Instructor Debrief
In CBTA the session is not over when the simulator door opens. The debrief, the conversation where the instructor talks the trainee through what happened, what it meant, and what to work on, is where the learning consolidates. The IATA EBT Implementation Guide places the debrief at the core of the training cycle for exactly that reason. Without it, evidence is just data. With it, the trainee has a path forward.
WingMentor’s debrief surface treats your read of the session as the finished drawing.
The debrief as finished work
You have to spent the session capturing evidence and marking behaviors. You have to have the framework reconciled across PANS-TRG, your authority, and your operator. You must have your annotations, timestamped, with the references you consulted at each mark. You have to read of where the trainee stood at the end. We have seen very experienced instructors struggling to do all that while guarding flight safety or complex simulator controls in the learning environment. Helping instructors by recording and classifying events in the complex CBTA framework makes all the difference. WingMentor will surprise you with an excellent debriefing guide, not telling you what you should do, but helping you with guidelines before the debriefing even started.
The debrief is the moment where you turn that body of evidence into a story the trainee can study. Not a list of marks. An interactive narrative of the competencies applicable during the session, structured the way you would walk the trainee through it: what went well, what was at the edge, what needs another sortie, and why.
The structure follows what you wrote down (if you shared any annotations with us) and what audio was recorded. It detects real events, it is not a static template. The evidence is linked from each conclusion so the trainee can see the moment that produced your judgment. Your annotations carry through verbatim.
What the trainee receives
A document that the trainee can read, even on a phone, between rotations. Your conclusions in your words. The evidence behind each conclusion, linked to the moment in the session. The competency map showing where the trainee stood at the end. The recommended areas of focus for the next training event, approved by the instructor.
If the trainee disputes a conclusion, the evidence is right there. If the trainee accepts a conclusion, the path to improvement is also right there. Either way, the conversation that happened in the briefing room is preserved for the trainee to revisit. And learn more.
What the instructor controls
Everything. The structure of the document. The order of conclusions. Which behaviors are highlighted and which are left at the level of the underlying evidence. The tone. The recommendations. The decision about whether to share specific evidence excerpts with the trainee or to keep them as instructor-only context.
WingMentor does not deliver a debrief to the trainee on the instructor’s behalf. It assembles the materials and proposes a structure so the instructor’s work is in one place. The instructor controls the document.
See it
The doctrine behind the debrief surface.
- IATA EBT Implementation Guide
- ICAO Doc 9868, PANS-TRG
- ICAO Doc 9995, Manual of Evidence-Based Training