Understanding Training Insights
Summary
Training insights give you an AI-generated view of your progress toward certification. Based on your debrief logs and instructor feedback, insights show an overview summary, your recent flight activity, and proficiency scores for each Area of Operation in your ACS standard. Insights update after each training session and help you and your instructor identify strengths and areas that need more work.
Who this is for
- Students reviewing their own training progress and proficiency trends
- Instructors reviewing a student's insights to guide training decisions
Before you begin
- You must have an ACS Standard selected in your User Profile (e.g., Private Pilot—Airplane, Commercial Pilot—Airplane)
- At least one debrief log with instructor task feedback must exist for insights to generate
- Training Insights is a premium feature—if you're on the free tier, you'll see a star icon indicating it requires a subscription or a paid seat in your school's organization
Steps
1. Open Training Insights
As a student: From the Log tab, tap the toolbar menu (three-dot icon) and select Training Insights.
As an instructor viewing a student: From the Instruct tab, select the student, tap the toolbar menu (three-dot icon), and select Training Insights.
The first time you open Training Insights, a brief walkthrough explains what the feature shows and how it works.
2. Review the Overview Summary
The Overview Summary section at the top shows an AI-generated narrative describing your overall training progress. This is a natural-language assessment written by FlightSense's AI (Amelia) that synthesizes your debrief history and task scores into a readable summary.
If the summary is long, it truncates with a See More button—tap to expand the full text.
3. Review Log Activity
The Log Activity section shows three metrics:
| Metric | What it shows |
|---|---|
| Total Logs Toward Standard | Total number of debrief logs that count toward your selected ACS standard |
| Last 7 Days | Number of logs recorded in the past week |
| Last 30 Days | Number of logs recorded in the past month |
4. Review ACS Proficiency
The ACS Proficiency section is the core of training insights. Each Area of Operation from your ACS standard appears as its own card, sorted by Roman numeral (I, II, III, and so on).
Each card shows:
- Area of Operation name—e.g., "I. Preflight Preparation"
- Score percentage—Your proficiency score from 0% to 100%
- Progress bar—A visual indicator color-coded by score:
| Score Range | Color | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 0–33% | Red | Below proficiency |
| 34–66% | Orange/Yellow | Developing |
| 67–100% | Green | Proficient |
- Summary note—A brief text description of your performance in that area, drawn from instructor feedback
5. Check the last updated date
At the bottom of the view, the Last Updated timestamp shows when insights were most recently recalculated. Insights update after scored training sessions, so the date tells you whether the data reflects your latest flights.
What happens next
Training insights are a living view—they evolve as you accumulate more debrief logs and instructor feedback. The AI summary and proficiency scores recalculate after each training session where your instructor provides task scores and feedback.
Use insights to:
- Identify which Areas of Operation are strongest and which need more attention
- Have informed conversations with your instructor about training priorities
- Track whether your proficiency is improving over time by checking scores after each session
Common issues
| Problem | Cause | Solution |
|---|---|---|
| "No ACS Standard Selected" with a button to go to User Profile | Your profile doesn't have an ACS standard set | Tap the button and select the standard that matches your training. Insights are scoped to a specific ACS standard. |
| "No Training Insights Available" | Not enough debrief data for the AI to generate insights | Continue training and ensure your instructor is logging task feedback and scores during debriefs. Insights require debrief logs with instructor input to generate. |
| All Areas of Operation show "Not Started" | You have some log data but no task scores for specific Areas of Operation | Proficiency scores are built from ACS task feedback your instructor enters per flight. Ask your instructor to include task scores during debriefs. |
| Insights seem outdated | The "Last Updated" timestamp is old | Insights recalculate after scored sessions. If you've had recent flights but insights haven't updated, the backend may not have received task scores for those flights. |
| Star icon next to Training Insights in the menu | Premium feature on free tier | If you're a free-tier user, Training Insights requires a subscription. If your school has added you as a paid seat member, you should have access—check with your admin. |
How this works
What feeds into insights
Training insights are generated server-side from two main data sources: your debrief logs (which provide the raw training activity data) and your instructor's ACS task feedback and scores (which provide per-Area-of-Operation proficiency data). The AI uses this combined data to generate the narrative overview summary and calculate proficiency percentages per Area of Operation.
Lesson grades, time and activity logs, and check results are related but separate data—they feed into course progress rather than training insights. Insights are specifically driven by task-level feedback tied to ACS standards.
How proficiency scores work
Each Area of Operation proficiency score is an average of the task scores your instructor has entered for tasks within that area. The score is expressed as a percentage from 0% to 100%. Areas with no task scores show as "Not Started" rather than 0%—there's a difference between having no data and having low scores.
Per-standard scoping
Insights are scoped to your selected ACS standard. If you're training for a Private Pilot certificate, your insights show the Areas of Operation from the Private Pilot ACS. If you change your ACS standard in your profile (for example, when beginning instrument training), the insights view will reflect the new standard—and will likely show mostly "Not Started" areas until you build up enough scored sessions under that standard.