ADVANCED AIRCREW COMPETENCY COURSE
Enhance your decision-making, situational awareness, and CRM effectiveness.
100+ Satisfaction Students Worldwide
Course Overview
The Advanced AirCrew Competency Course is a structured professional development program designed to deepen mastery of the nine core pilot competencies underpinning modern Evidence-Based Training (EBT) frameworks.
Rather than rehearsing specific scenarios, the course strengthens the underlying decision architecture, workload management structure, leadership behaviours, and threat-management mindset required for consistent performance in both simulator assessments and real-world airline operations.
The program is designed for professional airline pilots seeking to:
By focusing on the behavioural and cognitive foundations of performance, the course builds calibrated operational confidence that extends beyond any individual event or assessment profile.
Flexible Pricing for Pilots and Training Departments
Individual pilots can enrol in self-paced courses with three months of access.
Airlines can enrol pilot cohorts through multi-user subscriptions, enabling scalable leadership training across their organisation.
Advance Aircrew Competency Course (AACC)
Designed for professional pilots preparing for command or seeking to strengthen their leadership and decision-making skills.
Includes:
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Command readiness fundamentals
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Captain’s responsibilities
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Crew communication and assertiveness
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CRM basics
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Practical CRM decision-making frameworks
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Operational case studies
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Self-paced learning with 3 months course access
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Certificate of completion
Airline / Cohort Plan
Airline Training Access Elevate Flight Leadership programs can be delivered to pilot cohorts within airline training departments, supporting leadership development, command upgrade preparation, and competency-based training initiatives. Training managers can enrol groups of pilots under cohort-based access plans, enabling consistent leadership training across fleets or upgrade programs. For airline and organisational pricing, please contact: [email protected]
Course Objectives
To develop structured competence across all nine core pilot competencies, enabling pilots to perform deliberately, consistently, and calmly under dynamic operational conditions.
The course equips participants with:
- A repeatable decision-making framework
- A cognitive workload management architecture
- A structured threat and error management model
- Command-level communication strategies
- Integrated leadership behaviours under pressure
The result is improved behavioural stability during simulator assessments and enhanced resilience in live operational environments.
Who This Course For
- Airline First Officers preparing for increased responsibility
- Captains seeking to refine command leadership and performance structure
- Pilots preparing for recurrent EBT assessments
- Airlines seeking structured competency reinforcement across pilot groups
- Recently promoted Captains seeking to consolidate command authority and leadership behaviours
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Pilots
Trained
Developing confident and competent aviation professionals worldwide.
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Years Aviation
Experience
Decades of operational flying and leadership experience.
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Training Sessions
Delivered
Proven training delivery across multiple aviation environments.
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Airline Training Programs Conducted
Specialized programs designed for airline and pilot development.
Advanced AirCrew Competency Course
Lesson 1: Course Objectives and Defining Advanced Flight Crew Competency
Discover the course objectives, set clear expectations, and reflect on your own professional experiences. Lay the foundation for your growth as a modern, effective, and safety-focused aviation leader.
Lesson 2: CBTA Foundations & the Nine Core Competencies
An operational breakdown of the ICAO and EBT competency model. Learn how behavioural markers are assessed and how integrated performance differs from manoeuvre proficiency.
Lesson 3: Application of Knowledge
The Foundation Beneath Every Good Decision
Strong decisions are built on applied understanding. This lesson explores how system knowledge, regulatory awareness, and operational context directly influence judgement quality.
Lesson 4: Flight Path Management — Manual Flight
Mastering Hand-Flying Skills and Resilience
Hand-flying builds resilience. Develop precision control, energy awareness, and confidence when automation is reduced or removed.
Lesson 5: Flight Path Management — Automation Mastery
Optimizing Safety and Avoiding Pitfalls
Automation requires active management. Strengthen mode awareness, intervention discipline, and cognitive engagement in highly automated environments.
Lesson 6: Application of Procedures
Balancing Discipline and Judgement
Procedures provide structure — judgement provides safety. Learn how to balance disciplined compliance with informed operational flexibility.
Lesson 7: Workload Management
Keeping Capacity Ahead of Demand
Develop practical prioritisation techniques and cognitive control strategies to prevent overload during high-pressure events.
Lesson 8: Situational Awareness
Perceive. Understand. Anticipate.
Build structured awareness techniques that integrate multiple information streams and support forward-thinking decision making.
Lesson 9: Leadership & Teamwork
Foundations for High-Performance Crews
High-performance crews don’t happen by accident. Develop calm authority, shared mental models, and behavioural stability under pressure.
Lesson 10: Communication
Good Decisions Start with Good Information
Clear decisions start with clear communication. Refine briefing discipline, assertive techniques, and closed-loop information flow in dynamic situations.
Lesson 11: Problem Solving & Decision Making
Where Everything Comes Together.
Where everything integrates. Apply structured decision frameworks that bring together workload, threats, leadership, and system understanding.
Lesson 12: Threat & Error Management — Integrating Competence into Control
Move beyond CRM theory and learn how to operationalise Threat & Error Management by linking it directly to the nine core competencies—embedding anticipation, error-trapping, and margin protection into everyday command decisions.
Lesson 13: Documentation & Accountability and Legal Exposure in Aviation
Professional competence extends beyond the cockpit. Understand technical documentation discipline, reporting responsibilities, and legal exposure.
Lesson 14: Wrapping It All Up. Pro Tips Simulator & Line Check Mastery
Translate competency into observable performance. Learn structured strategies to demonstrate behavioural consistency in assessments and operational flying.
Lesson 15: Final Exam. 60 question multi-choice exam.
Final Exam. 60 question multi-choice exam.
Lesson 16. Course Summary. A wrap up of the full course, process for certification, and feedback
Course Summary. A wrap up of the full course, process for certification, and feedback
Delivery Modes
Self-Paced Learning
Global access
Individual or Airline Enrollment
Classroom Delivery Option
Graeme Edward Perry
Graeme Edward Perry
Certified Aviation Instructor
Airline Command Experience
Professional Aviation Career
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