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Adrianne Fleming

Adrianne Fleming

Head of Operations and Chief Flying Instructor at Tristar Aviation; co-founder of Australia's oldest single-ownership flight training school; Order of Australia Medal (OAM) recipient.

Jul 17, 2026

Adrian YoungMODERATOR
9:02
So are current competency-based models still fit for purpose, or are they limiting how pilots develop capability?
9:09
I went round on my Churchill Fellowship to look at competency-based models and see what people do with competency-based training, and the first thing I'm going to say is, if we're ever going to do it, I call it my, um, purple banana theory, is you're going to listen to me now because I'm going to tell you about my purple banana theory.
9:27
But if I'm going to tell you about my competency-based theory, you've all got a theory already in your mind about what it is.
9:33
So what you do in competencies training, Malcolm, I'm sure what you do, what you do, are all different.
9:38
From my perspective, it's definitely limiting because we could definitely do it better.
9:42
We could harmonize it.
9:43
So what happens, even if we look at the competencies that we're actually using, you know, the eight ICAO competencies that you use are not the competencies that I use.

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Adrian YoungMODERATOR
31:12
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