For the international traveler, the world has always been an unpredictable place; crime, political instability, corruption, and terrorism have always been potential threats that travelers have had to negotiate.
2020 saw the addition of a whole new dimension of risk with the COVID-19 Pandemic, and as entry restrictions shift, the need for timely and actionable intelligence has never been greater.
Location-specific intelligence briefs remain the frontline tool available to help operators and travelers make informed, safe, and cost-effective decisions.
Providing not only an overview of the situation on the ground, intelligence briefs should also include suggested steps that can be taken to help minimize a traveler’s risk exposure.
The analysis is centered around not just the location, but the profile of the traveler, the duration of their stay, and their schedule while in the given country.
These factors can have a dramatic impact on what a traveler’s risk exposure is.
A crew staying overnight, a passenger traveling on holiday, and a frontline manager on a business trip will all face different types of risks and have different needs based on their individual profile.
The components of a quality brief
A quality brief should be just that: brief.
Decision-makers are busy, and they should not have to read through a tome to learn what they need to know.
After all, you are paying for the writer’s expertise, not necessarily the written word.
Briefs should get right to the point and tell the reader upfront what the risks are and what they can do about them.
The document should then contain supporting information for the conclusion drawn such as explaining what crime is like, what the COVID-19 situation is, etc.
Finally, some emergency contact information should be provided just in case it’s needed.
Things like the emergency response phone number or the contact information for the nearest diplomatic mission.
While the brief is meant to assist in planning the trip, it should be something that can be taken with the traveler so this information can be accessed.
The UAS Risk Mitigation team can customize our briefs to ensure that our customers are receiving the information they need to protect their passengers and crew.
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Instructor Pilot for 30 West IP
Mitch is the CEO of 30 West IP where he is also an instructor providing pilot training on international procedures. With an illustrious career of over 34 years in the cockpit, Mitch has acquired over 13,000 hours of flight time flying worldwide, with over 9,000 hours of this in Challenger and Gulfstream aircraft. He is an experienced safety officer and was also an IS-BAO project manager for a fortune 500 flight department. He has presented on Safety and Operations topics at the NBAA International Operators Conference and the Canadian Business Aviation Association Convention and is currently on the NBAA International Operators Committee and serves as the North Atlantic Regional Lead. Mitch is also a member of an FAA working group on General Aviation International Authorizations and Tabletop Exercises (GIATE). He was recently selected to represent IBAC as a member of the ICAO Personal Training and Licensing Panel (PTLP) and was also recently named as a 2020 recipient of the NBAA Tony Kern Professionalism in Aviation Award for his contribution to the business aviation community.
Henry ‘Duke’ LeDuc
Director Of Operations, Americas, UAS International Trip Support
Duke has been a dearly respected member of UAS Americas team and the UAS global family for more than five years. A safety-oriented, FAA-licensed aircraft dispatcher, he oversees all of the operations of the elite UAS Operations Team. With twenty-five years of experience in aviation overall with more than fifteen years of experience in international flight planning and VVIP trip coordination, he is responsible for the development of the dispatch training program and involved in the strategic development of UAS Americas. With a myriad of rich aviation experience behind him, he has extensive experience in worldwide operations with both corporate and charter environments, including seven years as Operations/Dispatch Manager in an industry-leading, Fortune 500, IS-BAO Stage III Certified corporate flight department. Duke is frequently asked shares his knowledge at major industry events and is currently serving on the NBAA’s International Operators Conference (IOC) Planning Committee.
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