Innovative Flight Instruction

Safer pilots make better decisions.

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  •  Choose your flight lesson mission

  •  Learn to manage risk and information

  •  Become a better decision maker

“Train the way you fly, and fly the way you train.”

What is
Mission Based Training?

The student chooses the mission

Mission Based Training is a form of Scenario Based Training but instead of being given a motivational scenario, the student develops their own mission motivation.  They decide where, when, and why they want to fly.  Our students feel invested in their flight lesson so the decision making process that a student learns becomes more impactful and effective. 

Pilots learn risk management and aeronautical decision making skills more effectively when the decisions they face and the consequences of their decisions are as realistic as possible.  Real missions force student pilots to make real decisions that result in better learning outcomes that enhance safety.

“Learning activities must be realistic and authentic to the pilot, in other words, the pilot should believe that it is something that could actually occur and it is undisputed”.
   – Scenario Based Training, Training Module-Inspectors: A Guide for Inspectors, Designated Examiners, and Flight Instructors on the Implementation and Philosophy of FITS

Our goal is to make you a better risk manager and safer cross-country pilot not just simply prepare you for the Private Pilot’s check ride.  Mission Based Training emphasizes Aeronautical Decision Making skills (ADM) and Single-pilot Resource Management (SRM).

Actual missions provide the best place to learn and develop effective decision making skills.  The competing pressures of real world events provide an excellent training environment that is difficult to match in simulated scenarios.

We’re guessing you’re here because you want to learn aeronautical skills that will help you go somewhere.   We are focused on customers who wants to become “travelling pilots”, or people who wants to use a high performance, technically advanced aircraft, like a Cirrus SR22 or Cessna Corvalis TTx as a transportation tool. Our goals are to implement training that reduces pilot error and accelerates acquisition of higher-order thinking skills required for aeronautical decision-making. Our focus is to reduce exposure to risk by improving each pilot’s decision-making skills.

We train our students, from the beginning, in high performance aircraft with modern avionics.  Today’s technically advanced aircraft like the Cirrus SR22 and Cessna TTx are built for cross country missions.  Our students learn to use the powerful advanced “glass panel” avionics that give cross country pilots an informational advantage.  We think that, for students who want to become “travelling pilots”, that it’s more effective to begin learning on technically advanced, high performance aircraft, rather than transitioning from platform to platform.

Mission Based Training also provides an excellent platform to teach learners how to use all of the available information systems at their disposal on a cross country flight.  Modern, technically advanced aircraft have robust technology that needs to be effectively programmed and well managed in order to maximize safety.

LTFAIR provides you with the physical, maneuver based skills needed for flying.  We build and develop these physical skills in concert with cognitive decision making and resource management skills.  Students have many opportunities to practice maneuvers on cross country missions. Our instructors teach maneuver based skills in the context of a mission.  Our students can also schedule additional time as necessary specifically to focus on maneuver based skills building.

The feedback process for students is important.  Most of our students see themselves as lifelong learners and want to self-evaluate. We involve students in their own evaluation through a learner centered approach. Instructors and students engage in thoughtful conversations that lead to insight and improvement.


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