Establishment and Validation of Flight Crew Training Cost Model

Abstract

As one of the important part of civil aircraft’s life cycle cost, training cost is the key factor for manufacturer’s consideration of market competitiveness and for airline’s aircraft procurement. A mathematical model of flight crew training cost is established to study the impact of cockpit layout, human machine interface and operational procedure to different type of aircraft’s flight crew training cost. This model is validated by using typical aircraft’s training cost and can be used to explain and predict flight crew’s training time.