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Flight Safety Foundation Calls for Sweeping Changes to Pilot Training

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Key Takeaways:

  • The U.S. pilot training system is criticized for being outdated, with past accidents leading to the controversial 1,500-hour flight time mandate for airline pilots, a requirement whose direct correlation to improved safety lacks definitive data-driven proof.
  • The Flight Safety Foundation (FSF) advocates for a shift towards a pragmatic, data-driven, and competency- or evidence-based training approach, emphasizing the quality of skill acquisition and demonstrated performance over simply accumulating flight hours.
  • To meet future pilot demands and enhance safety, FSF recommends evaluating successful international ab initio programs, improving pilot screening and non-technical skill development, maximizing advanced simulation, and establishing global quality and performance criteria for training.
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The pilot training system in the United States has remained essentially unchanged for the past 50 or 60 years, with just a few notable exceptions. New technologies have added complexity to the training process, while loss of control accidents have focused everyone on how much we actually did not know about how airplanes fly.

Rob Mark

Rob Mark is an award-winning journalist, business jet pilot, flight instructor, and blogger.

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