Corporate Pilot Training

Are you ready to take your corporate flight department pilot training in a new direction. For most professional pilots, it's once or twice a year at the training center, spend a few solid days of training and learning, pretty much doing the same thing year in and year out. Wouldn't it be neat to provide continuous learning to your pilot group. Sure, the initial and recurrent training is what it is, but how many times do you review for your check ride and relearn 75% of what you have forgotten since your last check ride.

As professional pilots, do you think that one or two training events per year is enough? I can remember cramming so much into a training/checking event, that it was nearly impossible to learn anything, it was a matter of surviving the enormous amount of material and maneuvers that were mandatory to accomplish in the limited amount of time provided. Would having continual access to a library of web or computer based courses help with proficiency, at least proficiency with book knowledge. Hands on flying proficiency is another story. How about assigning a few "homework assignments" throughout the year to keep abreast of some of the things that one loses over time? Hit the areas that are important to your flight department, may runway incursion prevention, pilot fatigue, or security. And best of all, no paper, no checking up on your crews and no filing completed assignments. You can easily create electronic assignments, deliver them over the Internet so they are available 24/7, and let the available web-applications do all the leg work for you, such as keeping track of who's doing what, test scores, and completion dates.

Does a professional pilot really need an instructor to explain weather fronts, clear air turbulence or wake turbulence avoidance. I'll respond with a resounding no. Are these subjects important, "you betcha" (a little North Dakota humor), but information like this is perfectly suitable for delivery through computer based training. Computer based training is perfect for learning or keeping abreast of technical subject matter, which is why all of this is continually available to your pilot group if you want it. Back to the instructor, they play a very important part in professional pilot training. They are there, in my opinion, of course for flight training, but more importantly, they are there to hit the current hot topics so you, the professional pilot, stays out of trouble in the current environment you are operating within.