FPD.OR.115 Technical and operational competence and capability

TRAINING The training should provide the flight procedure designers with:

(a)knowledge of technical rules for the design and the establishment of instrument flight procedures;

(b)knowledge of design criteria;

(c)knowledge of the data catalogue, including the applicable DQRs; and

(d)competence in designing flight procedures with the selected tools in accordance with the design criteria.

TRAINING In addition to the PANS-OPS design training, the training should consider:

(a)Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2017/373 laying down common requirements for service providers and the oversight in air traffic management/air navigation services and other air traffic management network functions;

(b)Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 923/2012 laying down the common rules of the air and operational provisions regarding services and procedures in air navigation;

(c)design criteria defined in FPD.TR.100;

(d)ICAO Annex 4 ‘Aeronautical Charts’;

(e)ICAO Doc 9613 ‘Performance-based Navigation (PBN) Manual;

(f)ICAO Doc 9906 ‘Quality Assurance Manual for Flight Procedure Design’; and

(g)tools used in the design, which may be acquired as part of the on-the-job training.

TRAINING The FPD provider’s personnel involved in the flight procedure charting and/or coding should have successfully completed a training course that provides a basic level of competency in charting and/or coding.

TRAINING ICAO Doc 9906 Volume 2 ‘Flight Procedure Designer Training’ provides guidance for the establishment of flight procedure designer training and possible content.

FLIGHT PROCEDURE DESIGNER EXPERIENCE In order for flight procedure designers to show that they are suitably experienced to successfully apply the theoretical knowledge, they should be prove that they have either:

(a)worked in flight procedure design work over a period of time specified by the competent authority; or

(b)undergone sufficient on-the-job training. In doing so, the procedure designer should have undergone a minimum of time on-the-job PANS-OPS design training until demonstrating adequate competency in the practical application of design criteria.

CONTINUATION TRAINING Continuation training aims at addressing changes in the applicable design criteria and regulations. ICAO Doc 9906 Volume 2 ‘Flight Procedure Designer Training’ provides guidance for the establishment of flight procedure designer training.

COMPETENT PILOT ICAO Doc 9906 Volume 6 ‘Flight Validation Pilot Training and Evaluation’ provides guidance for the establishment of flight procedure validation pilot training