Safe, on-time flights run on crew competence.
Maintaining it is still slow, manual work.
gradient reads your records, spots what is changing and follows every initiative through. It lets your decision makers focus on setting the direction and deciding.
Workload in the descent is slipping on the 737 since March, on all three bases.
Pilot competence keeps your airline flying.
Most of the work behind it still happens in people’s heads.
Checks are moving from paper to PDF. That digitizes only the first layer, the data. Everything above it still runs on memory, spreadsheets and email.
The work that keeps your crews ready to fly.
Selecting, training, checking and keeping every pilot current: the people your whole operation depends on, supported by five layers of work.
Most of it is still done by hand.
Only the data is partly digital. Follow each layer, from data to execution, and see what gradient adds.
It reads what you already have.
It reads the world around you: the pulse check.
It does the counting, and keeps track.
It drafts the fix.
You decide.
It follows through.
Partly digital: in an average airline of 300 pilots, each pilot is checked several times a year. The reports sit as paper or PDF, in a records system and spreadsheets.
Reads all of it, as it is. Nothing is replaced.
Someone reads everything: EASA, your authority, IATA, manufacturers, incident reports. All of it generic, then passed on by email to everyone, or no one.
Filtered through your airline: what matters, for whom, right now. A short brief with the impact on you, and a suggested action.
Someone exports, pastes and counts, when there is time. A drift from March is found at the October review.
Grades computed after every check, by fleet, base and competency. A drift is flagged while there is time to act.
A fix from memory and a meeting, with little evidence.
A drafted fix with owners, dates and the evidence behind it.
Taken late, on a picture that is weeks old.
Still yours. Now taken early, with the evidence in front of you.
Emails and reminders. Ten minutes of work takes two days, and nobody can show it worked.
Asks, reminders and the measured result, kept on record.
gradient runs every layer but one.
The decision stays with your people.
Every check is read, as it is.
Inside, the reports you already keep. Outside, the pulse check keeps only what touches your fleet and your programme.
- Check reports64 PDFs
- Examiner remarks41
- Rostersynced
- Flight datagroup totals
- Incident report, another operatorUnstable approach, 737matches your trend
- Authority bulletinRecurrent training topicsalready in your programme
- Manufacturer noteA350 cabin systemsnot your fleet
Three bases each saw a little. Together, one trend.
Grades are counted after every check, by fleet, base and competency. Groups under 10 are never shown.
The fix is drafted from your people’s answers.
The cause is rarely in the data alone. gradient asks the people who know, in the tools they already use.
- FCFleet chief 737Any roster or route change since March?answeredin gradient
- SASafety data analystApproach figures by month, group totalsuploadedby email
- FIFleet chief instructorThe spring simulator scenarioasked againin gradient
The head of training is reviewing descent workload on the 737 fleet.
Needed: unstable approaches by month since March, as group totals only. No names, no flight numbers.
Upload to gradient →Takes about five minutes · the link opens only this requestNothing starts until a person approves.
Your head of training approves, edits or declines. Sign-offs and the change assessment sit in the same place.
gradient never decides. It records who did, and why.
Followed through, measured, on record.
It books, reminds and chases until it is done. The next checks show whether it worked.
- ✓Exercise in the June simulator cycledone
- ✓Crew briefing · 140 of 140done
- ↻Reminder to Base C · 3 pendingchased
Example figures.
What gradient notices, suggests, and guides through to the result.
Six sample initiatives.
Softer landings for new captains.
Captains promoted October to March land hard 2.3× more often than the rest of the fleet.
↻ See the possible initiativeSofter landings for new captains.
Captains promoted October to March land hard 2.3× more often than the rest of the fleet.
Possible initiativeFour extra landing sectors with a line training captain, and a flare session at the next simulator check.
Calmer approaches, on record.
The safety review board sent training a flight-data trend: more high-energy approaches since spring.
↻ See the possible initiativeCalmer approaches, on record.
The safety review board sent training a flight-data trend: more high-energy approaches since spring.
Possible initiativeA high-energy scenario in the next simulator cycle, briefed to every 737 crew. Decide now; add Base B at the three-month check.
Six bases. One standard.
Examiners at one base grade manual flying a grade above the other five.
↻ See the possible initiativeSix bases. One standard.
Examiners at one base grade manual flying a grade above the other five.
Possible initiativeOne standardisation day: everyone sees the spread of grades, agrees the standard, then grades again.
Back in shape before summer.
Crews back from the winter break score lower at their first check. Three needed a repeat last April.
↻ See the possible initiativeBack in shape before summer.
Crews back from the winter break score lower at their first check. Three needed a repeat last April.
Possible initiativeA refresher session in March for every returning crew. Plan the 38 now; add the two when their dates are set.
An audit finding, closed on evidence.
The authority wants proof that last year’s corrective action on stabilised approaches worked.
↻ See the possible initiativeAn audit finding, closed on evidence.
The authority wants proof that last year’s corrective action on stabilised approaches worked.
Possible initiativeSend the pack now with the effect measured, and note the e-learning records as following on a date.
Next year’s programme, from this year’s checks.
This year’s checks and line observations point to the same two weak areas: manual flying after an automation failure, and crosswind landings.
↻ See the possible initiativeNext year’s programme, from this year’s checks.
This year’s checks and line observations point to the same two weak areas: manual flying after an automation failure, and crosswind landings.
Possible initiativeBuild next year’s recurrent programme around those two areas, with the evidence attached for the authority.
How crew training is supported today.
gradient works alongside it.
- Builds on your records, as they arelike your records system
- Answers in secondslike an assistant
- Knows how airlines run traininglike a consultant
- And stays, after every checkonly gradient
| OPC_737_B2_0412.pdf | 12 Apr |
| LPC_737_A1_0419.pdf | 19 Apr |
| OPC_737_C3_0502.pdf | 2 May |
| and 61 more files |
“I found 3 documents that mention 737 workload: a training memo from 2024, a meeting note and a slide deck. Here is a summary of each.”
Takes from records systemsEvery check, kept safely and by the rules.
Builds on topgradient reads those checks together, sees a trend across bases, and follows the fix through.
Takes from AI assistantsAnswers in seconds, in plain language.
Builds on topgradient knows your fleets, bases and programme, and keeps track between questions.
Takes from consultantsExperience from many airlines and a clear view of what works.
Builds on topgradient is there after every check, on your own data, long after a project would end.
From pilot training and airline strategy, at a European full-service carrier.
Built from inside an airline.
By the people who do this work.
