The tools should match the work.
You spend more hours in cockpits and simulators than those who write the standards. You know which trainees are ready and which need another sortie before they are put on the line. You can spot a competency gap in the first three minutes. But you need to be able to concentrate on educating people. WingMentor was built because the people doing your work deserve tools that match the weight of it.
You are not assisting safety. You are designing it.
Aviation likes to talk about safety culture as if it were a property of the airline. It is not. Safety culture is the sum of thousands of individual judgments made by individual instructors over individual sessions. Whether the trainee got the line, lost it, recovered it, owned it. Whether the behavior you watched on the panel was a lapse or a habit. Whether the next pilot to fly with passengers behind them is ready.
Those are architectural decisions. You make them every day. WingMentor is a tool designed to support you.
The tools should match the work
A drafting table is not a smart drawing tool. It does not draw for you. It does not decide which line goes where. It holds the paper flat, gives you a straight edge, lets you measure, lets you mark, lets you erase, lets you trace. Everything on the page came from your hand.
WingMentor follows the same logic.
- The drafting table is the assessment surface. The competency frameworks (ICAO Doc 9995, EASA EBT Manual, IATA EBT Implementation Guide, your airline’s CBTA/EBT framework and SOPs) are laid out the way you need them, the way the trainee’s licence and your operator’s compliance require.
- The tracing paper is evidence capture. What the trainee did, when, against which observable behavior. Recorded once, preserved exactly. You decide what it means.
- The line-work is your annotation. Your mark on the page. The connection between an observed action and a competency element. The instructor’s read.
- The finished drawing is the debrief. The trainee gets your facilitating questions (we help you with this), he gets your interpretation of the session, supported by the evidence you marked, structured in a way they can study.
Nowhere in any of this does WingMentor decide whether a competency has been met. WingMentor will help you, you draw the line.
What we will not do
We do not assess the session for you. We will show competencies, cite behaviour and propose items based on what was recorded. That can never replace you. If you say during debriefing that Leadership was well above average, we will capture that and pre-fill it in the paperwork. Hence we can provide you with prefilled forms, because in doing so, your job that otherwise would take hours, now can be done in minutes. Easy, consistent and reliable. We do not produce a recommended grade via AI or on our own. We do not interpret the evidence because you are so much better doing that. We will only structure what was there. What you said.
WingMentor is for the instructors who know it is much better to have an ultra-efficient workbench than a hallucinating verdict-machine.
See the work
The doctrine this page rests on.
- ICAO Doc 9995, Manual of Evidence-Based Training (1st edition, English)
- ICAO Doc 9868, PANS-TRG (Procedures for Air Navigation Services, Training)
- EASA EBT Manual, latest edition dated 09.04.2024
- IATA EBT Implementation Guide