Skywise expands its portfolio with the launch of enhanced digital flight training solutions

Skywise, an Airbus digital services company, announces a major expansion of its portfolio, bringing Airbus’ digital flight training solutions, including the MATe Suite (Mobile Airbus Training experience), the Virtual Procedure Trainer (VPT), and Flight eLearning into the Skywise portfolio.

Building on Skywise’s mission to accelerate digital transformation across aviation, this integration brings pilot training into Skywise’s unified digital ecosystem as part of the strategic reorganisation of Airbus’s digital business portfolio launched with the creation of Skywise, the unified company born from the merger of Navblue and Skywise Digital Solutions earlier this year.

Streamlined access via Skywise hosting platform to enhance user access (training managers, operators) to the solutions, Skywise is deploying a highly flexible hosting platform. Whether supporting aviation training professionals managing curricula or pilots preparing for type rating and recurrent training, this platform simplifies end-user registration and access control while ensuring full service continuity and zero disruption to active customer deployments.

Skywise MATe Suite: flexible, cloud-based ground training

Formerly known as the Airbus MATe Suite, the Skywise MATe Suite is an enhanced cloud-based solution for the Airbus A320, A330, and A350 aircraft families. Designed to deliver portable and self-paced distance learning, the solution allows trainees to familiarise themselves with the cockpit layout and master theoretical concepts via System Knowledge Modules (SKM) in an interactive 3D environment.

The MATe Suite offers comprehensive coverage of aircraft engines, models, and system differences through dedicated familiarisation briefings, together with certificates of completion. Trainees can seamlessly track their learning progress and evaluate their aircraft systems knowledge using the built-in Examination System.
Virtual Procedure Trainer (VPT): immersive cockpit familiarisation

Designed to optimise Flight Simulation Training Device (FSTD) sessions, Skywise VPT empowers pilots to build procedural knowledge and ‘muscle memory’, from self-paced practice on mobile devices to fully immersive training with Virtual Reality (VR).

VPT offers a high-fidelity interactive cockpit, enabling pilots to act intuitively on switches, levers, and aircraft panels with haptic feedback across all phase-of-flight Airbus SOPs (Standard Operating Procedures) and abnormal procedures, streamlining pilot preparation before stepping into the simulator.

Guided by a virtual instructor across adaptable guidance levels, trainees master procedure flows and conduct realistic aircraft walkarounds, complete with defect inspections. Multi-device compatibility allows seamless transitions between VR and tablet versions, ideal for VR session preparation or post-session review.

“By bringing MATe Suite, VPT and Flight eLearning under Skywise, we are unifying our Digital Flight Training Solutions on a modern, flexible platform, enhancing end-user access management and ensuring the gold-standard Airbus OEM training content that pilots rely on. This integration allows us to deliver high-fidelity, interactive cockpit learning earlier and more frequently in a pilot’s training footprint,” said Marc Lemeilleur, CEO of Skywise.