Birdbird gives a ground school or a training department one consistent set of interactive theory, briefing material and type-rating preparation. Instructors can use it in the classroom, and students can repeat the same material on their own between lessons.
Three problems come up again and again in ground school and type training. None of them is about the students' effort.
Students pass the theory exams, then meet the same ideas in the aircraft and cannot use them. Cold-temperature altimeter error, Vmca or a take-off performance limit is easy to memorise and hard to picture.
Each instructor briefs a lesson in their own way. Students hear different words, different priorities and different minima for the same exercise, and spend effort working out what is actually expected.
Systems knowledge for a type rating usually comes from a thick manual and a list of questions. Students rarely get to operate the systems or answer an oral question before they sit in front of the examiner.
Everything below works today, in a normal web browser, on a classroom screen, a laptop or a phone.
25 interactive labs in 9 modules, from principles of flight to human performance. Each module follows an EASA ATPL theory subject, and every lab uses the A320 as its reference aircraft.
Open the learning path →Each lab is one page built around a live model: move a slider and the drawing and the numbers change with it. A ground school lesson can start from the same picture the student later revises with.
Example: pressure and altitude →VFR and IFR versions with planning minima, performance, mass and balance and fuel, plus printable kneeboard sheets. Route Explorer adds a terrain profile, 3D terrain and airspace for the planned route.
Open the briefing pack →Gate to gate, structured briefings (TSADMM and T-RIBETS), radio drills, a simulator and preparation for the A320 simulator assessment. The order of things is practised until it runs on its own.
Open training →A setup collects the material for one type: a question bank, cockpit system simulators and an oral exam. The King Air B200 type rating trainer, with 320 questions, is the working example.
See the B200 trainer →Flight Intelligence answers from the student's own documents, such as the AFM, QRH and SOP, and shows the passage each answer is built on. The documents are processed and stored in the student's own browser.
Open Flight Intelligence →The learning path follows the order of a theory course. The table shows which EASA ATPL(A) theory subject each module supports.
| Module | ATPL subject | Labs |
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Air law (010) and operational procedures (070) have no lab of their own; they appear inside the briefing pack and the training pages. Communications (090) is practised in the radio drills.
Birdbird sits beside an approved course and its material. The same student can use it from the first instrument lessons to the airline simulator check.
ScopeBirdbird is training material. It does not replace approved course material, the AFM or the operator's procedures, and it carries no regulatory approval.
Planned, not available yetThe items below are what is being worked on for schools and operators. None of them is available today, and no dates are promised.
One account per school, with student logins, so progress follows the student between devices instead of staying in one browser.
An overview of each student's progress through the labs, tests and type-rating material, so an instructor can see where to spend the next lesson.
Instructor setups made from the school's or operator's own SOP, checklists and aircraft, in the same way as the B200 example.
Progress and results exported in a format a school's existing learning management system can import.
If you run a ground school, a training organisation or a type-rating course and want to use Birdbird with your students, get in touch.