Competency Assessment
Competency-based training is the core of flight safety. Task-based training trains for the events that have happened in the past. Competency-based training (CBTA) trains for what may happen tomorrow. If you have never run a CBTA session, here is the short version: competency-based training is the model where a pilot’s readiness is judged against a defined set of competencies (manual handling, application of procedures, situation awareness, leadership and teamwork, and so on) rather than against the completion of a fixed syllabus. Each competency is decomposed into observable behaviors that the instructor can mark during the session. Whether the trainee meets the standard is the instructor’s judgment, made against a framework the operator and the authority have agreed.
WingMentor’s assessment surface is a drafting table for exactly that judgment.
The framework, laid out the way you mark it
The competency frameworks that matter (ICAO Doc 9995 Manual of EBT, ICAO Doc 9868 PANS-TRG, the EASA EBT Manual, the IATA EBT Implementation Guide), and your company’s framework, do not all use the same labels for the same behaviors. WingMentor reconciles them. You see your operator’s competency model, mapped to the regulatory standards your authority audits against, with the source citation visible at each level. The mapping is auditable, not magical. We take the stress and the complexity out of it. So that you can concentrate on what really matters: educating your trainee.
What you see when you assess
A clean page. The competency hierarchy: each competency, its component elements, the observable behaviors under each element. No more guesswork. The session timeline: what the trainee did, when, in the operator’s words and the regulatory words. Your annotations connect them. A behavior observed at 14:12 marked against “manages workload effectively under abnormal conditions”. Your read, your mark, traceable to the moment in the session that produced it.
You can leave a behavior unmarked. You can mark it with a change. You can withdraw a mark. Nothing is final until you say it is. Because nothing can match you, the instructor.
What the drafting table does not do
WingMentor does not score the session, nobody can delegate that part to a possibly hallicinating AI. We hear what you say and prepare that in the draft report. It does not weight one competency against another to produce a composite grade. It does not interpret what an observable behavior means in the trainee’s specific situation. Those are judgment calls that depend on context (the phase of training, the airline’s risk environment, the trainee’s history) and we do not have the standing to make them. No program can do that. The instructor does. What the instructor says goes into the pre-assessment, this makes his/her task so much easier.
What WingMentor does is keep the evidence in front of you, structured against the standards your company and authority cares about, so the judgment you make is the one you actually meant to make. Based on the facts.
See it in your operator’s framework
If you would like to see how WingMentor reconciles your operator’s competency model to the regulatory standards your authority audits against, ask for a working session with the team.
The frameworks WingMentor reconciles.
- ICAO Doc 9995, Manual of Evidence-Based Training (1st edition, English)
- ICAO Doc 9868, PANS-TRG (Procedures for Air Navigation Services, Training, incl. Amdt. 7)
- EASA EBT Manual, latest edition dated 09.04.2024
- IATA EBT Implementation Guide
Each behavior on the assessment surface is traceable to the document and section above. The mapping is auditable, not magical.