AI Tool Now Available to Pilot Trainees

Aviation courseware creator, Padpilot, is making its multi-lingual, advanced AI study tool, The Padpilot Briefing Room (PBR), available to individual student pilots, not just pilot training schools.

Having launched the ‘smart ATPL assistant’ to training providers in November 2024, Padpilot now wants to make ATPL theory studies more productive for individual student pilots and instructors too.

"The Padpilot Briefing Room is a game changer”, said Nathan Gray, CEO of Padpilot. “You can instantly clarify a complex aspect of the syllabus, or use it to create test questions and lesson plans. It’s saving our partner schools a lot of time, and allowing students to study independently and efficiently - all safe in the knowledge it’ll only give you trusted Padpilot-approved content from our own ATPL(A) books.”

The Padpilot Briefing Room (PBR) is a next-generation AI-powered Smart Assistant. It uses Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) which combines a Large Language Model (LLM) with Padpilot’s knowledge vault of verified ATPL(A) training material. When a student or instructor types a question into the PBR, the system dynamically retrieves contextually relevant information from this domain-specific dataset, meaning every answer is solely generated from verifiable content – avoiding the potential errors and inconsistencies common in other AI models and general search queries.

The PBR also goes beyond simple question-answering. It can 'see' and explain images from Padpilot’s ATPL(A) books, as well as render complex maths formulae and tables. It can provide EASA Learning Objective and book chapter references with each answer given, facilitating further study, and is multilingual.