New Pilot Training Approach Focuses On Broadly Applicable Capabilities

Two pilots in aircraft cockpit while third person works on tablet and desktop

With competency-based training and assessment, instructors are learning to create new kinds of syllabi.

Credit: ALSIM Flight Training Solutions
SECOND IN A SERIES Early in his career in the 1980s, Willie Walsh, now director general of the International Air Transport Association, flew Boeing 737s for Aer Lingus. Through the recurrent training sessions and accompanying exams he received as a pilot he came to see the limits of performance...
Thierry Dubois

Thierry Dubois has specialized in aerospace journalism since 1997. An engineer in fluid dynamics from Toulouse-based Enseeiht, he covers the French commercial aviation, defense and space industries. His expertise extends to all things technology in Europe. Thierry is also the editor-in-chief of Aviation Week’s ShowNews. 

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