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 is expected to prepare future pilots not only for the examination, but also for their future career in an air operator, especially in the context of evidence-based training (EBT) implementation.

Training items

Intitial training

• The need for KSA and outline of regulatory changes.
• Core competencies.
• Learning objectives.
• KSA assessment.
• Impacts for ATOs when introducing KSA.
• KSA instructor training.
• Role playing and assessment modalities.
• Learning styles, teaching methods, facilitation techniques, and threat and error management (TEM).
• Bloom taxonomy and grading system matrix.

Recurrent training

• DAY 1 AM: KSA training standardisation elements.
•  DAY 1 PM: KSA evaluations standardisation elements.
• DAY 2 AM: Review of ATO’s KSA assessments and evaluations.
• DAY 2 PM: Familiarisation elements for new or modified exercises or evaluations.

Training objectives

Initial training

• Gaining a detailed understanding into the expectations of the applicable EASA IRs, AMCs and GMs published.
• Knowledge of how to effectively implement Area 100 KSA in theoretical knowledge training.

Recurrent training

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

Administration

• Duration: 4 days initial/2 days recurrent.
• Deliverables: All participants will receive a certificate of attendance.

Perspective participants

Initial training

• Approved training organisations, instructors, and examiners.
• Training managers.

Recurrent training

• Current ATO KSA instructors and assessors.

Prerequisites

• No specific prior knowledge is required to attend the initial training. Current ATO KSA instructors and assessors may attend the recurrent training.