EATS 2024 Recap
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By Halldale Group Staff
Halldale Group’s most successful EATS conference has concluded. A well-crafted schedule across the Pilot, Cabin Crew, ATO and Maintenance tracks and the robust interaction among exhibitors and delegates produced a number of lessons learned and action points. These outcomes will inform our decisions as we finalize the agenda content for our 2025 events – WATS, APATS and EATS, and influence our CAT 2025 editorial program.
Five major points we’re reflecting on shortly after the conference concluded this November 7 include:
Technology. Buckle up. XR, AI, data and other learning enablers are gaining speed across the aviation training enterprise. VR, AR and MR are part of programs of record and R&D activities. And then there is AI – increasingly prominent in activities, as we learned in Pilot Conference Session 5 (AI/Data) and other sessions, and widely discussed at conference floor exhibition booths. While there has been a quantum leap forward in advancing AI’s baseline technology when compared to EATS 2023, the message of Dr. Ana Vieira de Mata, Chairwoman of the Board at Portuguese CAA still resonates loud and clear: the regulator voiced her interest in security, the impact of AI on jobs and skills, and other challenges and opportunities, as the technology quickly matures. Much as we have seen in CAT companion program MS&T, the increasing volumes of data generated in simulator sessions and across other learning activities remain a vital foundation for AI.
Workforce. Community stakeholders have taken aboard the forecasts about the increasing, projected gaps between supply and demand across the aviation community through the next decade. At the same time, training enterprises are stepping-up their efforts to recruit, train and retain the ranks of current professionals. The Day 2 (November 7) Women in Aviation Training Meeting and Maintenance Session 2 (Challenges for the Future) were among the EATS agenda sessions designed to highlight the imperative to recruit the best and brightest Gen Z and other aspiring workforce members – and, at the same time, optimize retention plans among industry veterans.
New Training Approaches. Comprehensive competency-based training and assessment (CBTA) is elevating the bar on training, beyond the successful, earlier evidence-based training design. CBTA is foundation of training up to the OEM level as we again learned from Captain Stephan Labrucherie in Pilot Session 5 and other speakers, and is certain to spread throughout learning enterprises through this decade. As significant, a number of presenters equated safety and training, further breaking down the separation between the two heretofore rigid verticals.
Let’s Try Something New in Training. Innovation is alive and well elsewhere in the broad training enterprise, often in strategies not making headlines in the 24/7 news cycle.
It was great to see to Davy Snowden, MBE, (Pristine Condition International) suggest new ways to lift and perform other onboard tasks – and avoid injuries – to assembled Cabin Crew Session 3 delegates. Delim Dores (LAS Maintenance) and Moncia Teixeira (LAS Training) encouraged Maintenance Session 3 attendees to more fully consider emotions and other like strategies in their programs.
Heads of Training/ATO. At “D-1” (November 5), we convened Pilot and Cabin Crew Heads of Training Meetings. The outcomes of these sessions will be offered to influence community decision-making processes. We will share HOT meeting highlights as they become available.
At “D-1” (November 5), we convened Pilot and Cabin Crew Heads of Training Meetings. The outcomes of these sessions will be offered to influence community decision-making processes. We will share ATLF (Airline Training Leaders Forum) highlights as they become available. To apply to join a HoT and gain an overview of one group, please visit: https://www.halldale.com/heads-of-training.
This year’s ATO program mirrored the content of the Pilot track in many ways. Embracing new technology such as VR/AR, and incorporating principals of CBTA, were reflected in the presentations. In addition, improving training outcomes by examining gender, GEN Z characteristics, and instructor bias were also discussed.
Conference Programs and More
Alongside the conference programs, EATS continues to be the primary event for networking within the aviation training community in Europe, consistently cited as a critical and key element of the event. This, in addition to the exhibition, showcasing the latest technologies and services, guarantees that EATS will continue to lead training discussions now, and into the future.
If you would like to find out more about speaking opportunities, exhibition space or joining our next event, please visit: https://www.halldale.com/events/halldale-live-events.
