FAA/Industry Training Standards (FITS) Seminar

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FAA/Industry Training Standards (FITS) Seminar
Presentation in Anchorage, AK Name Thomas
Glista, FAA, FITS Program ManagerDate
September 30, 2006
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OVERVIEW

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

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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
  aircraft in todays environment.

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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?-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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Accident Causal Factors

• Fatal Accident Causality is driven by Pilot
  Related Issues

• Percent of Fatal Accidents
• 73
• 10
• 9
• 8
• ___________
• 100

• Major Cause
• Pilot
• Mechanical/Maintenance
• Other
• Unknown
• ___________
• Total

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FAA Flight Plan

• By FY 2009, reduce the number of general aviation
  and nonscheduled Part 135 fatal accidents to no
  more than 319.
• By FY 2009, reduce accidents in Alaska for
  general aviation and all Part 135 operations from
  the 2000-2002 average of 130 accidents per year
  to no more than 99 accidents per year

• Target for 2005-No grater than 343
• Actual Total for 2005 was 350
• Target for 2006-No greater than 337
• So far, on target (41 below)
• Alaska 2005-No greater than 130
• Total for 2005 was 114
• Alaska for 2006-No greater than 115
• So far, on target (14 below)

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WHAT WE ARE DOING WRONG

• Train to pass the test, rather than practical
  operations in a modernized NAS
• Emphasis on training maneuvers, rather than
  aeronautical decision making/risk management
• Insufficient emphasis on use of new flight
  technologies and procedures (GPS, moving maps,
  multifunction displays, autopilots) After you
  get your certificate, you can learn that stuff
• Long product cycle times for regulations and
  related products (ACs) Measured in years versus
  short product cycle time for industry-Measured in
  months or weeks
• Obsolete training curricula
• Inadequate use of new training technologies
  (Simulation devices)

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What else is FITS?

• Voluntary
• Acceptance vs. Approval
• Incentive based
• Initiated to address TAAs
• Tenets 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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Resources

• Generic Syllabi Include
• Transition
• Recurrent
• Instructor
• Private/Instrument
• Avionics Specific
• GPS
• Multi-Function Displays
• Integrated Cockpit
• Specific Syllabi Include
• Adam
• Garmin

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Resources

• Documents Include
• FITS Criteria
• DPE Guidance
• Instructor Guide
• Inspector Guide
• Course Developers Guide
• Personal Minimums Checklist
• Personal WX andRisk Assessment Guide
• Levels of FITS

• Research/Studies
• MTSU Results
• Effectiveness of FITS Training
• Safety Study
• PTS Maneuvers
• SBT to teach SRM

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Future Changes

• Scenario Based Generic Syllabi
• Private
• Instrument
• Commercial
• CFI
• Scenario Based PTS
• Inspector Training
• Examiner Guidance
• Examiner Training

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Test-RM or ADM error?Or good SRM?
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INTRODUCTIONS

• 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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