Training levels

Sherry Carbary, Boeing's vice president for training and flight services, demonstrates the levels of training for 787 customers. Besides the full simulator, the company also provides desktop-based instructional lessons for pilots and training for cabin safety and maintenance personnel.

All training is electronic, and students are issued a tablet PC instead of paper manuals. Boeing says a pilot can be fully trained on a 787 in 20 days if they've never flown a Boeing aircraft before. If the pilot is certified to fly the Boeing 777, training takes just five days.