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Green light for LAA training courses to restart
Brian Hope says let’s work together to expand the range of LAA training courses…
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hile the function of this article is to look to the future and where I believe we need to go with LAA courses, I have always believed that the best way to proceed is to take a look back at what has been done in the past… and, most important, learn from it. In the years since the Association was started after WWII, the nature of the nation’s industry has changed radically and, from around the 1980s, globalisation has
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Above Whether you want to build or maintain an aircraft, LAA Training Courses will hopefully soon be able to once again offer you expert advice.
led to a major decline in our traditional manufacturing base. Combined with the exponential growth of digitalisation, the inevitable result is that the days when a good many of us received basic ‘hands on’ training in wood and/or metal at school, and then went on to apprenticeships in one the ‘mechanical’ industries, are long gone. Today the norm is for a builder, or potential builder, to have minimal knowledge of the skills required to build an aircraft, and probably not have experienced
