FAA/Industry Training Standards Instructor Seminar

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FAA/Industry Training Standards Instructor Seminar
Presentation in Duluth, MN Name Thomas Glista,
FAA, FITS Program ManagerDate April 22, 2006
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OVERVIEW

• What is FITS?
• Why do we need it?
• Who is involved?

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What is FITS?

• FITS is a joint government-stakeholder initiative
  designed to reduce the total number of general
  aviation accidents.
• This means using scenario-based training to
  effectively integrate
• Risk Management
• Aeronautical Decision Making
• Situational Awareness and
• Single Pilot Resource Management into
• EVERY flight operation!!

The airport runway is the Most important
mainstream In any town. -Norm Crabtree
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FITS Mission Statement and Imperative

• FITS Mission Statement
•   Improve pilot learning to safely, competently,
  and efficiently operate a technically advanced
  piston or light jet aircraft in the modern
  National Airspace System (NAS).
•  FITS Imperatives
• Implement training that reduces the human error
  element and accelerates acquisition of
  higher-level judgment and decision-making skills.
   
• Bottom Line Structured way to teach pilot to
  safely, competently, and efficiently operate a
  technically advanced piston or light jet aircraft

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Why Do We Need FITS?-History

• New Technologies produced initial spike in
  accidents
• Bonanza
• Light Twins
• Lear Jet
• Yankee
• Malibu
• Cirrus
• Main Causal Factor-Pilots not being trained for
  the technology
• Training has not changedin 60 years

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Why Do We Need FITS?
Legacy vs. Technically Advanced Aircraft
Greater Sophistication Speed Range - Single
engine performance - Payload All major OEMs now
offering glass cockpit avionics.
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Why Do We Need FITS?-Operational Environment
Changes

• Airspace Changes-ADIZ, TFR, etc.
• Security Changes-Hassle and delay factors
• Airline Changes-Fewer and fuller flights
• New cockpit and aircraft technologies- Avidyne
  FlightMax, Garmin G1000, Adam, Cirrus, Diamond,
  Eclipse, Lancair
• Fractional ownership
• General Aviation is no longer a monolith- Sport
  pilot to BBJ
• EQUALS
• GA is being used as a transportation option
• But-GA training has not changed in over 60 years

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What else is FITS?

• Voluntary
• Acceptance vs. Approval
• Incentive based
• Initiated to address TAAsTenets apply to all
  training
• Real partnership
• JSC-TAA Subgroup
• Its working
• Initial Data
• Does not remove stick and rudder skills practice

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Who is Involved

• COE/CGAR
• Embry Riddle Aeronautical University
• University of North Dakota
• Initial Partners
• Recip-Cirrus
• Turbine-Eclipse
• Other Partners
• Insurance
• Manufacturers
• Training Providers
• Training Developers
• Advocacy Groups
• Universities
• Pilot and Owners Associations
• Fractional
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WHAT IS OUT THERE NOW?

• Generic
• Transition
• Recurrent
• Private/Instrument
• Instructor
• Avionics (GPS, MFD, and Glass Panel)
• Specific
• Garmin 430/530
• MTSU Private/Instrument
• Adam 500 and 700 Transition, and 500 Instructor
• Documents
• FITS Criteria
• Learner Centered Grading
• Levels of FITS acceptance
• Designated Examiners Guide
• Articles

• Instructor Guide
• Examiners Guide
• Course Developers Guide

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QUESTIONS?
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INTRODUCTIONS

• Professor Frank Ayers
• Flight Program Manager-ERAU
• ATP, CFI, CFII, MEI, B-757/767
• USAF (retired) B-52, T-37, T-38, KC-135, C-47
• Chief Military Education Division at the Pentagon
• Numerous papers and articles published
• Professor Michele Summers
• Principal Investigator of FITS
• Assistant Professor in the Aeronautical Science
  Dept at ERAU
• ATP, CFI, CFII, MEI, Advanced Ground Instructor,
  FE
• over 5000 total flight hours
• experience in flight instruction, cargo,
  commuter, corporate, and airline operations

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QUESTIONS?

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