Aircrew Cognitive Training
Procedure tells a crew what to do.
Cognition determines whether they do it under pressure.
COGVATION designs, builds, and governs cognitive-performance training for Part 121 and Part 135 flight crews and maintenance technicians, and cognitive-performance foundations for flight schools and university aviation programs — delivered as a contracted service, not a workshop and not an internal department.
Who We Are
A training company built from the operating environment outward.
Most cognitive-skills training sold to airlines was written for a general corporate audience and relabeled for aviation — the same scenarios and failure modes, with aviation vocabulary swapped in. Crews notice the gap immediately, and it undermines credibility before the training can change behavior.
COGVATION was founded to close that gap. It is a standalone company, 100% owned by its founder, Khaled M. Alossi — not a division, subsidiary, or department of any airline it serves. COGVATION designs, builds, and governs Aircrew Cognitive Training (ACT) for Part 121 and Part 135 operators, and builds equivalent cognitive-performance foundations for flight schools and university aviation programs, developed from the flight deck and hangar floor outward, not from a generic curriculum inward.
Who We Serve
Operational aircrews, and the programs that train the next generation.
The same cognitive-performance foundations, adapted to where a trainee sits in their career — from an academic flight deck to a revenue one.
Part 121
Airline Operators
Recurrent and initial ACT for scheduled-air-carrier pilots and maintenance technicians, integrated into an existing FAA-approved training program.
Part 135
Charter & Regional Operators
Cognitive-performance training scaled to on-demand and regional operating environments, where crews carry a wider range of decision authority.
Part 141
Flight Schools
Cognitive-performance foundations built into primary flight training, so the habits of focus, direction, and cognitive cooperation are established correctly the first time a student sits at the controls.
Academic
Universities
The same cognitive-performance foundations scaled into a four-year aviation degree program, giving pilots and maintenance technicians a head start before they ever reach an operator.
The Four Pillars
Aircrew Cognitive Training is built on four mental disciplines.
Three core competencies, and the practiced habit that makes them durable under real operational pressure.
01
Focus
The discipline of directing attention at what matters most, and holding it there as workload, fatigue, and distraction increase.
02
Direction
Turning attention into clear action: a stated plan, a complete briefing, a documented decision that leaves no ambiguity about what happens next.
03
Cognitive Cooperation
The structured practice of checking, questioning, and correcting one another in real time, so no single mind ever carries a critical decision alone.
04
Leadership
A habit practiced at every seat and every station, not a function of rank or title — an operation’s margin is only as strong as its least confident voice.
Our Model
A contracted service relationship — Build, Train, Govern.
Each stage depends on the one before it. What transfers to the client is capability — a certified instructor corps and a functioning governance council — never COGVATION’s staff or ownership.
01
Build
COGVATION designs the client’s ACT curriculum from the ground up — core competencies, scenario library, and assessment approach — built specifically for the client’s fleet and operating environment. Never a shared, off-the-shelf template.
02
Train
COGVATION certifies the client’s own instructors to deliver ACT directly to their pilots and maintenance technicians — an internal ACT Instructor Corps that carries the program forward, class after class.
03
Govern
COGVATION stands up a Cognitive Cooperation Council (CCC): a governance and event-review body that keeps the curriculum current against real operational events, long after the initial build.
Why Now
Evaluation across the industry is moving from maneuvers to competencies.
EASA and ICAO’s Evidence-Based Training (EBT) and Competency-Based Training and Assessment (CBTA) frameworks have shifted evaluation away from maneuver checklists toward core competencies — workload management, situation awareness, problem-solving, decision-making.
Airbus describes its own 2026 training redesign as a shift away from a traditional task-based philosophy toward an adaptable, data-driven, competency-based model for pilots and mechanics alike. NASA’s research on human-automation teaming frames the central safety question of the next decade as how people stay engaged, aware, and ready to intervene when supervising systems rather than operating them directly.
Flagship Engagement
The 121 — Aircrew Cognitive Training — Program
COGVATION’s first engagement is with a U.S. Part 121 regional airline partner, building an ACT curriculum grounded in the four pillars for its pilot and maintenance workforce.
Founder Credibility
Designed from inside the certification process it strengthens.
Khaled M. Alossi, COGVATION’s founder, is an active Part 121 Aircrew Program Designee (APD) on the Embraer E170 at a U.S. Part 121 regional carrier. That means ACT is designed by someone who sits inside the certification and evaluation process it is meant to strengthen — not an outside consultancy translating generic content into aviation vocabulary after the fact.
Get Started
Request a program briefing for your operation.
For training leaders, chief pilots, directors of safety, and accountable managers at Part 121 and Part 135 operators, flight schools, and university aviation programs.