Become the instructor your pilots expect you to be
Competency-Based Training and Assessment is built on a simple principle: continuous improvement through observation, evidence, and reflection.
That principle applies to instructors just as much as it applies to trainees.
WingMentor helps instructors develop their own instructional skills by analyzing training sessions against instructor competencies defined in modern CBTA frameworks. Every session becomes an opportunity not only to assess the trainee, but also to strengthen instructional effectiveness.
Turn Every Session Into Professional Development
Most instructors receive little structured feedback on how they teach. Debriefs are delivered, assessments are completed, and the session ends. Valuable insights into instructional performance often disappear with it.
WingMentor changes that.
By analyzing the interaction between instructor and trainee throughout the session, WingMentor helps identify patterns in briefing, observation, intervention, assessment, coaching, and debriefing. The result is a structured reflection tool that helps instructors continuously refine their craft.
Evidence-Based Instructor Development
Great instruction is more than technical expertise.
The best instructors create learning opportunities, adapt their coaching style, manage workload, encourage critical thinking, and deliver effective feedback that drives performance improvement.
WingMentor helps instructors review these competencies using evidence from actual training sessions. Instead of relying on memory or subjective impressions, instructors can revisit specific moments, understand their impact, and identify opportunities for growth.
A Personal Coach for Every Instructor
WingMentor highlights both strengths and development opportunities across key instructional competencies:
- Preparation and planning
- Facilitation of learning
- Observation and evidence gathering
- Assessment and decision-making
- Communication and coaching
- Debriefing effectiveness
- Workload and session management
- Professional standards and consistency
The objective is not evaluation. The objective is improvement.
Just as pilots benefit from structured feedback, instructors benefit from understanding what works, what could be strengthened, and how their instructional approach evolves over time.
Track Growth Over Time
Professional development should not depend on occasional observations or annual standardization events.
WingMentor allows instructors to monitor their development, identify recurring strengths and challenges, and build a richer understanding of their instructional practice.
Over time, individual sessions become trends. Trends become insights. Insights become expertise.
Supporting a Stronger Training Organization
When instructors improve, trainees improve.
By helping instructors reflect on and strengthen their competencies, WingMentor contributes to greater consistency across training departments, more effective debriefings, higher-quality assessments, and ultimately safer flight operations.
Because the principles of CBTA apply to everyone in the training environment.
Including the instructor.
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The doctrine behind the development surface
- ICAO Instructor Competencies framework
- ICAO Doc 9868, PANS-TRG
- ICAO Doc 9995, Manual of Evidence-Based Training
- IATA EBT Implementation Guide