Vladimir Risukhin is Russia's leading authority on human factors and automation in aviation. His specialties inlcude, but are not limited to, training pilots to transition from the larger aircrews of traditional aircraft to the two-person cockpits of Western planes such as the B767, the B777, and the Airbus. He has 25 years of experience in aviation instruction around the world, and has conducted dozens of automation aircraft crew training and crew resource management (CRM) courses with a focus on automation integration.