VR Aircraft Maintenance Training
for FlyOn Aero (EASA IT.147.0016)

FlyOn Aero is an EASA-certified aircraft maintenance training organisation (Part-147) — one of the most demanding regulatory frameworks in aviation. Training aircraft maintenance technicians to the standard required by EASA and DGCA requires hands-on procedural competency across a range of complex, safety-critical maintenance tasks.

The challenge: aircraft are expensive assets with tight operational schedules and limited availability for training purposes. Allowing trainees to practice on live aircraft introduces real risk of costly damage — and any maintenance error that compromises airworthiness carries severe regulatory consequences. Yet without hands-on procedural practice, technicians cannot develop the procedural memory and decision-making skills required to work safely on real aircraft.

FlyOn Aero needed a solution that could deliver high-fidelity, procedure-level hands-on training at scale — without occupying live aircraft, without risk of damage, and with measurable, standardised competency outcomes that could be consistently reproduced across every technician cohort.

EDIIIE built a full-scale, photorealistic VR hangar environment complete with an accurately modelled aircraft, all relevant ground support equipment, tooling, and maintenance access panels — replicating the actual environment FlyOn Aero technicians work in. The simulation was designed with 6DoF VR controllers enabling true hand-based interaction: technicians could physically grab tools, open inspection panels, and execute multi-step maintenance procedures using the same hand movements as live maintenance work.

The solution was built around a dual-mode training design — a structured Learn Mode for procedure acquisition and a self-directed Practice Mode for independent execution and competency scoring — with all assessment criteria aligned directly to DGCA and EASA maintenance standards.

The VR hangar simulator fundamentally changed how FlyOn Aero approaches initial technician training. By moving the procedural learning phase entirely into VR, technicians arrived at their first live-aircraft tasks with established procedural memory — able to execute maintenance tasks with significantly greater speed and accuracy than previous cohorts trained exclusively on classroom instruction and limited live exposure.

Critically, the zero-damage record achieved under VR training demonstrates that the simulation accurately replicates the cognitive and motor demands of live maintenance work — and that technicians trained this way approach live aircraft with the respect, precision, and procedural discipline that EASA certification demands.