The Human Layer · The Glass Lab

The Competency Frontier

As the airspace becomes autonomous, the human's role shifts from flying to supervising — and a competency gap opens that training has to close.

Autonomy
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Competency gap
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Time to proficiency
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Workforce yield
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Autonomy level

Supervised

Training model

Competency demand

at this autonomy level — supervisory skills rise, manual skills fall
Supervisory demand rises · manual falls
Training supply closes the gap · gap = unmet competency
Drag the autonomy slider · switch the training model · watch the gap