OpenSKY Academy
Training products for aircraft maintenance.
Our services
Committed to helping you retain your engineers and engage new talent.
OpenSKY Academy offers your aircraft maintenance organisation a range of industry-leading training products and support services.
AeroSkills Pass & IgniteLab
Our industry-led training and assessment framework blends the Part-66 self-study material seamlessly with practical experience on your aircraft, enabling your trainees to thrive.
Technical Assessment
Whether you want to benchmark your engineers or assess for recruitment, we provide online and on-site technical assessment packages to suit your needs.
Training Design Consultancy
Implementing the latest in educational and regulatory methodologies, we offer detailed audit and analysis of training systems to ensure relevancy, compliance and resilience.
Practical Training Aids
High quality representative aircraft components and systems available for training and assessment, delivered to your hangar.
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Filling the practical skills gaps.
Regulators and industry regularly acknowledge practical skills gaps during formal training, creating a major capability gap for MRO operations, and requiring employers to shoulder the cost and time burden of intensive hands-on upskilling.
AeroSkills Pass delivers a benchmarked, industry-led competence pathway that builds safe working habits, correct tool control, and strong engineering fundamentals through repeatable, hands-on tasks with clear performance criteria. The AeroSkills Pass standard is designed to be transferable across the industry, creating a recognisable level of practical skill and competence, resulting in productive onboarding, consistent workmanship, and greater confidence on the hangar floor.
GROW
Attracting and retaining the right people has been a challenge since the turn of the century. OpenSKY Academy offers a flexible apprenticeship framework to provide a clear, affordable pathway deigned to meet the learning needs of young people.
Bring in new talent
You don’t need us to explain the growing global crisis in attracting aircraft maintenance engineers to the industry, especially for small- to medium-sized maintenance organisations where competition with airline training schemes and high costs of approved training are slowly squeezing the talent pipeline.
IMMERSE
Changing the Part-66 game
The elephant in the room? Current training systems are outdated and haven’t yet caught up with today’s preferred learning culture. So how do we make Part-66 materials attractive to digital natives?
At OpenSKY Academy, we are bringing aircraft maintenance to life by leveraging the latest immersive and interactive tech, built on a structured and gamified learner-led approach.
TRAIN
Upskilling your capability and capacity
Finding time and experience to train your staff in compliance and company approval courses can be difficult at the best of times, let alone budget for it them. Often, the default becomes dry online training offerings.
OpenSKY Academy offers on-site delivery of a suite of courses designed to meet the contexts of our clients. From operating an aircraft radio for engine running and taxi, to updates on the latest technical records and CAMO regulations and best practices, OpenSKY Academy has courses to suit and form the basis for issue of a company approval. Not only do our interactive courses generate genuine learning but also help in recognising competence in experienced staff, building confidence and supporting your staff retention.
Our Mission
Our mission is to drive the quality, relevance and accessibility of aircraft maintenance training up, and drive the costs and barriers of training down.
Dream Team
Together, our amazing team has over 200 years experience in aircraft maintenance, flight ops, learning & development, business, graphic design and software development. A potent mix for producing disruptive training materials!
Our Values
We are passionate about the aerospace industry as a whole. We value collaboration, transparency, simplicity and fun.
We also value and support the superpower that aviation provides humanitarian relief around the world.
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