Essential Requirements for Licensing

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Essential Requirements for Licensing

• Fergus Woods
• JAA Licensing Director

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20th JAA / FAA Annual Conference Reykjavik -
Iceland
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Essential Requirements for Licensing

• Contents
• Workplan
• Membership
• Working Method
• Overview Draft Text

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Essential Requirements for Licensing

• Workplan
• Kick-off meeting, 24 April 2002
• 4 meetings to draft the text
• (1) 2 July 2002, CJAA The Netherlands
• (2) 26 September 2002, Frankfurt Germany
• (3) 25 and 26 November 2002, Paris France
• (4) 14 January 2003, CJAA The Netherlands
• Licensing / Operations co-ordination meeting.
• Work completed at the end of January 2003.

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Essential Requirements for Licensing

• Membership
• Focal Point Fergus Woods
• EC co-ordinator Claude Probst
• Licensing Specialists
• Martin Banz (FOCA Switzerland)
• Jean-François Buffat (DGAC-France)
• Luis Cardoso Ribeiro (CJAA)
• Ron Elder (CAA UK)
• Dan Eriksen (CAA DK)
• Cesáreo Gómez Reboredo (ECA)
• Didier Guy (EAAPS)
• Otto Krüger (LBA D)
• Gilles Laurent (AEA)
• Glynn Morgan Davies (CAA UK)
• Rudy Schuegraf (Europe Airsports)
• CJAA Legal Co-ordinator Frank Manuhutu

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Essential Requirements for Licensing

• Working Method
• Basis is EASA Regulation
• Regulation (EC) No 1592/2002
• Licensing ERs to be annexed to this Regulation
• Hazard / Risk / Mitigation Approach
• To constitute the bridge between the EASA
  Regulation and the Implementing Rules for
  Licensing.

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Essential Requirements for Licensing

• Hazard Risk Mitigation Approach

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Hazards Risk Mitigation - 1
Hazard
Risk
Mitigation
Age
Too young to absorb knowledge / skill training
(immature)
Set minimum age limit

• Increased risk
• of incapacitation
• Deterioration motor skill and response

Set maximum age limit
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Hazards Risk Mitigation - 2
Hazard
Risk
Mitigation
Medical

• Pilot flying whilst not fit
• Incapacitation, inability due to e.g. hearing,
  vision or mental problems

Medical Assessment
Medical Certification

• Inadequate assessment process

Certification System for Medical
Specialist (training / standards)
Oversight by Authority (AMS)
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Hazards Risk Mitigation - 3
Hazard
Risk
Mitigation
Inadequate theoretical knowledge for the
privileges of the licence and rating

• Application of inadequate theoretical / technical
  knowledge in an operational context
• Misunderstanding of aeronautical information,
  procedures, systems mode of operation etc.
• Inadequate application of Human Factors aspects

Training appropriate for the privileges of the
licence and rating (training needs analyses)
Demonstration of knowledge in accordance with
regulation
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Hazards Risk Mitigation - 4
Hazard
Risk
Mitigation
Inadequate skill for the privileges of the
licence and rating
Skill training appropriate to the privileges

• Inadequate /
• Inappropriate
• handling of
• the aircraft
• Inadequate
• application of
• Human Factors
• aspects

Demonstration of skill in accordance with
regulation

• Maintenance of
• competence through
• Experience
• - Training
• - Checking

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Hazards Risk Mitigation - 5
Hazard
Risk
Mitigation
Inadequate/ Non-standardised Training

• Pilot receives inadequate / inappropriate
  training
• No uniform standards in the pilot population,
  pilot not trained for specific and vital tasks,
  insufficiently trained to cope in stress
  situations

Approval of Organisation
Approval of Instructor
Approval of Examiner
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Essential Requirements for Licensing

• Summary of Hazard Risk Mitigation
• Age
• Young
• Old
• Medical
• Incapacitation
• Assessment process
• Pilot Competence Technical Procedure Human
  Factors
• Theoretical Knowledge
• Practical Skills
• Training
• Training organisation approval
• Instructors
• Examiners

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Essential Requirements for Licensing

• Overview draft text
• Amendments to Article 4 EASA Regulation
• Basic principles and applicability
• New Article 5bis EASA Regulation
• Personnel Licensing and Training
• Basis for Essential Requirements
• Task the Commission to develop Implementing Rules
• Distinction between Commercial and non Commercial
  activities

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Essential Requirements for Licensing

• Annex YYY
• Essential Requirements for Personnel Licensing
  and Training
• 1. Training
• General
• Theoretical Knowledge
• Demonstration of theoretical knowledge
• Practical skill
• Demonstration of skill
• Maintenance of knowledge and skill
• Training Course
• Instructors
• Examiners
• 2. Medical
• Medical fitness
• Flexibility Special Circumstances
• Decrease of medical fitness
• Certification of medical specilist
• Aeromedical centres
• 3. Training Organisations

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Thank you for your attention!
Questions ?
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