Company Used Innovation Preview To Show New Way To Think About Flight Training
Adriana Barragán, founder of Fly ORCA, told the Aero-News exclusive Innovation Preview at SUN ’n FUN that, “Flight training today is still very inefficient… and that’s one of the big problems we’re trying to address.”
Barragán believes flight training today isn’t optimized for learning; rather, it’s optimized for checking boxes, too focused on certification and not on education. She said the training pipeline is not keeping up with the huge demand for pilots today, and a lot of it comes down to access to aircraft, access to instructor and access to structured training.
“Students spend a lot of time waiting … waiting for airplanes, waiting for instructors, waiting for availability,” she told the preview group. “We’re looking at how to make that process more streamlined—more standardized—so students can move through training more efficiently. If you can improve utilization of the aircraft and instructors, you can train more pilots with the same resources. “Technology plays a role in that—whether it’s scheduling, curriculum, or how training is delivered.”
She discussed the company’s flight-training efficiency system, which unlocks higher efficiency with software called the FlyORKA flight-training companion app. It allows students to track performance of each flight and analyze progress so “students learn faster instead of just accumulating time” and putting data into traditional logbooks.
Bottom line, it is a flight-training optimization app that uses data, tracking, and structured learning to make pilot training more efficient for students and instructors, Barragán said.
FMI: ww.flyorka.com
