On March 1, Flight Safety Foundation released a position paper on pilot training and competency. In the paper, the Foundation says that a pragmatic, data-driven approach to pilot training is essential to the continued improvement of the industry’s safety performance. “The industry needs to embrace, and national civil aviation authorities need to have the flexibility to adopt, competency- or evidence-based training methods that target real-world risk and ensure a progressive and satisfactory performance standard,” the Foundation said.
The paper goes on to offer some background and then a make a series of recommendations. If you haven’t seen it already, the paper is reprinted in this edition of AeroSafety World for your convenience.
In the weeks since we released the paper, a lot of people, including a member of the U.S. House of Representatives, have commented on it — both positively and negatively.
In future issues of ASW, we plan to publish some of t…
