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Virtual Airplane Procedures Trainer

Boeing-validated device practice and instructor authoring to reduce simulator familiarization time and improve procedural fluency

What is Virtual Airplane Procedures Trainer?

Virtual Airplane Procedures Trainer (VA-PT) is the first modular trainer in the Boeing Virtual Airplane suite, an immersive, accessible, and customizable set of digital tools that help flight training teams make pilot learning more effective, efficient, and engaging.

This module provides high-fidelity procedural practice so flight crews can build muscle memory anywhere — on an iPad, laptop, or desktop computer — and arrive at the simulator ready for higher-value assessment and scenario work.

Why choose Virtual Airplane Procedures Trainer

 
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    Engaging, realistic learning

    Our 3D flight deck simulations, integrated systems and navigation data, and intuitive lesson flow keep students immersed and focused. Whether it’s an interactive FMS/FMC experience or a guided procedure lesson, pilots stay engaged.

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    Train anywhere, anytime

    Cross-platform clients for iPad or Windows PC's (tablet, laptop, desktop) — with offline download, resume, and scheduled sync capabilities — let pilots fit short-form learning sessions or longer interactive lessons into busy rosters, even in low-bandwidth environments.

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    Easy authoring and rapid deployment

    A centralized authoring workspace with templates and packaged lesson deployment empowers customers to create, validate, and push consistent operator-aligned lessons enterprise-wide with minimal turnaround.

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    Enterprise-scale security and compliance

    With Microsoft integration, you can quickly and easily roll out training content across your entire organization — helping you meet regulatory requirements while tracking progress and ensuring consistent delivery every time.

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    Cost efficient

    Move validated procedural practice to personal or portable devices to reduce full-flight familiarization time, optimize simulator scheduling, and lower total training costs.

Who is Virtual Airplane for?

Flight training directors and program leaders (737 MAX focus)

Commercial airline training organizations seeking improved ROI and enhanced student outcomes

Quality assurance and compliance officers

Instructional systems designers and instructors

Pilots and student pilots

Including type rating candidates, recurrent trainees, and refresher learners who need flexible, device-based procedural practice

Availability by aircraft

Virtual Airplane Procedures Trainer includes OEM-developed standard operating procedures templates you can use turnkey or customize to match your airline’s procedures if you have the Authoring Tool. Templates are regularly expanded and rolled out to all customers.

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    737 MAX

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    737NG

    Coming soon

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    777X

    Coming soon

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    787

    Coming soon

Availability by procedure

List of Boeing Virtual Airplane procedures

Name of Procedure

737 Max Status

Electrical Power Up - Ground Power

Now available

Preliminary Preflight

Now available

Preflight - First Officer

Now available

Preflight - Captain

Now available

CDU Preflight

Now available

Before Start

Now available

Engine Start

Now available

Before Taxi

Now available

Before Takeoff

Now available

After Landing

Now available

Shutdown

Now available

Secure

Now available

Flight Management System (FMS) Freeplay*

Now available

Exterior Inspection

Now available

In-Flight Procedures (Takeoff time and cruises)

Now available

In-Flight Procedures (landing, ILS +RNAV)

Coming soon

In-Flight Procedures (Descend approach)

Coming soon

Non-Normal Procedures

Coming soon

Author Ground Procedures

Coming soon

Author CDU/FMS

Coming soon

Author Exterior Inspection

Coming soon

Author In-Flight

Coming soon

Author Non-Normals

Coming soon

* This feature allows pilots to explore and use the FMS without following a scripted lesson, providing an open environment to practice and familiarize themselves with the system at their own pace.

Availability by region

Virtual Airplane Procedures Trainer is offered globally. Solution deployment will be tailored to your region to ensure reliable performance and compliance.

Boeing is actively onboarding regional servers worldwide. As servers come online in your region, additional features will be made available.

Virtual Airplane Procedures Trainer features

As the first practice module released in 2026 for Virtual Airplane, Procedures Trainer (VA-PT) delivers Boeing-validated procedure lessons via online streaming and a native offline app. It offers interactive Flight Management System (FMS) freeplay, and an instructor authoring workspace so operators can create, customize, and push consistent lessons, helping pilots shorten simulator familiarization and maintain readiness between checks.


Student Experience


Short, high-fidelity flight deck lessons (online and offline), focused practice exercises and full scenarios, real-world airports, and simple session.

Authoring Tool


Create and manage customized lessons with centralized version control and simple usage data to deploy validated content across the program.

Together, these views form a single training system: The Student Experience delivers practice and retention, while the instructor Authoring Tool allows you to create, validate, and distribute lessons to ensure consistency and operational alignment.


Virtual Airplane Procedures Trainer: Student Experience

Busy rosters and limited simulator access shouldn’t hold back proficiency. Virtual Airplane Procedures Trainer gives pilots short, focused lessons that directly translate to simulator and line performance, enabling pilots to conveniently fit high-quality flight deck practice into their busy schedules.

Note that certain features of the Student Experience will be limited to server regions — see map above for details.

Key benefits

Maximize value

Crews arrive for simulator sessions ready to focus on assessments and scenarios.

Close gaps faster

Prescribe the exact lessons needed to augment pilot knowledge and performance.

Flexible learning

Lessons can begin from multiple phases of flight (preflight, climb, takeoff, etc.) to provide bespoke student experiences.

Easy rollout

Works on iPad, Windows, and Mac across your organization.

Intuitive design

A user-friendly, mobile-first interface that enhances engagement and caters to pilots’ learning preferences.


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Virtual Airplane Procedures Trainer: Authoring Tool

Coming soon is a secure, centralized workspace for instructors, instructional systems designers, and training managers to author validated lessons, deploy updates, and measure crew readiness across your program.

This tool will be limited to the server regions identified in the map above.

Key benefits

Operational relevance

Align lessons to Boeing procedures and Jeppesen NavData® for high fidelity.

Train pilots using your lesson plans

Keep content tightly aligned with your company’s SOPs and Boeing’s Flight Crew Operations Manual.

Rapidly deploy procedural changes

Turn updates into live lessons immediately.

Customizable flight plans

Create unique scenarios that are specific to your operations.

Standardize delivery

Centralized version control to ensure your crew trains from the same approved content.


Frequently asked questions about Virtual Airplane Procedures Trainer

How can Boeing’s Virtual Airplane Procedures Trainer support my training organization?

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Virtual Airplane Procedures Trainer delivers short, high-fidelity, device-based lessons and interactive FMS freeplay so pilots can rehearse validated flight deck procedures anytime, online or offline.

By focusing on hands-on procedural practice, VA-PT helps training teams develop procedural competence, build proficiency between checks, shorten simulator familiarization, and improve transfer to Flight Training Device/Full Flight Simulator and line operations.

Operators gain a centralized authoring workspace to create, validate, and distribute consistent lesson content across their programs, plus basic analytics to track student usage and completion. Together, these capabilities allow you to scale consistent, validated procedural practice across devices and locations while keeping flight training aligned to operational procedures.

When will a server be added to my region?

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Boeing is actively expanding regional hosting to provide full Virtual Airplane capabilities worldwide. Timelines vary by market as we validate performance and compliance requirements.

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