Key Benefits for you when you use TRACDsolutions

The Complete Solution

TRACDsolutions is the complete solution for your Part 61 Training needs. You have full control over the Matrix of Learning Events and Performance Criteria/Underpinning Knowledge item (and, if needed, all of the Aeronautical Knowledge items). Move Learning Events, add or remove Learning Events…set the course up how you would like. You receive a course Overview/Summary, Detailed Lesson Plans, Abbreviated Lesson Plans and Records Sheets for each Event.

Your course is preserved in the TRACDsolutions and when you need to update your course it is there waiting for you. You can create the next version and update your training to make it more efficient or to meet the auditing and improvement requirements of CASA Part 142.255 (c) and 142.265 (1)(b) or CASR Part 141.260 (mb).

Select the items below to read a description of the key features of TRACDsolutions.

Matrix

The matrix is like a big Excel spreadsheet – learning events across the top and Performance Criteria (PC), Underpinning Knowledge (UPK) and (if required) Aeronautical Knowledge (AK) item down the left-hand side. The Matrix helps you to see your course layout and how and when each PC, UPK or AK items are to be taught, demonstrated, monitored and assessed. You have full control over the matrix.
* You can easily move, add or remove Learning Events,
* You can move, add or remove a PC/UPK/AK from a Learning Event with one click of the mouse,
* You can change the Context Type for a PC/UPK/AK within a learning event – say, change it from monitoring (MON) to scenario (SCS) or to formal review of progress (FRP1).
* You can change the text that describes the context to add your particular technique, or specific airspeed and configurations, or particular background information that you wish to be taught at that point. Simply select the item and edit it.

All of the abbreviated lesson plans and record sheets will automatically match up. (click on image to enlarge)

Customisable

Within TRACDsolutions you can customize just about everything. You are in control. Need a new Learning Event – just add it in. Do you use a different technique to teach a particular item – just change the text. Want to use your current teaching diagrams – delete the included diagram and add your own. Want to include more monitoring or revision aspects in your course – just add them to the Matrix. Want to change the length of a Learning Event – change the times. Want to add your specific navigation routes – simply include the information in the Learning Event Summary. Want to change the teaching sequence within a Learning Event – Simply re-sequence it.

We have made TRACDsolutions to be able to adapt to your needs.

Detailed Lesson Plans

The content that is placed into each Learning Event will be generated into the Detailed Lesson Plan. For every PC/UPK/AK, the context descriptors are placed into your Detailed Lesson Plan to provide your training staff with all they need to be able to brief, teach, demonstrate, monitor, create scenarios, review and assess each PC/UPK/AK with the instructions, guidance, techniques and information that you want them to have. For ground lessons, if there are teaching diagrams associated with that learning event, they are included on the document in their correct sequence.

You don’t need to worry about how you will achieve standardization amongst your training staff as they will all have access to the same complete description of:

What to teach (the PC, UPK and AKs)
When to Brief it, demonstrate it, monitor it and assess it,
What the specific technique is including specific details of speeds and configuration, work cycle etc,
How to recognise the acceptable standard,

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Context Descriptors

In a great training course, every item that the student needs to be competent in (PC) or needs to know (UPK or AK), should be provided to the instructor with the appropriate guidance, techniques and background information that is required so that they can teach, demonstrate, monitor or assess it effectively in the context of the Learning Event. This ensures a high level of standardisation across training staff because all of the required knowledge, techniques and assessment standards are clearly detailed. It also provides the student with a great degree of certainty about what they must be capable of doing or knowing.

TRACDsolutions provides all of this background material, techniques and explanations and describes it in the appropriate context – for a briefing, for a demonstration, for a monitoring situation, for an assessment et cetera. As usual, you should review these techniques and information, modifying them where desired, to ensure that this is how you want your instructors or check pilots to teach and assess.

TRACDsolutions provides 22 different context descriptors (at last count!). Some of the key context descriptors are: “Long Briefing”, “Pre-Flight Briefing”, “Directed Private Study”, “Demonstation”, “Direct Instruction”, “Monitoring”, “Scenario Situation”, “Formal Review of Progress”, “Assess Competency”.

Each descriptor presents the particular PC/UPK/AK in the context that it must be used to provide a readable document to provide clear training guidance and focus the learning outcomes.

How would you give a long briefing on the Performance Criteria from NAV1 (a) “Select and prepare appropriate navigation charts for the intended flight;”? What would you include? Select chart – would you review the types of charts used in aviation? Would you review their relative benefits and limitations? Would you look at their legends and how topography is depicted? Prepare chart – would you show how to draw tracks? Add 10 mile, 10 minute or proportial distance marker? Drift lines? Off track features? How to fold the chart for the cockpit?

The big question is, “What do you want your instructors to teach”. The context descriptors allow you to specify exactly what you want and how you want to teach it.

What about a demonstration of a recovery from an unusual recovery (nose high)? What technique is appropriate? How do you want instructors to assess the standard for this PC?

Context discriptors provide the solution and allow you to control what is taught, the technique, how it is monitored and how it is assesses. This is standardization.

Teaching Diagrams

TRACDsolutions provides a number of high quality teaching diagrams created by a graphic artist. These are automatically included with the relevant PC/UPK. You can also add your own diagrams that you want your Instructors to use. The diagrams are shown (in thumb nail form) in the Detailed Lesson Plans and are available to students in their Directed Private Study notes. You will have control over the teaching material and will be able to gather together all the great material that you and your staff use and keep it in one place for everyone to have direct access to. (click on image to enlarge)

Student Directed Study

Do you worry that your students aren’t getting clear guidance about how they can revise material and prepare for the next lesson? Student Directed Study modules are built into every course. These provide clear guidance written to the student directing them to the relevant material to study based on previous Learning Events to consolidate their knowledge and to prepare them for the next Learning Event. This allows students to build their own learning notes and allows Instructors to check on the student’s learning progress. (click on image to enlarge)

Student Solo Practice

No need to worry that your junior instructors aren’t providing clear guidance to students for their solo practice. Guidance notes are provided for student solo practice to detail what they need to do and you can easily amend these notes to meet your needs adding specific local procedures and navigation routes. The notes remind students of the technique that they need to practice and provide pointers for achieving the most from their solo practice. After the flight, the notes allow for student reflection on their session to consolidate their learning experience.

Student Written Exams

To ensure that all of the required Underpinning Knowledge and any Aeronautical Knowledge items are clearly understood by the student, TRACDsolutions includes student written exams. These exams can be personalised for your operation. An exam question (or a number of questions) can be required from any PC/UPK/AK, but generally they focus on the knowledge items from the UPK/AK units. Multiple questions can be asked about each UPK/AK. They can be multi choice format or longer written answer.

Record Sheets

Never again will you wonder whether instructors completed or assessed all of the items that they were required to complete on a particular training flight. Record sheets are provided for each appropriate learning event. These record sheets always automatically align with the sequence and items in the Lesson Plans.

Where a competence is simply being introduced, briefed, demonstrated or monitored, the record sheet allows for acknowledgement that this training was done. Comments can be recorded against each item or against a group of items.

Where a competence is being formally reviewed or assessed, an additional checkbox allows for the training pilot to clearly certify that the item was reviewed to an adequate standard or assessed to the required standard (or not!). There is opportunity to record comments individually or against groups of competencies.

At the end of the lesson record, there is a text box to record details of the lesson (fly time, aircraft et cetera) and to note whether the lesson was completed adequately such that the student may progress to the next lesson or whether certain items were not taught or the student was not competent in particular items such that they must be repeated in a subsequent appropriate lesson. Additional overall comments may be made and the instructor and student have the opportunity to sign the record.

The future “Digital” version will allow complete data analysis of training performance and permit a totally controlled (and easy) way of moving incomplete training items to the next appropriate lesson. (click on image to enlarge)

Lesson Record 2 Competence certification

Course Outputs

You will have no more worries about fixing up page numbering or formatting on your training material with TRACDsolutions. Think of the time that this alone will save you. When you have completed personalising the course, you finalised the course. This preserves the course at your current version number and allows you to download the full course documentation for submission to CASA for approval and subsequent use by your training organisation. You will be provided with the:

Course overview/summary for the course which provides overall information on the course including times and details for each Learning Event.
Detailed Lesson plans,
Abbreviated Lesson plans, as well as all of the
Record sheets which are shaped for each lesson and reflect what was required to be taught – not just a generic record sheet.

Every piece of documentation is branded with your company logo and company name. (click on image to enlarge)

Any Time Access

Don’t fear course amendment time! Making changes to your courses is a breeze with TRACDsolutions. Ongoing access to your course (after you first finalize it) is available if you purchase an Any-Time Accesss subscription. With Any-Time Access you can update your course to improve efficiency, to respond to student learning progress and to provide continuous improvement. If you are a Part 141 organisation then you must meet the requirement of CASR 141.260(mb)

You must identify and address deficiencies in training outcomes, audit the training; promote the continual improvement of the training; evaluate the training outcomes from pre-flight test assessments and post-flight test feedback from flight examiners; and make changes to your training course.

If you are a Part 142 operator you must meet the requirements of CASR 142.255(c) and CASR 142.265(1)(b).

You must in a planned and systematic manner, identify and address deficiencies in training outcomes.

If you purchase an Any-Time Access subscription for your course, you will be able to update your course as often as you need based on your experience in your training and you will be able to meet this requirement of CASA to identify deficiencies and promote continual improvement of your training courses.

Additionally, in phase 2 of TRACDsolutions we will be providing an option for a full digital training solution and record keeping process that will also automatically provide you with data about individual student or groups of students on the same course and their progress (or lack of progress!) that will allow you to consider effective changes to your course structure. This will dramatically improve your ability to achieve continual improvement in your training. We can show you that, for example, 30% of your students do not meet the standard of a particular Performance Criteria at the Formal Review. On the basis of that, you could review your training and briefing guidance notes, modify your documented flight techniques, add aditional teaching diagrams, choose to add more solo practice, choose to add more monitoring of that item or move the assessment to a little further along in the course. We might even recommend to CASA on your behalf that this particular performance criteria needs re-writing (some of them are a bit off!).

An Any-Time Access subscription is vital if you are serious about being in business over the long term.

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Complete Solution

The BASELINEsolution is a complete course solution inside the TRACDsolution environment.

Lesson Plans

Expanded Lesson plans as well as Abbreviated Lesson plans.

Syllabus items

Every Performance Criteria and all Underpinning Knowledge.

Diagrams

High quality diagrams to aid teaching.

Easy to use

Intuitive, easy to use web interface.

Records

Unique records correspond to every Learning Event.

Student Exams

Student exams built into the course (but customisable!).

Student Study Guide

Directed study notes provided for students.

Customisable

Customise just about everything.

Personalise

Personalise your course with company name, logo and branding.

Standardisation

Training guidance improves instructor standardisation.

Sophisticated Rules

Sophisticated rules in the background prevent errors in course design.

Future Features for TRACDsolutions

Online Lessons & Records

Online Lessons and Student Records with data entered via iPad app and computer, backed-up to our servers but available to be printed if desired.

Track Performance Criteria

Track incomplete or not yet competent criteria. Never fail to complete an item. 100% audit evidence of completion.

Modify Lessons on the fly

Modify lessons on the fly to digitally import PC/UPKs that were not covered (or assessed as not competent) in previous lessons.

Training Trends

See trends in training. How many students struggle to achieve a particular PC on time? How many are competent at the first assessment – Meet the audit and improvement requirements of 141.260(mb) and 142.255(c) requirements