Any full employee of your company can be assigned to a training course when you choose the ‘training’ option from their profile. This will summon the above screen and can be used for two types of training.

The top section allows you to train them on operations of a new aircraft class, which always takes 2 days unless you have the better instructors skill. The financial cost for this training varies depending on the class but you will be able to see this when choosing a class from the ‘aircraft class’ drop down box. Simply select the new type of aircraft to train them for, which will enable the ‘Start Class training’ button. After clicking this button, they will enter their training phase which cannot be interrupted and your company will be charged the indicated fee.

The lower section allows you to send the employee for a 1 day training to improve both of their core skills. The actual time may be reduced slightly depending on your ‘Better Instructors’ skill from the skill tree and the fee is a fixed amount, normally 1300 Credits.

How much their new skills will have increased by is a factor of how good their current skills are and your ‘Trainings Facilities’ skill in the skill tree. As an example of the base rates of training however:

An employee with a skill level of 0 out of 5 will gain approximately 1 full skill level in a single training session.

An employee with a skill level of 4.5 out of 5 will only gain approximately 0.15 of a skill level in a single training session.
Employees do not gain skills during their regular work, so this is the only method by which to increase their overall skill.

Some people may wish to hire employees that are already highly skilled, however such employees tend to charge appropriately to their advanced experience and skill. It can be more cost-effective in the long term to hire inexperienced and low skilled employees and train them up yourself.