MAF invests in training and professional development
To secure enough skilled staff for the future, MAF is investing in training. Alongside a new flight simulator in the Netherlands from summer 2026, the further training of aircraft mechanics is a key focus – essential for safe flight operations.
The new simulator is a faithful replica of the Caravan, the aircraft MAF uses most often, and allows realistic training – from pilot standardisation and instrument flying through to type conversions. More flying hours can therefore be completed in the simulator and fewer in a real aircraft – a contribution to greater safety, lower costs and a smaller ecological footprint.
New technologies such as virtual and mixed reality elements will make practising procedures and checklists even more flexible and efficient in future – so that MAF pilots are ideally equipped for their work in remote regions.
Teamwork for safe flights
But no pilot takes off without a well-drilled team. Safe flight operations depend heavily on the skill and commitment of the aircraft mechanics – they are the ones who keep the aircraft in good order. The interplay between pilots, mechanics and ground teams is like a finely tuned clockwork in which the parts mesh precisely.
It is all the more pleasing that in the 2025 reporting year two MAF Switzerland aircraft mechanics, Onias Glausen and Samuel Maier, successfully completed their training – an important contribution to strengthening our work worldwide.
