Author Archives: peakpacific

Peak Pacific Portfolio Expansion (CAT Magazine Interview)

This 16 July, Civil Aviation Training Magazine’s Group Editor Marty Kauchak completed a brief, but wide-ranging, interview with Kishor Mistry, Group CEO at Peak Pacific, and Robert Torio, the company’s Manager Client Engagement & Business Development. While the Hong Kong-based industry expert introduces enhanced and new products from its current competencies, it is also exploring […]

Flight Simulator Training: My wish list as Trainee, Instructor, and Designer

Guest post by Alain Heddebaut, Retired Captain and Flight Instructor Over the past few decades, enormous progress has been made in developing more and more advanced flight simulators. In parallel, training methodologies also evolved. Instructors are better trained and the training programs are better adapted to the operators’ environment. The result is that today flight […]

First Among Equals – CAT Awards 2018 Announced at WATS2018

April 17, 2018, Orlando, Florida, USA: Every year in April, the Peak Pacific Group team joins hundreds of aviation industry training professionals in making the annual trip to Orlando, Florida, to attend the World Aviation Training Summit (WATS) organised by Halldale Group (publisher of the CAT Magazine). Like other exhibitors and speakers and delegates, we […]

“You Can’t Just Throw Technology at a Training Problem – You Have to Have Curriculum, You Have to Have Instructional Design” – Chris Lehman

31 October 2017, EATS2017, Estrel Convention Centre, Berlin: He is the ‘Editor in Chief’ of Halldale Media’s iconic aviation industry magazines – Civil Aviation Training (CAT Magazine) and Military & Simulation Training (MS&T). Unassuming and rather publicity shy for a famous industry trade journalist, Christopher Lehman is a whole lot more than an aviation journalist. Epitomising the […]

“Massive Potential for Online Training Technologies; The Critical Point is Going To Be The Measurement” – Andy Smith

Aviation Training is estimated to be a 6 Billion USD industry, which is growing very rapidly. While a healthy 12% of this market-size belongs to Training Hardware products (Simulator, Training Devices sub-segment), the industry portfolio includes a very diverse range of Services, Products and Emerging solutions. We had a chance to catch up at length […]

Microlearning: Bite Size Learning

Guest post by Deepon Mitra, Senior Instructional Designer, Peak PacificAttention spans are increasingly becoming inversely proportional to technological advancement. Research shows that attention loss had led to a digital skills gap that costs around $10 million in losses per 1,000 employees, in a country with a GDP similar to the US. What the millennial workforce […]

Shining the Light on Human Trafficking

Guest post by Sherry Saehlenou, Principal, Avion Training LLC The previous post focused on the issue human trafficking and the need to shine a light on the global exploitation of human beings. Fortunately, there are many NGO workers, lawmakers, police officers, and concerned citizens who are committed to ending modern slavery. Many local, governmental, and national agencies […]

Are you aware of the modern-day slaves in our midst?

Guest post by Sherry Saehlenou, Principal, Avion Training LLC By now you may have heard of human trafficking (also called trafficking in persons) as it is coming to the forefront as one of the biggest human rights issues of our time. It is often referred to as modern-day slavery. Many agencies and organizations are starting […]