Synopsis - High Effect Training Project

The Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA) has lent support to a Research Project to develop Guidelines for "High Effect" flight training. Guidelines are published on this website - so as to be downloadable at no cost. They apply to flight instructors - and current or intending trainees.

Reference materials that constitute the "Guidelines" are on this website.

Please note that they are in early draft state, and continuously being updated.

(Making the main ideas available seems more important than presentation.)

Contact me (Doug) with any questions: dougwds@bigpond.net.au

Trainee Pilots

For the student pilot, the focus is on preparation (including self-awareness – am I suited to this?) and reasonable expectations of a proper and effective training regime. Practical assistance is given in your choice of a school to train with, at: Selecting the Flight School

Instructors

While the High Effect Guidelines focus on training design and delivery - and objective measurement of outcomes, they are meant for flight instructors. An instructor, to be capable of using the Guidelines to full effect, will need training. A High Effect Certificate will be awarded upon graduation from the course.

The Instructor training course (to qualify one to use the Guidelines in formal instruction) is in development.

If you wish to see the prototype syllabus (it's evolving, too) please email me.

Instructor Training

A single flight school will assume responsibility for developing the Guidelines from the materials on this website. The Lead School will also deliver instructor training courses, to qualify to operate HE Guidelines.

The Instructor training course will be developed in conjunction with a school.

Background

CASA has accepted the argument that more potent flight instruction will graduate pilots with stronger overall competencies - and hence improved safety attributes.
For more on those arguments, see: IPT Essentials

Sources

There is little publicly accessible evidence of innovation in flight training. HE methods are thus based on original sources - Thorndike, especially - and ways and means for energising the heritage concepts and theorems to transform them for greater potency and effect in delivery. (It's a catalytic effect.)

Overall Objective

Reference materials on this website will serve as the basis for instructor competency augmentation. The Lead School will train its own and other Schools' instructors in High Effect methods. Arrangements will be invoked for quality assurance.

For more detail on Project outcomes, check: Pilot Training References