Blogs


The Standardised Instructor’s Operating System (IOS)
24 February 2026

Training, more than just ticking the box
30 October 2025

A Matter of an Opinion: Everyone has One
21 August 2025



Under my virtual cloud, saying goodbye to simulator computers
11 February 2025

Sounds like the Last Frontier
20 November 2024

Royal Aeronautical Society Flight Simulation Group (FSG)
1 October 2024



Reasons to be cheerful – SIM PART
24 April 2024

A Dedicated Follower of Change – Keeping up-to-date
27 March 2024

The end of recurrent evaluations?
7 February 2024

To Qualify or to Certify, that is the Question
10 January 2024

Writing a business case: making the numbers add-up
21 December 2023

Who’s Going to Maintain our Simulators?
22 November 2023

What have the Aircraft Manufacturers ever done for us?
14 September 2023

Why go to Industry Conferences?
17 August 2023

I don’t need spares – I have a five-year warranty
14 July 2023

FFS in Motion, or not
14 June 2023


Mirror, mirror on the… FSTD
29 March 2023


Accepting your FSTD – On Site Acceptance (OSA)
7 December 2022

A Hommage to Arinc Report 610
20 October 2022

Simulator Technician Training
15 September 2022

Installing a FFS
11 August 2022

The Man from the Ministry cometh (Qualification)
8 June 2022


QTGs a force for good or evil?
6 April 2022

Choosing a visual system
2 March 2022

Rest In Peace (RIP) the Full Flight Simulator – A Requiem
15 December 2021

The Times are for Moving
17 November 2021

The Source Code conundrum
1 September 2021

Do I really need a maintenance team?
4 August 2021

The (Sim Ops) Field Service Representative
7 July 2021

Standing on the shoulders of giants
9 June 2021


View from the other side of the pitch
14 April 2021

Let’s Get Local
17 March 2021

Why spend money on a TDM support contract?
17 February 2021

EASA NPA 2020-15 – Reinventing The Wheel?
20 January 2021

Goodbye and Good Riddance to 2020
31 December 2020


Product Loads – the good, the bad and the ugly
18 November 2020

Accepting your FSTD – Factory Acceptance
21 October 2020

My TDM just died. How do I keep my FSTD alive?
23 September 2020

Managing Flight Simulation Training Device Obsolescence
26 August 2020

The Case for Localised Training
12 August 2020

Establishing your Maintenance Team
29 July 2020

Accepting your FSTD – Part 1: an Overview
14 July 2020

Rest In Peace (RIP) the FFS?
1 July 2020

Designing your training facility
17 June 2020


Writing a Request for Proposal
18 May 2020