Flying Competent

Every pilot is trained and tested against competencies, TEM, CBTA and EBT. Almost no one explains what they actually mean.

Modern airline training speaks a new language. You're graded on nine competencies, from one to five. Your recurrent check is "evidence-based." Threat and Error Management underpins everything. Yet most pilots are assessed against this framework long before anyone hands them a plain explanation of how it all fits together — or what a check pilot is really looking for.

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