A trend for maintenance trainees in emergent countries is to spend more time studying aircraft systems online before attending a type-specific maintenance course abroad.


technician didn’t grow up in their garages turning wrenches, they were playing video games on computers.” Too true. The way today’s ‘twenty-something’ technician learns is light years removed from the way we all learned in the “dark” (pre- Interweb and iPad) days. Their attention spans aren’t long if they’re not visually and informationally stimulated. And few things are less stimulating than hour upon hour of PowerPoint slides and diagrams on how a particular inspection is preformed.


“When we look at how traditional maintenance training has been done, it’s usually in several phases,” Ms. Sutcliff said. “Theoretical instruction in the classroom—chalk and talk, if you will—instructor lead instruction on concepts and theories. Then the student progresses on to the procedural steps where they get their hands-on training on how to do the mechanical task.” “Our big picture vision is about transforming the way people share knowledge and where that applies at the aviation maintenance level is we are doing this by making it easier, faster and better for organizations to create interactive, 3D, virtual maintenance training solutions.” she said. “It’s really much more intuitive for the students.”


That was Then. This is Now… What NGRAIN has done is to essentially provide a technology that allows theory and practice to be delivered simultaneously. “So the gap that used to exist between learning the theory and putting that theory into practice is now removed,” Ms. Sutcliff said. “For example, they can do a system orientation using 3D models, parts overviews, fluid and flow training—that sort of thing. The students will actually see how it all works together.”


22 Aviation Maintenance | avm-mag.com | May 2013


Mechanics are technology savvy today and are responding to online and on-demand training.


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