Cognos Competency
From regulation to competence.
Identify the training your organisation actually needs and connect it directly to the right training solution. Cognos Competency analyses the applicable training and competence requirements, taking into account the organisation’s profile, its approvals, roles and aircraft.
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Being trained does not simply mean having taken a course
In aviation, a person is properly prepared when they hold the competences needed to perform their role, know the applicable procedures, and keep those competences current.
But organisations face a much harder question: is our staff genuinely trained in everything needed to meet the applicable requirements? Answering it means cross-referencing multiple sources and variables.
Regulation changes
And with it the requirements you have to meet.
New aircraft arrive
New aircraft and technologies bring needs of their own.
Roles evolve
Jobs and responsibilities do not stand still.
Findings expose gaps
An audit can surface needs nobody had planned for.
The real challenge is not having a course catalogue. It is knowing which competences each organisation needs, and why.
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The complexity lives in the regulation
Finding the requirement is only the beginning. Training and competence requirements are not always stated directly: they can be spread across regulations, Implementing Rules, AMC/GM and ED Decisions.
And how they apply depends on each organisation’s specific context. A Part-145 organisation does not have the same needs as a CAMO, and a design organisation under Part-21 presents different profiles and responsibilities. Roles, approvals, aircraft and activities determine which requirements genuinely apply.
Doing that cross-reference by hand, requirement by requirement and post by post, can become one of the most demanding processes in training management.
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Cognos Competency turns regulatory requirements into actionable competences
It starts from the organisation’s real profile and uses artificial intelligence to identify the EASA training and competence requirements that may apply. From there it turns regulatory information into a structured view of training needs.
01 · Organisation profile
Type of approval, applicable Parts, roles and aircraft.
02 · EASA requirements
Identification of the applicable training and competence requirements.
03 · Competences
Translation of those requirements into concrete training needs.
04 · Recurrence
How often the training must be repeated or refreshed.
05 · Visionair training
A direct link to the course that covers the identified need.
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From need to training: the tool closes the loop
Cognos Competency does not stop once it identifies a requirement. Its value shows when it connects that requirement to a concrete training solution.
01 — Identify
Determine the EASA training and competence requirements according to the organisation’s profile.
02 — Translate
Turn those requirements into competence needs that apply to the organisation’s context.
03 — Set the recurrence
Establish the periodicity attached to each training need, to help keep the competence current.
04 — Connect
Link each identified need to the Visionair course that can cover it.
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A clear view of your competence needs
Cognos Competency lets you move from management based purely on courses to management based on real competence needs.
Requirement
What does the regulation demand?
Competence
What must our people know, or be able to do?
Recurrence
How often must we maintain or refresh that competence?
Training
Which training can cover that need?
This perspective replaces the question “what courses do we have?” with a far more useful one: “which competences does our organisation need, how often, and where can we build them?”.
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Intelligence identifies the need. Visionair provides the training.
Cognos Competency is connected to the Visionair training ecosystem. The organisation does not only receive an identification of the requirement: it also gets a direct link to specialised training.
The areas covered include Part-21, Part-145, Part-M / CAMO, Part-66 / Part-147, operations, safety and auditing. That way the process does not end with a report: the detected need can turn directly into a training action.
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A worked example: a Part-145 organisation
Picture a maintenance organisation that needs to review its training needs. Cognos Competency starts from its organisational profile and analyses the applicable requirements, following a simple logic: Part-145 → applicable EASA requirements → competence needs → training recurrence → Visionair course.
The training, compliance or safety manager ends up with a structured basis for planning the organisation’s training needs.
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Built for those who manage people, competence and compliance
Training Managers
Identify the training needs that follow from the organisation’s profile and activity.
Compliance Managers
Relate regulatory requirements to competence needs.
Safety Managers
Fold training needs into a wider view of competence and safety.
Quality Managers
Work from a structured basis when reviewing training-related needs and evidence.
Aviation organisation leaders
Get an overall view of which competences the organisation needs and how to build them.
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AI does not replace the manager. It lets them decide better informed.
Cognos Competency is designed as an assistance tool. Artificial intelligence helps identify and relate complex regulatory information, but responsibility for competence management and decision-making stays with the organisation and its managers. The aim is not to automate professional judgement: it is to cut the manual work needed to reach it.
The Cognos solutions are developed under an approach of governance, evaluation, oversight and continuous improvement, taking as a reference the principles of ISO/IEC 42001 and considering the European regulatory framework applicable to artificial intelligence. In Cognos Competency this matters especially, because its results may be used to support processes related to staff training and competence.
AI identifies. The professional validates. The organisation decides.
Start from a different question
Do not start by asking which courses you need. Start by asking which competences your organisation needs: Cognos Competency helps you find the answer, connecting regulation, competence and training — three things that are traditionally managed separately.
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