Taking Off: Towards Real Competence-Based Flight Pilot Training

The Airtention project aims at the realization of a pilot training assistance system which embodies a truly competence- and evidence-based training approach, with the ambition to replace established skill representations as 'hours of experience' with actual measures and models of level of (i) automation, (ii) task execution accuracy, and (iii) task execution efficiency. For this purpose, a mobile eyetracker will be employed to assess and estimate procedural, behavioral and psychophysiological indicators such as visual attention, perception, cognitive load, interaction with objects of interest, and progress in the workflow to enable deductions about associated skill levels, and adaption of training plans both during runtime and on the scale of a long-term training schedule. Such a system will allow to create a training process which is flexible, adapting to the individual, while at the same time ensuring the quality of the training results.