CAE is entering into a partnership with Austin, Texas-based The LOSA Collaborative to enhance its evidence-based training offering. Through an exclusive service agreement, The LOSA Collaborative will perform Line Operations Safety Audits (LOSA) of CAE customer-operators. The insights and data gleaned from the safety audits, combined with CAE's training data, will allow CAE to offer tailored pilot training programmes and benchmarked operational and training performance insights to operators.

“We are thrilled to continue to shape the future of pilot training with partnerships like the one we now have with The LOSA Collaborative. This partnership brings safety auditing expertise to our customers and will also reinforce our CAE Rise Training System,” comments Nick Leontidis, CAE's group president, civil aviation training solutions. “Collecting data and insights from line operations and training is key to the development and assessment of pilot competencies. We are bringing pilot training full circle by closing the loop between operations and training data. This enables us to further build a robust data-driven training ecosystem that will support continuous improvement, provide a true measure of the effectiveness of training and have a positive impact on aviation safety worldwide.”

“Our audit findings from 85 airlines, helicopter and military operators around the world combined with CAE's training data will allow operators, instructional systems designers, and safety and quality practitioners to focus their work on data driven threats to aviation safety,” adds Dr. James Klinect, founder and CEO of The LOSA Collaborative. “With our partnership with CAE, we are formally bridging the gap between proactive safety data and training solutions. There is nothing else like it in the aviation industry.”