Simulator training

See the minute before.

ThinkSYNC reads a student's cognitive workload in the simulator, from the aviation headset they already wear.

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01The problem

Your worst students never fail a checkride.

They stop showing up. The real attrition happens long before anyone schedules a practical test, in the grinding middle phase where the excitement fades into a chore. It does not appear in a single number a school currently tracks. By the time a student goes quiet, the slot and the revenue are already gone.

The invisible dropout does not show up in checkride statistics.

An instructor sees the busted altitude. They do not see the moment a minute earlier when the student ran out of room in their head, went quiet, and started guessing. That is where the lesson was actually lost, and nobody in the room can see it happen.

02How it works

Three things, and none of them change your syllabus.

Close view of the ThinkSYNC dry comb electrodes mounted on the headset frame.
STEP 01

It clips to the headset they already wear.

Dry comb electrodes reach the scalp through hair. No gel, no prep, no second thing to put on. It stays mounted between lessons.

A student flying a simulator session in a darkened room, wearing the ThinkSYNC headset.
STEP 02

It records the whole sim session.

A cognitive load index is logged continuously and timestamped, start to shutdown, and every spike past the threshold is saved as its own incident.

The ThinkSYNC full session report: a cognitive load timeline with two clear spikes, and the session totals beneath it.
STEP 03

It hands the instructor a timeline.

The debrief opens on the moment the student saturated, not the moment the sim showed it.

03Try it

The head goes first.

Two traces from the same moment. The top one is what the student's head is doing. The bottom one is what the simulator is doing. Load the pilot and watch which one moves first.

SESSION 00:01:10  ·  SYNTHETIC DEMONSTRATION BASELINE NORMAL
EEG COGNITIVE LOAD INDEX
SATURATION
FLIGHT PATH DEVIATION
DEVIATION
Press and hold. Watch which line moves first.
PEAK LOAD INDEX
0.00
LEAD TIME
0.0s
INCIDENTS SAVED
0

That gap is the whole product.

04What arrives

It arrives as a case.

A ThinkSYNC headset assembly, the electrode harness, and the recorder, foam-cut into a sealed hard case. It lives on a shelf in the sim room and comes out when the next student sits down.

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The sealed ThinkSYNC Aviation Technologies hard case, closed.
The case open, showing the aviation headset and the electrode harness in cut foam.
The ThinkSYNC headset assembly: recorder, mount, and dry comb electrodes on an aviation headset.
05The evidence

This is not a new idea. It is a newly practical one.

Measuring pilot cognitive workload from EEG has been settled work in research aviation for years. What has not existed is a version that survives a real sim room and mounts to equipment a flight school already owns.

01 EEG microstate analysis tracks trainee cognitive control through simulator-based training. Scientific Reports, 2024
02 Physiological workload measures identify trainees who are cognitively saturated and at higher risk of poor performance as new demands arrive. Wright State, ISAP
03 Machine learning on EEG discriminates pilot cognitive workload in flight. Scientific Reports, 2023
06Straight answers

The questions chief instructors actually ask.

Is this FAA approved?
The question does not apply. ThinkSYNC is simulator equipment. It never goes in an aircraft, never connects to anything that flies, and has no authority over anything. It sits on a headset in your sim room and records.
Does it work in the airplane?
Not today. ThinkSYNC is built for the simulator, and that is deliberate. The sim is where the hard lessons already happen on the ground, where the conditions are repeatable, and where nothing has to be certified before a school can use it.
Do we have to change our syllabus?
No. It observes a sim lesson you are already running. Nothing in the curriculum changes, so there is nothing to file.
Do my instructors have to learn new software?
The debrief opens as a timeline with the saturation points already marked. If an instructor can read a chart, they can read it.
Does it work through hair?
Yes. The electrodes are dry combs that reach the scalp through hair. No gel, no shaving, no cleanup.
How long does setup take per student?
Seconds. The assembly stays on the headset, so a student puts on the headset the way they always do.
What does it cost?
Pilot programs are priced per school and per fleet size. Tell us your operation and we will give you a real number.
07Pilot program

Run it at your school.

We are placing units with a small number of flight schools. Tell us about your operation and we will tell you honestly whether you are a fit.

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