairman’s closing remarks and close of day two
Supported by

4. HALF-DAY PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOP
Tuesday 15th September 2015
13.30 - 17.30
Marriott Regents Park Hotel, London UK
Increasing Mission Effectiveness and Success
in an Increasingly Uncertain World Through
Full Crew Training
Workshop Leader:
Andy Furness, Founder/CEO,
Amber Tiger Aviation (UK) Ltd
Overview of workshop:
With the advent of new technologies and ideas, this
workshop will look into how full crew training and the
effects of sorties on individuals within the crew ultimately
affectmissioneffectiveness.Thisworkshopwillcapturethe
training requirements and solutions allowing your
organisation to embrace strategies to increase
effectiveness in an ever uncertain, changing world.
Why you should attend:
Attendeeswillbeinvolvedindiscussionsandbriefsbased
on operational experience, describing the effectiveness
of crews training together for operations. The workshop
willalsocoveraircrewequipment,it’saffectonpersonnel
and how training can reduce mental fatigue in a
dynamic, stressful airborne environment.
Programme:
13.30 Registration and coffee
14.00 Opening remarks
14.10 Session 1 - Training and Education
requirements
14.50 Session 2 - Future Aircrew Equipment and it’s
affect on airborne helicopter training
15.30 Coffee break
16.00 Session 3 - Crew Resource Management and
Human Factors in the training environment
16.40 Session 4 - Group Discussion and case studies
17.20 Closing remarks
17.30 End of workshop
About the workshop host:
Andy joined the Royal Navy as a helicopter Engineer
before transferring to the Aircrewman branch and flying
in both Anti-Submarine and Search and Rescue Aircraft.
On transfer to the RAF he was posted to the CH-47
Chinook at RAF Odiham and spent the rest of his career
training new crews, alongside delivering exacting air
support to Special Forces troops globally. On leaving the
military he was a founding partner of AmberTiger a
company specialising in full crew mission training,
delivering successful training for Governments and OEMs
such as Boeing, Lockheed Martin, and AgustaWestland.
About Amber Tiger:
Providing integrated specialist mission training
for government, commercial and military
aviation operators globally.
Amber Tiger substantially enhances the
capabilities of your crews and aircraft, allowing you to
make better use of your assets for less, offering an ideal
solution in an increasingly uncertain world.
Blending high quality ground, synthetic and live flying
training, allowing you to achieve your operational
objectives with the added benefits of increased safety
and capability whilst decreasing costs and downtime.
Specialties: Helicopters, UAV's, Training, Planning and
Organising, Specialist Consultancy, Survival Instruction,
Aircrew equipment design and supply.

5. SMi Defence and Security
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MAY
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11th – 12th May 2015
Singapore
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13th - 14th May 2015
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JUNE
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3rd – 4th June 2015
London, UK
Future Armoured Vehicles
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22nd - 23rd June 2015
Prague, Czech Republic
Helicopter Technology
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24th - 25th June 2015
Prague, Czech Republic
JULY
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6th - 7th July 2015
London, UK
SEPTEMBER
Military Flight Training
16th - 17th September 2015
London, UK
MilSatCom Latin America
22nd - 23rd September 2015
Maceio, Brazil
Defence Exports
30th September – 1st October 2015
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
OCTOBER
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3rd - 5th November 2015
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Social Media in the Defence &
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19th – 20th November 2015
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UAS
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Blast Protection
23rd – 24th November 2015
London, UK
DECEMBER
Military Airlift & Rapid Reaction
Operations
1st – 2nd December 2015
Seville, Spain

6. MILITARY FLIGHT TRAINING
Conference: Wednesday 16th & Thursday 17th September 2015, Marriott Regents Park Hotel, London UK
Workshop: Tuesday 15th September 2015, London UK
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