reply from the editor
Dear Glen
Firstly, thank you for your email. It demonstrates that the magazine is doing its job when it promotes discussion about the best way to promote aviation safety.
There was no payment made to CASA for this content. As a general rule, we do not run advertorial, because we do not wish to compromise our editorial independence, but if we did, it would be very clearly branded as advertorial.
Training, and the quality of such training, ensuring that the pilots of the future are fit-for-task in a rapidly-changing aviation environment, is, we believe, a safety issue, and therefore an appropriate subject for Flight Safety. The article was simply the first of a series on training, and we will be looking at other options and training issues (such as glass cockpits/workload/English language) in coming articles.
To that end, we are more than happy to interview you/Melbourne Flight Training about your training philosophy/focus as part of that ongoing series.
Thank you again for your email - and your evident passion, which we share, for aviation safety,
Margo