Wavionix Software Ltd, the award winning industry leaders in air navigation software tools, have launched two new courses and released a new training schedule for 2001.             

In response to demand from existing users and colleagues in the industry, Wavionix has launched a new three-week course entitled:  "Introduction to PANS OPS".

This has been created to enable an in depth study of the ICAO doc 8168 PANS OPS chapters for which the WAVIONIX tools have been developed.  The additional time also allows the students to develop instrument procedures applying the PANS OPS philosophy.   This course is suitable for new personnel joining an established procedure design team and managers wishing to improve their PANS OPS knowledge.

In addition, "Designing Procedures in Environmentally Sensitive Areas" course is new for this year. This course concentrates on defining acceptable solutions to specific environmental issues.  These include mountainous terrain, dense industrial & residential areas, noise sensitive areas, protected national parks, military training zones, and glider areas.

Over five years ago, Wavionix set out to create a completely new training course for procedure design experts.  The training modules are based on a 4-6 week ICAO Course for DOC 8168 PANS OPS, which has been modernised from a manual paper and pen method to computer using the Wavionix Procedures Designer.  This concept enabled the users to visualise theoretical situations as they learnt on a visual training tool. 

The Wavionix Air Navigation Course (WANT) is now held over eight working days, and the training system has been updated to reflect ICAO changes and amendments for procedures design.  To date, over 100 PANS OPS experts from all over the world have been trained on this system. 

June 8-15     WANT Course / Spain

Sept 14-21    WANT Course /  UK

Oct  26-27    Advanced Course / Spain

Oct 10-11     Designing Procedures for Environmentally Sensitive Areas / Spain

Nov 5-24      Introduction to PANS-OPS / UK

In addition to the above schedule, Wavionix sends instructors to train onsite.

Says Patrick Aisher, Chief Executive Officer, Wavionix Software; "when we originally started providing training courses, they focused only on instructing people how to use our software tools.  However, over the past couple of years, as Air Navigation Authorities and Users have approached us to develop new courses, Wavionix can now provide a full range of training courses for the air navigation specialist".

May 2001