Flight Standards Service

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Flight Standards Service
General Aviation and Commercial Operations
Division
FAA/Industry Training Standards

FITS and the Future of Flight Training Mike
Brown Certification and Flight Training
Branch AFS-840
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Flight Standards Service
General Aviation and Commercial Operations
Division
FITS
FITS elements are integrated into all training
products
Risk management Aeronautical decision-making Situa
tional awareness, and Single-pilot resource
management are skills essential in any
aircraft cockpit, regardless of its complexity.
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Flight Standards Service
General Aviation and Commercial Operations
Division
FITS
Current FITS initiatives include
The FITS team is currently conducting a review of
the Adam A-700 jet syllabus. The FITS team is
also working with Mooney in the development of
their first FITS-accepted training program. The
FAA is currently working with its own training
providers under the 4040 Program to incorporate
scenario based training and other FITS tenets
into Inspector recurrent training.
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Flight Standards Service
General Aviation and Commercial Operations
Division
FITS
FITS successes
Middle Tennessee State University now has a
FITS-accepted private/instrument course. Diamond
Aircraft recently received FITS acceptance for
their Garmin G-1000 DA-40 Transition Training
Program. Cirrus recently received FITS
acceptance of their Cirrus Standardized
Instructor Guide/Transition Training
Syllabus. Cessna is using its FITS transition
program for the G-1000 equipped C-182.

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Flight Standards Service
General Aviation and Commercial Operations
Division
FITS
In the works
Develop a National TAA Performance Lab (TAAP Lab)
to perform detailed studies of several facets of
Scenario Based Training (SBT). Establish a
central database for students trained under FITS
to compare to traditional training programs for
continuous assessment of the program.

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Flight Standards Service
General Aviation and Commercial Operations
Division
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