Academy

Context

EASA AIR CREW’s Area 100 Knowledge, Skills, and Attitudes (KSA) ensures the integration of various topics from across the theoretical knowledge courses for the ATPL(A), ATPL (H/IR), ATPL(H), CPL(A) and CPL(H) licences while at the same time developing students’ core competencies.

Area 100 KSA should be considered as a concept underlying the entire theoretical knowledge training system. The area is to be integrated into and throughout the entire training syllabus, and it prepares future pilots for their future career in an air operator, especially in the context of evidence-based training (EBT) implementation.

Training items

Intitial instructor training

• II DAY 1: Learning styles.
• II DAY 1: Teaching methods.
• II DAY 1: Facilitation techniques.
• II DAY 1: Threat and Error management.
• II DAY 1: Applicable competencies.
• II DAY 1: Content of the subject(s) and exercises to deliver.
• II DAY 1: Instructional system design.

Initial assessor training

• IA DAY 1: Area 100 KSA Learning Objectives (LOs).
• IA DAY 1: Relevant competencies and performance indicators.
• IA DAY 1: Area 100 KSA grading system, including familiarisation with the performance indicators and the ATO’s word pictures.
• IA DAY 2: Students debrief methods and procedure.
• IA DAY 2: Assessments’ feedback, evaluation, and development process.
• IA DAY 2: KSA candidate appeal procedures.
• IA DAY 3/4: Formative and summative assessments to be conducted, including: the applicable LOs, purpose and content of the assessment(s) and position(s) in the training plan, assessment resources, assessment environment, and (summative only) the minimum acceptable level.
• IA DAY 3/4: Practical training on the conduct of an assessment, including grading to achieve inter-rater reliability, and the debrief under supervision.

Recurrent instructor & assessor training

• DAY 1 AM: KSA training standardisation elements.
• DAY 1 PM: KSA assessment standardisation elements.
• DAY 2 AM: Review of ATO’s KSA assessments and evaluations.

Training objectives

Initial instructor/assessor training

• Knowledge of how to effectively implement Area 100 KSA in theoretical knowledge training.
• Knowledge of how to effectively perform Area 100 KSA formative and summative assessments.

Recurrent instructor & assessor training

• Maintaining currency in Area 100 KSA instruction/assessment.
• Achieving standardisation and inter-rater reliability in Area 100 KSA instruction/assessment.

Administration

Duration: 1 day initial instructor; 3/4 days initial assessor; 2 days recurrent instructor & assessor.

Deliverables: All participants will receive a certificate of attendance.

Perspective participants

Initial instructor/assessor training

• Approved training organisations’ theoretical knowledge instructors.

Recurrent instructor & assessor training

• ATO KSA instructors and assessors.

Prerequisites

No specific prior knowledge is required to attend the initial training. ATO instructors having attended the initial instructor and assessor training may attend the recurrent training.