TRACDsolutions’™ Key Benefits

The matrix is like a big Excel spreadsheet – learning events across the top and performance criteria, underpinning knowledge and if required, aeronautical knowledge items 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 and AK from any learning event.
• You can change the context type for a PC/UPK/AK within a learning event – e.g. change it from monitoring (MON) to scenario (SCS) or to formal review of progress (FRP1).
• You can select an item to edit and customise the teaching notes. Simply add your particular technique, specific airspeed, configurations or any unique background information that you want taught at that point.

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

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 standard 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.

TRACDsolutions is flexible so it can adapt to your needs.

The content in each Learning Event will be generated into a Detailed Lesson Plan. The teaching notes for each PC, UPK and AK are placed into your Detailed Lesson Plan. This provides your training staff with all they need to be able to brief, teach, demonstrate, monitor, create scenarios, review and assess each PC, UPK and AK. This includes all the instructions, guidance, techniques and information that you want them to have.

When teaching ground based lessons, any teaching diagrams associated with that learning event are included in the correct sequence.

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

• What to teach (the PC, UPK and AK).
• When to brief, demonstrate, monitor and assess each PC, UPK and AK.
• What the specific technique is, including specific details of speeds and configuration, work cycle, etc.
• How to recognise the acceptable standard.

PDFs can be downloaded for provision to CASA for approval (or as a hard copy back up), but normally the lesson plans are accessed digitally online or via the free iPad/iPhone app. This method offers abbreviated (one line) text for each teaching item that can be expanded at the click of a button to see the completed teaching notes if required.

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Within every great training course, each item the student either needs to be competent in (PC) or is required to know (UPK or AK) should be provided to the instructor.  Appropriate guidance, technique and background information should also be made available to the instructor to enable them to teach, demonstrate, monitor or assess effectively.

This ensures a high level of standardisation across training staff as 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, demonstration, monitoring situation, assessment and so on. The particular PC, UPK and AK is presented in the context it will be used. This produces a practical document that can be used to provide clear training guidance and focus the learning outcomes. As usual, you should review these techniques and information, modifying them where desired, to ensure this is how you want your instructors or check pilots to teach and assess.

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 teaching notes 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?

Teaching notes provide the solution and allow you to control what is taught, the technique, how it is monitored and how it is assessed. This is standardization.

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 the Lesson Plans for instructors to refer to, and are also 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)