Essays about: "general aviation"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 46 essays containing the words general aviation.
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1. Flying under the radar? Education for sustainable development in private pilot training
University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för didaktik och pedagogisk professionAbstract : Aim: Private pilot (PPL(A)) training has hardly received any scholarly attention from educational and sustainability science perspectives. Through an Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) perspective, the study aimed at 1) answering how sustainability and sustainable development (SD) are taught in pertinent PPL(A) theory learning material, theory lessons and practical training, 2) identifying gaps pertaining to sustainability and SD in those three components, and lastly 3) explore if and how certificated flight instructors, theory instructors and student pilots experience transformative learning during PPL(A) training, as well as what possibilities these stakeholders see in supporting transformative learning in PPL(A) training. READ MORE
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2. Being Offered an Alternative to Prosecution: The Lived Experience of General Aviation Pilots and Prosecutors
University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för Riskhantering och SamhällssäkerhetAbstract : Background To learn from incidents, it is imperative that people involved feel safe to share their complete unadulterated stories without fearing punishment. Recently, the Netherlands Public Prosecution Service has begun to offer general aviation pilots an alternative to prosecution. READ MORE
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3. Mathematical Modeling and Simulation of Cryogenic Liquid Hydrogen Storage
University essay from Lunds universitet/Kemiteknik (CI)Abstract : Liquid hydrogen is an attractive alternative to fossil fuels in the aviation industry, but storing it both before and during flights introduces many challenges pertaining to the cryogenic liquid conditions required. Having reliable models to predict the dynamical behavior inside the storage tank is therefore of great interest. READ MORE
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4. Jet Engine Recycle Model : A Case Study to Design a General Model to be Used on Jet Engines
University essay from KTH/Skolan för industriell teknik och management (ITM)Abstract : The focus on sustainability development together with the growing market of end-of-life jet engines is a reason for performing research on how to improve the recycling of jet engines. The reuse and recycling of the jet engines contributes to decreasing the need for new extracted material and processing and manufacturing new parts. READ MORE
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5. A system safety perspective of 'Gross Negligence' as introduced in regulation (EU) 376/2014
University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för Riskhantering och SamhällssäkerhetAbstract : The main finding of this research is that it is unrealistic to expect that it is possible to create one common European understanding of the boundary between acceptable and unacceptable behaviour; it is only possible to achieve one common European just culture policy if there is one common European understanding of the term 'gross negligence' as introduced in The Regulation. The importance of this finding is directly related to public trust in the legal system of the EU which, in the worst case, can be undermined. READ MORE
