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A4.1.1 Evidence-Based Training

Orientation

A4.1.1 Evidence-Based Training opens the EBT Instructors and Examiners Handbook with the operating premise that informs every later section: training programmes for commercial air transport pilots should be derived from evidence (operational and training data) rather than from a static catalogue of historical critical events. That premise has four immediate consequences which A4.1.1 then expands across its substantive sections:

  • The aim of an EBT programme is competency-based, not event-based: identify, develop, and assess the competencies a pilot needs to operate safely, effectively, and efficiently.
  • The aim is evidence-driven: a comprehensive analysis of safety data and training results sits behind the EBT effort and behind the curriculum it produces.
  • The aim is regulatorily framed: ICAO-9995 (the EBT manual, published 2013) and ICAO-9868 (PANS-TRG) anchor the programme shape, and operators of large turbojet and general-aviation operations can extend EBT into their environments under that framework.
  • The aim depends on competent instructors: a competency-based training programme requires instructors who can perform fault analysis (the principled identification of root causes of unsuccessful manoeuvres) rather than instructors who simply ask the trainee to repeat a manoeuvre that did not work the first time.

The four sections that follow each take one of these consequences and develop it: the data argument under A4.1.3 Evidence, the regulatory programme shape under A4.1.4 Operators EBT Programs, the instructor and examiner requirements under A4.1.5 Instructors and Examiners, and the technical / non-technical collapse into a single set of core competencies under A4.1.6 Competencies.

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