Pilot Training: The Case for Identifying Global Best Practices

1. Pilot Training:The Case for Identifying Global Best Practices Robert B. Barnes Scottsdale, Arizona (USA)

2. “Are today’s airline pilots, churned out by ‘pilot mills’ that train to minimum standards, up to the task once entrusted to ex-military pilots with millions of dollars worth of intense and highly competitive training?” --AVweb, 30 Dec 2009

3. The Case for Identifying Best Practices • Do we need more regulation or simply better training? • What is the role of industry best practices in this process?

4. Achieving Competency “Competency-based training is a means of training that places emphasis on achieving benchmarked standards of performance; more precisely, training that focuses on what a person will actually be required to do in the workplace after completing a program of training.” -- Capt Gary Morrison, ICAO NGAP

5. Enabled by Appropriate Regulations and Guidance Source: ICAO NGAP March 2010 Competency-Based Training Effective Quality Assurance Effective Safety & SMS Systems Apply Industry Best Practices and Lessons Learned Use Advanced Technology Apply Instructional Systems Design Principles to Benchmark Competencies and Training Outcomes

6. Source: ICAO NGAP March 2010 Competency-Based Training Enabled by Appropriate Regulations and Guidance Effective Quality Assurance Effective Safety & SMS Systems Apply Industry Best Practices and Lessons Learned Use Advanced Technology Apply Instructional Systems Design Principles to Benchmark Competencies and Training Outcomes

7. More Regulation? “Many believe that adding more prescriptive requirements does little to confirm that a trainee has obtained the knowledge and mastered the skills required for the next generation professional.” -- Capt Gary Morrison, ICAO NGAP

8. The Bloggers Respond • “We live in a world where the bottom line and the quarterly shareholder report are the most important metrics …” • “… the best we can hope for is par, the expenditure of enough time and resources that results not in perfect safety, but enough safety so that people aren’t afraid to fly from Point A to B.”

9. The Bloggers Respond • “There seems to be an implied assumption that better practice must be more expensive practice. My experience says the opposite.” • “[If] the training provider has delivered a product that meets a training performance standard but not an operational performance standard and this could be easily demonstrated, who owns the risk?”

10. The Aviation Professional • “… be as professional as an airline pilot” • “A professional is someone who'll always take the correct path, regardless of how much additional work is involved, and regardless of whether anyone is looking.” • No matter what one flies, he or she must continuously strive to be the best pilot possible – a true aviation professional.

11. Blog Threads – A Summary • Pilot training needs to be guided by professional competence not hours • The key is training to a level of competence based upon universally acceptedbest practices • Best training practices do not need to be more expensive • There may be a liability issue training to any level other than competent • Global best training practices should be identified and shared

12. The Case for Identifying Best Practices • Do we need more regulation or simply better training? Better training based upon competency not hours • What is the role of industry best practices in this process? They are a key component of competency-based training

13. The Next Question … How do we identify global pilot training best practices?

14. Questions/Comments? For more information, please leave me your card … … or send a message to RBarnesAZ@att.net