Training

Halldale and T-C-Alliance are launching SCOPE, a two-day implementation workshop before EATS 2026, while the maintenance stream covers competency-based and digital CBTA delivery. Part-IS is the worked example for fitting new rules into training.

EASA has issued an October 2026 revision of its consolidated Aircrew rules, incorporating amended requirements for flight simulation training devices and new material on devices carrying a capability signature. A gyroplane licensing decision is also included.

An Amris Aviation and Halldale report finds 44% of AI initiatives in aviation training target competency assessment and performance analytics under EBT and CBTA. Governance lags: 89% plan human override, yet under half have a named business sponsor.

An APATS interview with consultant Mark Dransfield previews a EATS 2026 session on EASA's FSTD Capability Signature. It would qualify simulators by the tasks they can support rather than by fixed device labels, starting in 2028.

Ten roundtables at a Heads of Training meeting in Bangkok kept naming instructors, not simulators or candidates, as the biggest pipeline risk. Participants said standardisation efforts focus on grading while neglecting instructional skill, and described fixes to the middle-grade habit.

United's Denver flight training centre runs 86 training platforms and trains under the FAA's Advanced Qualification Program. Its training leaders describe data-driven scenarios, a flight path management initiative, and a measured stance on VR and AI.

Evidence-based training only works if operators can interpret their own data and show it improves safety. EASA and Lufthansa Aviation Training describe flexible data weighting, adapted competency models, finer-grained observation categories and the indicators used to judge effectiveness.

Ahead of EATS 2026, Lufthansa's Gilad Scherpf discusses how the FSTD Capability Signature could change training design, while Simaero's Cédric Coffignal outlines an instructor-concordance programme built with Corsair as an early test of the EBT outer loop.

The blended-wing maker intends pilots to move to the Z4 through a new type rating on a conventional two-pilot flight deck. It is building lab simulators now and will seek a training partner for at least two full-flight simulators.

FlyBy Aviation Academy is deploying FlyData.io's smart recorders across its fleet, capturing everything from G-force to cabin air quality for live tracking and rapid post-incident reconstruction. It's the largest single contract by aircraft count in FlyData.io's history.

The November event's cabin crew track will present a €2.4 million study of about 300 crew testing VR emergency training. Sessions also cover instructor calibration and evacuations that don't follow the checklist.

Simvidence, built by AviatePro and simulator maker Simnest, analyzes facial movement, voice and gaze during training sessions to surface behavioral deviations worth discussing. Its creators are explicit that it's meant to support instructor judgment, not replace competency grading.

A three-day joint conference walked carriers through moving from initial competency-based training adoption to a mature, data-driven Baseline EBT model. A session on using AI to analyze EBT data drew airlines including easyJet and Shandong Airlines.

Equipment makers and airlines including Emirates, easyJet and Air India are investing in more immersive training setups that force crew to observe and react rather than follow a fixed sequence. The shift aims to better prepare crews for real emergencies, which rarely unfold as neatly as a checklist.

Cineon and Smart Eye are integrating cockpit-mounted gaze tracking that works with prescription glasses and maps where a pilot looks to specific instruments. Cineon is building a dashboard around the data.

Egnatia Aviation and Skyborne Airline Academy will train flydubai's ab initio cadets, whose first intake aged 17 to 28 comes from eight countries. Graduates earn an MPL and join the airline as first officers.

Ahead of EATS 2026, Helen Heenan says programmes that standardise lesson plans miss the point and that clear, measurable learning objectives are what produce consistent trainees. She says materials are often built without a defined purpose.

An Acron Aviation training executive argues airlines could cut costs by shifting some pilot-training tasks off full-flight simulators, as EASA prepares a new device framework that matches training tasks to minimum-required device capability. The debate is sharpened by fragmented Asia-Pacific regulation and a widening regional pilot shortage.

A new EASA opinion would require airlines to define clear roles and run structured initial, refresher, and periodic competency assessments for operational control personnel, built around competency-based training and assessment rather than job titles. The proposal includes a multi-year transition window for staff already in post.

A preview of the Approved Training Organisation track at this year's European Airline Training Symposium highlights an aging instructor workforce and the difficulty of standardizing how competency-based training is assessed across flight schools. Speakers will also weigh how much credit regulators should give newer tools like VR and XR.

A new Centre of Excellence backed by the Aero Club of India, Alpha Aviation Group, Piper Asia and MHC Global aims to align training manuals, procedures and competency assessments across India's fast-growing flight training sector. The initiative will also use AI-enabled monitoring to track training standards and fleet health.

FlightSafety International is buying Commercial Training Solutions, a TJC-backed training equipment and services provider with more than 300 full-flight simulators in operation across the US, UK and Thailand. The deal is expected to close in the fourth quarter of 2026.

A Halldale-hosted panel on women pilots argues the barriers sit throughout the recruitment and training pipeline rather than at any single point, even as women already hold 42% of all aviation jobs. The panel points to persistent gaps in senior roles and specifically in flight-deck positions.

Mapúa Malayan Colleges Laguna has bought an Alsim AL250 simulator with an added Engineering Pack that lets aeronautical engineering students model and test aircraft characteristics through MATLAB and Simulink. The order was one of three Alsim deals closing out the same week.

All Nippon Airways will send 19 cadets to Sevenair Academy this year under a new ab-initio program built on Airbus's own training curriculum and competency-based methodology. The deal builds on nearly 40 years of Airbus-ANA collaboration as Asia-Pacific alone is forecast to need over 100,000 new pilots.

The renewed preferred-supplier deal covers 737 type-rating and multi-crew cooperation training at Acron's London training centre, following a successful first half of 2026. ASL's head of training cited strong trainee feedback on the course and facilities.

Sessions at the Asia Pacific Aviation Training Summit covered folding CBTA into airlines' existing safety and training-management systems, AI-assisted debriefing tools, and using VR to free up simulator time for advanced scenarios. A new regulatory stream on simulator qualification drew 75 participants in its first year.

FAA-certified training centre PlaneSym debuted an Airbus A320 type-rating course and a new platform, PlaneSym Portal, that consolidates compliance tracking, scheduling and simulator maintenance into one system. The company argues operators currently juggle too many disconnected tools to manage training data well.

The Civil Aviation Authority of Thailand is making Boeing's CBTA training library available to participating flight schools under its oversight, which Boeing calls a first for a regulator. The move aims to standardise pilot training as Southeast Asia braces for demand for tens of thousands of new pilots.

Speaking at APATS 2026 in Bangkok, Thai Airways chief of operations Captain Chawan Ratanawaraha argued that simulator training over-indexes on procedure completion and under-prepares pilots for failures with no scripted response. He pointed to real-world incidents where crews departed from standard procedure to save the aircraft.

Astrom Training Solutions has introduced the GUN Model, which links task, competency and observable-behaviour scores so a failing grade always points to its underlying cause. The company says the approach cuts down on inconsistent grading between instructors and produces cleaner data for spotting training trends.

The company's executives argue that around 95% of "meets standard" grades lack supporting behavioural detail, undermining what CBTA and EBT are meant to deliver. They are positioning their own AI-assisted grading platform, Amris CMS, as a fix — a claim worth reading as a vendor's pitch, not independent verification.

EATS 2026 previews sessions on simulator technology, competency-based training and the pilot pipeline ahead of the event.

The latest EFOS update extends the dashboard-style training overview from EFOS Mobile onto iPad, and gives trainers qualification-reporting tools previously limited to the desktop version. Evoke says it's working toward a consistent design across EFOS Web, Mobile and iPad.

The 737 MAX and A320neo devices passed factory acceptance testing and are built to align with EASA's upcoming training-device framework.

The new stream gives training organisations a focused space to work through how the incoming Flight Simulation Training Device framework will affect them.

A new capability-based framework replaces fixed device categories, asking what training is needed rather than what a simulator can technically do.

A new IATA Knowledge Hub piece argues airlines too often respond to performance problems with ad-hoc training rather than first diagnosing whether training is even the right fix. It draws on IATA's own inquiry data and a case study of an airline whose high turnover turned out to need ongoing development, not a single course.

The compliance software firm says slow credential recognition across borders is doing as much damage as the headline shortage numbers suggest.

The Ukrainian carrier is moving its evidence-based training and qualification tracking onto a digital platform rather than paper-based records.