Among aviation training circles, you may have noticed the word ‘competence’ increasingly being used among your colleagues.   Within pilot training, the multi-crew pilot license (MPL) was the first competency-based license.  The MPL is now currently in use for many ab initio pilots around the globe. 

Yet, what is competence?  What does it mean and who defines what competence is?  It is increasingly clear that almost everyone involved in training and assessment has their own unique opinions and definitions of competency. Why are we moving towards...