If you can afford to operate an airplane, you should be able to afford to get good, high-quality training,” Richard Shine told Business & Commercial Aviation. “We have never skimped on training or maintenance. It’s very important to budget for it.”

CAE SimuFlite’s Bill Dolny terms the small flight department “the bread and butter of the NBAA organization.”

FlightSafety International’s Greg McGowan, vice president, operations, believes the Europeans “have really gotten onto something” with the EASA perspective on phased recurrency, which spreads recurrent training requirements over a three-year period, much like a progressive maintenance scheme distributes elements of an inspection over 50-hour increments.