New SCOPE Workshop and EATS Maintenance Stream Tackle How to Train More Engineers Without Cutting Safety Corners

A preview by Emma Vandore describes the maintenance stream at EATS 2026 and SCOPE, a new two-day workshop from Halldale and T-C-Alliance running just before the symposium. The guiding question is how maintenance can train more people, more effectively, without compromising safety. SCOPE concentrates on implementation instead of regulatory debate; moderator Claudio Marturano, T-C-Alliance's CEO and a former licensed engineer, uses EASA's Part-IS framework to illustrate how a requirement is absorbed into existing management systems and how staff are trained on it. Attendees are training managers, trainers and safety and compliance staff, who can earn certification through T-C-Alliance's accreditation scheme. Marturano contrasts the roughly five years needed to produce a licensed engineer with the shorter pilot pathway, citing his own four-year apprenticeship in Greenock. The stream's panels, with four to six speakers each, include Boeing, Airbus, ATR and EASA, and sessions cover competency-based maintenance training with speakers from Olympic Air, MBO College Airport and AERAUT. Further sessions look at AI in maintenance training, including T-C-Alliance's Maestro tool for building regulatory training content. Day two addresses digital CBTA implementation, factors beyond mandatory training, and the value of remote learning, VR and digital twins.