Protecting your people: always. Protecting your investment: today. Providing the Leading Edge in safety: now.
The Leading Edge program, an initiative of Bombardier’s renowned Safety Standdown program, offers Bombardier customers a comprehensive safety training toolkit, based on the aviation safety principles offered year round at Safety Standdowns across the globe. This program is exclusive to Bombardier operators.
Leading Edge consists of a Safety Management, Human Factors and Error Control program, a Fatigue Risk Management system, and Upset Recovery Training for instruction in unusual attitudes and error control in flight.
This program provides operators with tools necessary to meet many federal and international aviation safety requirements, and is the only program of its kind offered to aerospace customers. Leading Edge is ‘Standdown Delivered’ to the customer. Partners in the program include:
Convergent Performance, LLC, founded by Dr. Tony Kern, human factors expert and Safety Standdown presenter. This component offers valuable resources including pilot and maintenance reliability certification, online safety lessons, a complete SMS Toolkit which assists Bombardier operators with their existing Safety Management System. More information available here.
Alertness Solutions offers the customer a fatigue risk management system. A scientific approach to fatigue, providing scientific findings on sleep, performance and optimization of duty and rest scheduling, as well as multimedia presentations to aid operators in maintaining compliance in regulations on fatigue. Coming soon, is an online tool, iPad and PC compatible, provided for the entire crew. More information available here.
Aviation Performance Solutions (APS) completes the program by offering Bombardier operators upset recovery training for 2 pilots which feature a comprehensive Loss of Control in flight solutions via on-aircraft, computer-based, and advanced full-flight simulator. APS is the only Part 141 Flight School currently certified in the delivery of all of upset recovery, stall / spin and instrument recovery training courses worldwide. More information here.
To learn more about this innovative customer program, contact us at leading_edge@aero.bombardier.com or call 316.946.2511. Online enrollment coming soon!
