EBT practice guide
From mixed EBT to baseline EBT. An operator's roadmap.
Mixed EBT keeps the proficiency checks in their traditional form and adds evidence-based modules. Baseline EBT, often called full EBT, builds the recurrent cycle on competencies. This guide covers what the move requires, in what order, and where programmes stall.
The difference
What actually changes. Mixed EBT and baseline EBT, side by side.
A simplified comparison. Your authority's approval defines the detail for your operation.
Proficiency check
Mixed EBT: Kept in its traditional form
Baseline EBT: Assessed within the EBT programme, in the form your authority approves
Session structure
Mixed EBT: EBT modules added alongside existing sessions
Baseline EBT: Evaluation, manoeuvres training and scenario-based training
What is recorded
Mixed EBT: Items passed, plus competency grades in EBT modules
Baseline EBT: Competency grades across the full cycle
Programme adaptation
Mixed EBT: Limited
Baseline EBT: The programme responds to your own competency data
Instructor demand
Mixed EBT: Assessment and facilitation in part of the programme
Baseline EBT: Facilitation throughout: the main change management task
Evidence expected by the authority
Mixed EBT: Modules delivered as approved
Baseline EBT: The cycle, the data behind it and what you changed as a result
Mixed EBT is usually a stage. Programmes that treat it as a permanent destination can carry the cost of both systems without the full benefit of either.
AeroEBT runs mixed and baseline EBT in the same system, so the move is a configuration change in the software; the programme change still needs your authority's approval.
See AeroEBTPrerequisites
Six things have to be true. Before you move to baseline EBT.
Ready to move
Instructors can facilitate, not only assess
The single biggest determinant of whether baseline EBT delivers. Budget for it first.
Concordance is measured
An adaptive programme driven by unreliable grades adapts to noise. See the concordance guide.
Your competency data is usable
Grades tied to observable behaviour, in one system, exportable, not spread across spreadsheets and PDFs.
Scenario coverage exists
Enough scenarios across the relevant training topics that the cycle can be built without improvisation.
Device capability is known
Each simulator's capability determines which parts of the cycle it can credit, now more than under item-based checking.
The authority is engaged early
Approval is a conversation about evidence. Starting it late is what delays programmes, not the paperwork.
AeroEBT shows each instructor's grading against your fleet baseline, from the grades instructors already enter.
Concordance in AeroEBTRoadmap
A realistic sequence. Five phases from mixed EBT to baseline EBT.
Durations depend on fleet size, instructor numbers and your authority. The order rarely changes.
Baseline
Establish what your current programme produces: competency distribution, concordance, scenario coverage and where the data lives.
Instructors
Facilitation and observation training, a referent-rater session and the first concordance measurement.
Programme design
Build the cycle, map scenarios to training topics and check each part against the devices available.
Authority submission
Programme, evidence and management system changes submitted, with the data that supports them.
Run and adapt
Deliver the cycle, review the data each cycle and show what the programme changed in response.
A typical AeroEBT rollout takes about 90 days from programme mapping to go-live, including a parallel run.
Your first 90 days with AeroEBTPitfalls
Where programmes stall. Four ways the move to baseline EBT slides back.
Facilitation treated as a briefing
Instructors who were trained to demonstrate and correct need real practice, not a slide deck.
Adapting to noisy data
Without measured concordance, the programme chases variation between instructors rather than real competency trends.
Sliding back to checking
Within two to three years, programmes drift toward the familiar unless someone watches the data and says so.
Two systems forever
Running paper alongside the platform beyond the parallel run doubles the work and halves the evidence.
AeroEBT monitors standardisation underneath one simple instructor procedure, and shows grading drift per instructor against the fleet baseline.
How AeroEBT keeps a programme from driftingWith AeroEBT
No break in the data. Mixed and baseline EBT in one system.
AeroEBT runs mixed and baseline EBT in the same system, so the move is a configuration change in the software rather than a new platform; the programme change still needs your authority's approval. Historical records stay with the pilot, instructors keep the same iPad workflow, and the migration timeline shows where the programme stands at each step.
- Pre-built baseline EBT programme template
- Scenario coverage checked against your regulatory references
- One pilot record across the transition
- Evidence pack for the authority produced from live data
Questions operators ask
How long does the move take?
For most operators it is measured in training cycles rather than weeks, because instructor development and evidence gathering set the pace. The programme design itself is the fastest part.
Do we need new simulators?
Usually not. You need to know what each device can credit, which matters more under baseline EBT and is exactly what the FSTD Capability Signature describes.
Can we run some fleets on baseline EBT and others on mixed?
Yes. It is a common way to stage the transition. The important thing is that the data from both is in one system so you can compare them.
What does the authority want to see first?
Evidence that you can collect, read and act on competency data, including instructor standardisation, before the cycle depends on it.
What do we submit, and when?
Your competent authority defines the content and the timing for your operation, so ask it early. In the roadmap above the submission is the fourth phase: the programme, the evidence behind it and the changes to your management system, with the data that supports them.
What if our instructors resist?
That is usually a signal that facilitation training came too late. Instructors who have run a good facilitated debrief rarely want to go back.
Plan the move, phase by phase.
A 30-minute demo covers where your programme is today, what baseline EBT would require and a realistic sequence.
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