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A4.1.4 Operators EBT Programs

EBT Programs can be extended to the large and turbojet general aviation environment. An ICAO Manual of Evidence-based Training (Doc 9995) was published in 2013 and this, together with updates to the Procedures for Air Navigation Services - Training (PANS-TRG, Doc 9868).

Implementation of EBT should enable operators to develop more effective training programmes and to improve operational safety.

The regulatory anchors

Two ICAO documents form the anchor pair for EBT programme design:

  • Doc 9995, Manual of Evidence-based Training (2013). The methodology document. Defines the EBT philosophy, the three-phase session structure (evaluation, manoeuvres training, scenario-based training), the core-competency framework, the per-generation appendices that supply the manoeuvre and scenario detail, and the assessment system. Read alongside the conduct sections that follow in this appendix; the substantive operational detail in A4.2.1 Guidance for Examiners inherits the structure Doc 9995 sets out.
  • Doc 9868, Procedures for Air Navigation Services - Training (PANS-TRG). The procedures-for-air-navigation-services document that governs training procedures across the ICAO regulatory environment. Updated to incorporate the EBT methodology so that operators implementing EBT have a procedural anchor in PANS-TRG rather than only in the methodology manual.

The combination matters. Doc 9995 describes what an EBT programme is and why the methodology is built the way it is; Doc 9868 codifies how the methodology lands inside the procedures-for-air-navigation-services framework that national regulators reference.

Extension to the operational fleet

The handbook records that EBT programmes can be extended to the large and turbojet general-aviation environments. The text of ICAO-9995 originally addressed the commercial air transport environment with multi-pilot turbojet and turboprop aircraft (the six aircraft generations in the appendices); the extension to large turbojet operations in general aviation broadens the population that can adopt the methodology.

For an operator implementing EBT on its fleet, the practical consequence is that the methodology is not specific to one fleet or one operating model; the same EBT principles apply across that operator's aircraft types, with the per-generation appendices supplying the type-specific manoeuvre and scenario detail.

The operational-safety case

Connections

  • A4.1.3 Evidence. The data argument that supports the case for adopting an evidence-based programme.
  • A4.1.5 Instructors and Examiners. The additional instructor and examiner requirements EBT brings with it.
  • A4.1.6 Competencies. The competency framework the EBT programme is built around.
  • EBT. The methodology these regulatory anchors codify.
  • ICAO-9995. The Manual of Evidence-based Training (2013).
  • ICAO-9868. PANS-TRG; the training procedures document that codifies EBT into the PANS framework.
  • A4.2.1 Guidance for Examiners. Operationalises the regulatory anchors into session-level conduct.