Thailand's aviation regulator makes Boeing's competency-based training system available across its flight schools

The Civil Aviation Authority of Thailand (CAAT) has agreed to make Boeing's Competency-Based Training and Assessment (CBTA) Learning Library available to participating flight schools under its oversight, coordinated centrally through the regulator rather than each school sourcing the framework separately. Boeing says this is the first time a national regulator has rolled the CBTA library out across an entire training ecosystem this way, rather than school by school. The partnership follows workshops CAAT ran with Boeing Global Services earlier in the year to help Thai flight schools shift away from older content-based syllabuses toward training built around specific pilot competencies, in line with ICAO's preferred approach. Boeing frames the deal against a regional backdrop: it estimates Southeast Asia will need roughly 66,000 new pilots over the next two decades, and argues that standardising how cadets are trained and assessed will make that pipeline more consistent across different schools. Chris Broom, Boeing's vice president of commercial training solutions, said the goal is to "help equip future pilots with the knowledge and competencies needed" for modern airline flying. CAAT's Iratrachar Amornpipat framed it as a way to raise training quality while supporting the growth of Thailand's aviation sector more broadly.