Safety Management System…
From the 8th of April 2012 the new EASA regulations will come into force. Within an interim period of 24 months FTOs/ TRTOs will have to implement a Safety Managemen System (SMS), which can be done in a step-wise process until 2014. In general, the SMS is an extension of the existing quality system in every FTO/ TRTO, the so-called SQMS, which comprises parts of safety and quality alike. It is vital that definitions of safety and awareness for saftey have the highest priority in aviation. This will be achieved by extending the Quality System Handbook with new definitions and procedures.
Alexander Schaffler
Mr Alexander Schaffler started his aviation related career in 2007 with Diamond Aircraft Industries, where he was first taking over the FSTD production line, delivery, installation and qualification process as a Project Manager of the Business Unit Simulation. He left the company as Director Marketing and Sales and launched his own consulting company for professional flight simulation in 2010 (FTD Consulting) which later cofounded the platform Flight Simulator Trader in 2013, trading independently new and used FSTDs accompanied by sophisticated services. To this date FST has sold over 75 Simulators and taken on manifold consulting assignments for simulation organisations as well as regulatory approvals of aviation organizations (AOC, ATO, FSTD, CAMO, etc.) by introducing solutions to about 140 aviation organisations.
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