6 months with ASSA-AC paved the way for me to grow in the regulation field of global aviation. Hereby is a a summary of my internship
Concept: Design a competency-based training program for aviation safety inspectors in Central Africa Region
Domains PEL, OPS, AIR, AGA
Publish the inspector training program is compulsory for CAA to maintain and educate a number of qualified inspectors in conducting safety oversight functions since it is required in critical element number 4 of ICAO. As a Regional Safety Oversight Organisation in Central Africa, ASSA-AC is presentative for 11 competent authorities in publishing this training program. Since this is a high demand, especially in the fast-growing of aviation industry, the project is required to put in place good manners in terms of addressing the current training problems of ASSA-AC while keeping up to date with ICAO requirements as well as maintaining an equivalent quality of training in comparison with others CAA inspector training program.
This project, therefore, covers ICAO requirements while creating effective training with a new approach, namely the Competency-Based Training (CBT) program with 4 main deliveries. To accomplish this expectation, first of all, the job tasks of inspectors are carefully analysed by each domain. Then, these job tasks are grouped and put in place according to the 8 critical elements concept of ICAO. Secondly, according to each job task, competency is proposed by using Bloom Taxonomy thanks to its benefits demonstrated globally in forming training programs, followed by other referenced research in the training development of FAA, EASA, and other CAAs. Then, these competencies are categorised into 2 groups including general and specific competencies which aims to make training easier in practice. To be more specific, the general competencies will consider being acquired for 4 domains, while specific competencies will be dependent on each domain. Thirdly, the training module is formed by giving the road map of the training procedure followed by courses. Finally, the assessment method is proposed by taking references from Bloom Taxonomy and VENN model ( proposed by IATA).
Overall, the project and reports showed ASI tasks, competencies to carry out tasks, training modules, procedures to design training, difficulties face, limitations, qualification standards and pain points which have failures and mistakes. The training program is expected to put into practice and improve by seeing its efficiency. Moreover, this training program can be used as a reference for training developer descendants in the future.