Training & Licensing

Training & Licensing

ICAO Annex 1 details the standards and recommended practices (SARPs) for personnel licensing. Although not defined in the Annex, a licence per definition is a permit from an authority to own or use something, do a particular thing, or carry on a trade. Licensing is a system of standards, processes and procedures to ensure that personnel undertaking safety related tasks in civil aviation (pilots, air traffic controllers, aircraft maintenance engineers, etc.) are competent to perform their tasks to the prescribed standards.

Annex 1 also sets out the applicable ATCO standards for the rating, validation, training, aviation English and procedures for acquiring a licence, keeping the licence valid, renewal of the licence and even provisions for withdrawal of ATC licence under certain conditions. Where all these conditions are met, the ATCO is licensed to perform an air traffic control service. Where they are not, the ATCO cannot perform an air traffic control service.

Provisions related to ATCO training are found in both Annex 1, Chapter 4 and PANS-TRG, Part IV. In 2016, ICAO introduced the Competency-Based Training and Assessment (CBTA) approach, further detailed in Doc 10056 – Manual on Air Traffic Controller Competency-based Training and Assessment.

 

LICENSING AND TRAINING: ARE THEY SO DIFFERENT?

While the licensing domain related more specifically to the ATCO licence and its associated privileges and responsibilities, the training domain refers to training and assessment matters. Because the latter normally leads to the former, and because to maintain a licence, a certain amount of recurrent training is required, both domains are actually closely linked. In fact, they usually co-exist and may occur concurrently.

 

What falls under Licensing and Training?

The licensing and training domain is vast and encompasses a large number of sub-topics, such as:

  • LICENSING:
    • Recency and competency;
    • Proficiency;
    • Loss of Licence (LoL);
    • Recruitment and selection of ATCOs;
    • Licensing issues;
    • Retirement policies;
    • Ratings and endorsements.

 

  • TRAINING:
    • Human Factors related to training and assessing;
    • Just Culture, trust and mutual respect;
    • Safety Management Systems (SMS);
    • Relation between ATC Schools and operational environment;
    • Failure in ATC training;
    • Emergency training;
    • E-Learning;
    • On-the-Job Training (OJT);
    • On-the-Job Instructor (OJTI) Training;
    • Competence assessment;
    • Refresher training;
    • English language training;
    • Examination, validation and consolidation;
    • Aptitudes testing;
    • Performance measurement in ATC.

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  1. AAS 1.13 DETERMINING OPERATIONS READINESS OF NEW ATM SYSTEMS
  2. AAS 1.23 SYSTEM-BASED AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL LICENCE CONCEPT
  3. ACAS (TCAS Training for ATCOs)
  4. ADME 2.14 REMOTE AND VIRTUAL TOWER
  5. Advanced Training, Assessment, Rating and Checking of ATCOs
  6. Aerodrome Radar Control Rating
  7. Air Traffic Control Instructor Rating
  8. Amendment to ICAO Annex 1 – ATCO Licences
  9. ANSP Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
  10. Aptitude Testing for Air Traffic Controllers; Development of Aptitude Tests for ATCOs
  11. Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in ATC
  12. ATCO Performance
  13. ATS 3.40 MOVING TO A NEW FACILITY
  14. ATS 3.41 STATE AIRCRAFT AND DUE REGARD OPERATIONS
  15. Competence Assessment
  16. Consolidation After Validation
  17. Continuation Training
  18. Conversion of Military ATCO Licences
  19. Draft Convention for the Profession of Air Traffic Controllers
  20. E-learning as a Training Tool
  21. Educational Issues on Distraction (Guidance Material)
  22. English Language Proficiency Requirements
  23. Examination and Validation Procedures
  24. Forcing Controllers to Work at a Specific Foreign Location
  25. Global Harmonisation of Air Traffic Control Training
  26. Guidelines for the Qualification and Training of AFIS Personnel – (Review of ICAO Circular 211 AN/128)
  27. Human Factors Integration in New ATM Systems
  28. IFATCA Training Manual
  29. Interpersonal Relation Skills of Assessors
  30. Language Training for ATCOs
  31. Licensing of Air Traffic Controllers
  32. Licensing of ATCOs
  33. LM 7.1.4 ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE CONTROLLER-IN-CHARGE (CIC) IN REGARD TO LIABILITY AND OPERATIONAL RESPONSIBILITY
  34. Loss of Licence
  35. Maintenance of Recency and Competency
  36. Military to Civilian Licence Conversion
  37. Military to Civilian Licence Conversion
  38. Monitoring Developments in the FAA
  39. Monitoring the Evolution within PRICESG and English for ATCOs
  40. Normal Operations Safety Survey – NOSS
  41. On the Job Training (OJT) & Simulator Duty
  42. Operating two Different Air Traffic Control Ratings During the Same Operational Shift
  43. Performance-based Endorsements
  44. Policy Review of Simultaneous ATC Training on Adjacent Positions
  45. Policy Review on Validity of Controller Licence
  46. Position Paper on Remotely Operated Towers
  47. Provision of ATS over Foreign Territories
  48. Rating and Endorsement Policy
  49. Rating for Automatic Dependent Surveillance Control
  50. Rating for ROT
  51. Rating of ATFM Staff
  52. Relationship Between the ATC Trainee and the Instructor
  53. Report on Committee C
  54. Review of IFATCA Policy Regarding ATCO Recruitment & Selection
  55. Review of ILO Conclusions
  56. Review of MED (Medical Matters) – Professional Policy of the TPM
  57. Review of Part IV – Professional Policy of the TPM
  58. Review of Professional and Legal IFATCA Policy Relating to Unlawful Interference with Particular Regard to Controllers Training
  59. Review of the IFATCA Initial Training Manual for Air Traffic Control
  60. Review of the IFATCA Training (TRNG) Policy
  61. Review of TRNG (ATC Training) – Professional Policy of the TPM
  62. Review of WC (Working Conditions) – Professional Policy of the TPM
  63. Review Policy on Training
  64. Review Policy on Use of Unqualified Personnel
  65. Roles and Responsibilities of the Controller-In-Charge (CIC) in Regard to Liability and Operational Responsibility
  66. RPAS Licensing
  67. Selection of Assessors
  68. Staffing of ATFM Units – the Need for Licensed ATCOs to Man These Positions
  69. Study of Automation – Controller Training
  70. Study of ICAO Training Manual Part D-2 “Air Traffic Controller”
  71. Study of Selection Procedures for Air Traffic Controllers
  72. Study on the Correlation Between Compensation for Loss of Licence, Early Retirement Programme, Medical Checks, Proficiency Checks and Conditions of Employment
  73. Study Remote Towers Concept
  74. Study Remote/Virtual TWR from the Professional, Procedural and HF View
  75. System-Based Air Traffic Controller Licence Concept
  76. Team Resource Management
  77. Team Resource Management
  78. Terms of Reference – SC4 Human and Environmental Factors in ATC
  79. The Operational Role of the OJTI
  80. The Proficiency Checking of Air Traffic Controllers
  81. The Provision of Surveillance Approach and Aerodrome Control Services as Combined Function
  82. The Provision of Training for the OJT Coach
  83. Training for On-the-Job-Training-Instructors (OJTI)
  84. TRNG 9.1.2 SELECTION
  85. TRNG 9.1.3 TEAM RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
  86. TRNG 9.2.01 GENERAL CURRICULUM FOR ATC TRAINING
  87. TRNG 9.2.02 GRADUATION
  88. TRNG 9.2.03 LINK BETWEEN ATO AND OPERATIONAL UNITS
  89. TRNG 9.2.04 REASONS FOR FAILURE IN ATC TRAINING
  90. TRNG 9.2.05 AUTOMATION CONTROLLER TRAINING
  91. TRNG 9.2.06 AIRBORNE COLLISION AVOIDANCE SYSTEM (ACAS) TRAINING
  92. TRNG 9.2.07 BASIC DOCUMENTATION FOR USE BY TRAINING OFFICERS / INSTRUCTORS
  93. TRNG 9.2.08 EMERGENCY TRAINING
  94. TRNG 9.2.09 E-LEARNING
  95. TRNG 9.3.1 ON-THE-JOB-TRAINING (OJT)
  96. TRNG 9.4.1 A SYSTEM COMBINING ASSESSMENTS WITH EXAMINATIONS
  97. TRNG 9.4.2 USE OF UNQUALIFIED PERSONNEL
  98. TRNG 9.4.3 AIR TRAFFIC FLOW MANAGEMENT (ATFM)
  99. TRNG 9.4.4 COMPETENCE ASSESSMENT
  100. TRNG 9.4.6 TRAINING AND LICENSING FOR DEDICATED FLIGHT INFORMATION SERVICE
  101. TRNG 9.5.1 REFRESHER COURSES
  102. TRNG 9.5.2 ENGLISH LANGUAGE TRAINING
  103. TRNG 9.5.3 SUPERVISORY AND MANAGEMENT COURSES
  104. TRNG 9.5.4 FLIGHT EXPERIENCE FOR AIR TRAFFIC CONTROLLERS
  105. TRNG 9.6.1 RECOGNITION OF PRIOR LEARNING FOR MILITARY AIR TRAFFIC CONTROLLERS
  106. Update on English Language Proficiency
  107. Use of Unqualified Personnel
  108. Use of Unqualified Personnel – Legal Aspects
  109. Virtual Centres – Review ATS 3.15 Functional Blocks of Airspace
  110. WC 10.1.3 DISPUTES
  111. WC 10.2.2 MANAGEMENT OF ATS PROVIDERS
  112. WC 10.2.7 WORKING WITH UNSERVICEABLE OR INADEQUATE EQUIPMENT
  113. WC 10.3.4 RECENCY AND COMPETENCY
  114. WC 10.6.1 LOSS OF LICENCE
  115. WC 10.7.8 USE OF MULTIPLE ATCO RATINGS
  116. Written ELP

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October 27, 2019   1928   superman    WIKI  

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