Disseminating my ARP

In terms of disseminating my final product, I have already been invited to present my paper and research to the Aerospace Control Advisory Group (ACAG). For those who did not read my PADLET post, I am an Aerospace Control Officer within the Royal Canadian Air Force and my main specialty is Air Traffic Control. The ACAG is a high-ranking military group of senior Aerospace Control officers whose main purpose is to evaluate and make key decisions into the training and operations carried out by all Aerospace Control Officers within the Canadian Armed Forces. This include both domestic and international operations…combined and joint operations. One of my senior officers has already said they are interested in hearing my finding in terms of how they can better train air traffic controllers. The military spends significant resources to train just one air traffic controller, yet due to the high-stressors within the training and the equally high-standards required to pass both knowledge and practical based assessments, many students are not successful. The Aerospace Control training community has worked hard to innovate the training within the past decade in order to bring down the failure rate within the training programs. With domestic and international operational commitments on the rise and combined with a World that appears to becoming more unstable, the Canadian Armed Forces cannot afford to fail students of any trade.

One of my goals in taking on a Master’s Degree was to aid the aerospace control community in some shape or form. As I thoroughly enjoy teaching air traffic control students in all phases of training, it made sense to do an applied research project to help aid the ACAG group in making training better and students more successful. The ACAG group meets usually twice a year and I most likely will be invited once finished my Master’s to present my research project paper in an open forum with most senior level military brass within my trade. I look forward to making a difference but also completing this undertaking myself.