haul flights to study for recurrent training, while students could employ them in hotels during layovers, for example. Boeing Flight Services is in the process of taking some of its flight operations products and transforming them into mobile-friendly apps, such as an integrated quick-reference handbook and onboard performance tools. On a longer range, the company will start creating new training content with mobile learning in mind. The goal is to make training more interactive, possibly including some gaming-based technology in the apps as well in the future. "We are all on this journey of moving from paper to digital, so what we are trying to do from a training perspective is to move things from the desktop to something that is more mobile and accessible so that the data works really well on the device," Carbary explained. "Paper doesn't provide you with any feedback. Digital apps are getting better and better to be able to provide that feedback and situational awareness and give you a better teaching experience." While enhancing the training experience, mobile apps also help address the aviation industry's need to change the way it trains, especially for the next generation of pilots, Carbary pointed out. However, the industry must collectively work together to establish the same kind of standards for mobile learning applications as it has for more traditional training content.
One App Does it All Just as iPads serve as the repository for operational apps in the cockpit, one of the latest trends is to have an app that is the one-stop training tool which serves as the library for every app students and pilots would ever need. With more than 500 apps for Apple mobile devices listed on AviatorApps (http://aviatorapps.com), for example, these one-stop apps seek to end the confusion of choosing the best apps for operations and training. One of the most recent everythingapps, just released this August is Aerosim's ETHOS Pilot Training Suite, which provides cockpit and aircraft systems familiarization and procedure training, along with a fully simulated FMS trainer. ETHOS also includes the company's previously released Checkride exam self-study guide. The first ETHOS version to be released is for the Airbus A320 aircraft. According to Aerosim's product marketing manager Erik Tobler, the app was designed to be used by students before their full flight simulator sessions to help address a training gap. "We continue to see that specifically for airline pilot training, there continues to be a struggle where once the flight crews get into a full flight simulator, there is still a group of pilots that are still struggling with the FMS or also even procedures. ETHOS basically harnesses what students would use at the training center and puts all of that into
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the hands of the user. There [in students' iPads], with repeated practice, there can be better preparation and more mastering of systems, the FMS and procedures well before the full flight simulator." Like most apps, ETHOS resides natively on the mobile device and only needs to be connected online for linking to the Aerosim learning management system (LMS) and for updates. In the future, the company hopes to add additional training suites to the app, such as those specifically for recurrent training or AQP. Another everything-app designed to be a toolbox to consolidate the functions of a number of free-standing apps is the latest version of eKneeBoard developed by Anywhere Education. According to Mike Shiflett, the company's director of Aviation Content and former CEO of MS Aviation, the app includes all operational charts and such things as a flight planner to function as an EFB while including mobile versions of classroom courseware. Depending on what a flight school might want to include, it can also feature a resource management system app for the scheduling and dispatch of the flight schools training aircraft, for example. "So you can see that it is really designed to be one place to go to for just about everything a pilot or instructor needs to do on a daily basis," Shiflett said. "Flight schools can add on to it to customize whatever they want to put
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