Training partnerships

Training for the human side of leadership

Scenario-based modules built on the practical experience of a serving line captain and type rating examiner on the A350 and A380. Developed to your fleet, your routes, and your crews — first officers and captains alike. Licensed for internal use.

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The gap

Frameworks made the problem visible. They didn't close it.

Technical skill is usually strong. The human performance dimension is harder — how pilots communicate under pressure, how first officers intervene, how command authority is exercised in practice. CBTA and EBT have made this gap more measurable. Content that addresses it at depth is still scarce.

The objective isn't compliance. It's performance — the specific behaviours the frameworks are trying to produce.

What a module includes

One topic, fully built

01Video module

Scenario-based, built around a real operational situation, with structured pause points for discussion.

02Scenario pack

For classroom or simulator briefing and debriefing.

03Facilitation guide

For your instructors, so the module runs consistently across a training department.

04EBT competency mapping

Each scenario mapped to the ICAO core competencies, with observable behaviours to assess against.

05Reference material

The research base, sourced and cited, with one consolidated round of revision within 60 days.

06Standard or tailored

Off the shelf in a white-tail aircraft, or rebuilt to your fleet, livery, aerodrome, and SOPs.

Modules are built one problem at a time. If your event data point to a specific behaviour — intervention and assertiveness, flight-path monitoring, command decision-making, standardisation — a module can be built around it, to your context and mapped to your competencies.

Mach Talk retains the intellectual property. Operators receive a non-exclusive licence for internal flight crew training, so content stays current rather than fixed at the point of delivery. Anything you share is treated as confidential; where a module draws on a sensitive event, James edits that footage himself.

Why Mach Talk

Built from inside the assessment process

James is an Airbus captain and type rating examiner on the A350 and A380. As an examiner, he assesses pilots against the exact competency framework these modules are designed to develop — so the content is built from the inside of the process, not from outside it. He still flies the line on the fleets he examines, so the material carries current operational reality rather than a view from retirement.

The Mach Talk YouTube channel is a public demonstration of the approach. Operators are encouraged to review it as part of any evaluation.

A350 · A380

Type rating examiner

EBT

Competency-mapped

Enquiries

Start with a conversation about your context

Priority topics, command cohort profile, and where the gap sits for your operation. No cost, no obligation — a proposal follows only if it's the right fit.

james@mach-talk.com