CIVIL AVIATION: SUBSIDIARY LEGISLATION: CIVIL AVIATION (PERSONNEL LICENSING) (OTHER PERSONNEL) REGULATIONS
(section 89)
(22nd February, 2013)
ARRANGEMENT OF REGULATIONS
REGULATION
PART I
Preliminary
1. Citation
2. Interpretation
PART II
General Requirements for Licences and Ratings
3. Licences
4. Ratings
5. General requirements for licences and ratings
5A. Exercise of privileges of licences and ratings
PART II
Aircraft Maintenance Engineer's Licence and Ratings
6. Aircraft maintenance engineer licence
7. Application for aircraft maintenance engineer licence
8. Knowledge required for aircraft maintenance engineer licence
9. Issue of aircraft maintenance engineer licence
10. Duration and renewal of aircraft maintenance engineer licence
11. Aircraft maintenance engineer licence ratings
12. Knowledge required for aircraft maintenance engineer licence ratings
13. Experience required for aircraft maintenance engineer licence and ratings
14. [Repealed.]
15. Privileges for aircraft maintenance engineer licence
16. Validation of foreign aircraft maintenance engineer licence
17. Conversion of foreign aircraft maintenance engineer licence
18. Recognition of military competency
19. Display of aircraft maintenance engineer licence
PART IV
Inspection Authorisation
20.-23. [Repealed.]
PART V
Aviation Repair Specialist Licence
24. Aviation repair specialist licence
25. Application for aviation repair specialist licence
26. Ratings for aviation repair specialist licence
27. Privileges and limitations for aviation repair specialist licence
28. Display of aviation repair specialist licence
PART VI
Aviation Engineer Instructor Rating and Aviation Engineer Examiner Certificate
29. Aircraft maintenance engineer instructor rating
30. Application for aircraft maintenance engineer instructor rating
31. Experience for aircraft maintenance engineer instructor rating
32. Privileges for aircraft maintenance engineer instructor rating
33. Duration and renewal of aircraft maintenance engineer instructor rating
34. Aircraft maintenance engineer designated examiner certificate
35. Application for aircraft maintenance engineer designated examiner certificate
36. Knowledge required for aircraft maintenance engineer designated examiner certificate
37. Skills test for aircraft maintenance engineer designated examiner certificate
38. Recent experience for aircraft maintenance engineer designated examiner certificate
39. Duration and renewal of aircraft maintenance engineer designated examiner certificate
PART VII
Air Traffic Controller Licence and Air Traffic Controller Ratings
40. Air traffic controller licence
41. Application for air traffic controller licence
42. Knowledge required for air traffic controller licence
43. Experience required for air traffic controller licence
44. Duration of air traffic controller licence
45. Air traffic controller rating
46. Knowledge required for air traffic controller rating
47. Knowledge testing for air traffic controller rating
48. Experience required for air traffic controller rating
49. Skills test for air traffic controller rating
50. Privileges and limitations for air traffic controller rating
51. Duration of air traffic controller rating
PART VIII
Flight Operations Officer Licence, Instructor Rating and Designated Examiner Certificate
52. Flight operations officer licence
53. Application for flight operations officer licence
54. Knowledge required for flight operations officer licence
55. Experience for flight operations officer licence
56. Skills test for flight operations officer licence
57. Privileges for flight operations officer licence
58. Duration and renewal of flight operations officer licence
59. Flight operations officer instructor rating
60. Application for flight operations officer instructor rating
61. Experience required for flight operations officer instructor rating
62. Privileges for flight operations officer instructor rating
63. Duration and renewal of flight operations officer instructor rating
64. Flight operations officer examiner certificate
65. Application for flight operations officer examiner certificate
66. Knowledge required for flight operations officer examiner certificate
67. Skills test for flight operations officer examiner certificate
68. Recent experience for flight operations officer examiner certificate
69. Privileges for flight operations officer examiner certificate
70. Duration and renewal of flight operations officer examiner certificate
PART IX
Aeronautical Station Operator Licence
71. Aeronautical station operator licence
72. Knowledge required for aeronautical station operator licence
73. Experience required for aeronautical station operator licence
74. Skills for aeronautical station operator licence
75. Privileges for aeronautical station operator licence
76. Duration and renewal for aeronautical station operator licence
PART X
Parachute Rigger Licence, Instructor Rating and Designated Examiner Certificate
77. Parachute rigger licence
78. Application for parachute rigger licence
79. Senior parachute rigger licence
80. Master parachute rigger licence
81. Skills for parachute rigger licence
82. Type ratings for parachute rigger licence
83. Additional type ratings for parachute rigger licence
84. Privileges for parachute rigger licence
85. Facilities and equipment for parachute rigger licence
86. Recent experience for parachute rigger licence
87. Records for parachute rigger licence
88. Parachute seal
89. Duration and renewal of parachute rigger licence
90. Display of parachute rigger licence
91. Parachute rigger instructor rating
92. Knowledge required for parachute rigger instructor rating
93. Experience required for parachute rigger instructor rating
94. Privileges for parachute rigger instructor rating
95. Duration and renewal of parachute rigger instructor rating
96. Parachute rigger examiner certificate
97. Eligibility for parachute rigger examiner certificate
98. Knowledge required for parachute rigger examiner certificate
99. Skills test for parachute rigger examiner certificate
100. Recent experience for parachute rigger examiner certificate
101. Privileges for parachute rigger examiner certificate
102. Duration and renewal of parachute rigger examiner certificate
PART XI
Cabin Crew Licence
103. Eligibility requirements
104. Specific requirements
105. Training courses, examinations and checking
106. Initial safety training and examinations
107. Aircraft type specific training and checking
108. Operator's aircraft type training and differences training
109. Operator's refresher training
110. Recurrent training and checking
111. Number and composition of cabin crew
112A. Radio telephony requirement for non-flight crew
112B. Charges
112. Conditions for assignment of cabin crew to duties
PART XIA
Training and Testing Requirements
112C. Record of training and aeronautical experience
112D. Training by Approved Training Organisation
112E. Place and time for knowledge and skills tests
112F. Prerequisite and passing grades
112G. Retesting after failure
112H. Reliance on training and testing of another State
112I. Requirements for instructor training
112J. Exemption of instructors, etc.
112K. Designated examiner's certificate
PART XII
Miscellaneous Provisions
113. Penalties
114. Transitional provisions
115. Savings
SCHEDULE
S.I. 8, 2013,
S.I. 73, 2022.
PART I
Preliminary (regs 1-2)
These Regulations may be cited as the Civil Aviation (Personnel Licensing)(Other Personnel) Regulations.
In these Regulations unless the context otherwise requires—
"aeronautical experience" means pilot time obtained in an aircraft or approved flight simulation training device for meeting the training and flight time requirements of these Regulations;
"airframe" means the fuselage, booms, nacelles, cowlings, fairings, airfoil surfaces including rotors, but excludes propellers and rotating airfoils of a powerplant, and landing gear of an aircraft and their accessories and controls;
"appliance" means an instrument, mechanism, equipment, part, apparatus, appurtenance or accessory, including communications equipment, that is—
(a) used or intended to be used in operating or controlling an aircraft in flight; or
(b) installed in or attached to the aircraft and is not part of an airframe, powerplant or propeller;
"approved maintenance organisation" means an organisation approved by the Authority to perform specific aircraft maintenance activities including the inspection, overhaul, maintenance, repair or modification and release to service of aircraft or aircraft component;
"approved training" means training conducted under curricula and supervision approved by the Authority and in the case of a flight crew member means training conducted by an Approved Training Organisation;
"Approved Training Organisation" means an organisation as defined in the Civil Aviation (Approved Training Organisations) Regulations;
"assessment" means an evaluation of the practical skills leading to the issue of the licence, rating or endorsement, and their revalidation or renewal, including behaviour and the practical application of knowledge and understanding being demonstrated by the person being assessed;
"authorised instructor" means a person who—
(a) holds a valid and current ground or flight instructor rating issued under these Regulations for conducting ground training or flight training; or
(b) is authorised by the Authority to provide ground training, flight training, or other training under these Regulations and the Civil Aviation (Approved Training Organisations) Regulations;
"cabin crew member" means a crew member who performs duties assigned by the operator or the pilot-in-command of the aircraft, in the interest of safety of passengers, but who shall not act as a flight crew member;
"complex aeroplane" means an aeroplane that has retractable landing gear, flaps, and a controllable pitch propeller, or in the case of a seaplane, flaps and a controllable pitch propeller;
"Contracting State" means a State that is a signatory to the Convention on International Civil Aviation (Chicago Convention);
"course" means a programme of instruction to obtain a licence, rating, qualification, authorisation or current experience required under these Regulations;
"examination" means a formalised test evaluating the person's knowledge and understanding;
"examiner" means a person authorised by the Authority to conduct a pilot proficiency test, a practical test for a licence or rating, or a knowledge test under these Regulations;
"glider" means a non-power-driven heavier-than-air aircraft, deriving its lift in flight chiefly from aerodynamic reactions on surfaces, which remain fixed under given conditions of flight;
"heavier-than-air aircraft" means an aircraft deriving its lift in flight chiefly from aerodynamic forces;
"human performance" means human capabilities and limitations which have an impact on the safety and efficiency of aeronautical operations;
"ICAO Annex 1" means Annexure 1 to the Convention on International Civil Aviation;
"instrument approach procedure" means a series of predetermined manoeuvres by reference to flight instruments with specified protection from obstacles from the initial approach fix, or where applicable, from the beginning of a defined arrival route to a point from which a landing can be completed and thereafter; and if a landing is not completed, to a position at which holding or enroute obstacle clearance criteria apply;
"instrument time" means time in which cockpit instruments are used as the sole means for navigation and control;
"instrument training" means training which is received from an authorised instructor under actual or simulated instrument meteorological conditions;
"knowledge test" means a test on the aeronautical knowledge areas required for a licence or rating that can be administered in written form or by a computer;
"licence" means a document issued and endorsed in accordance with these Regulations and entitling its lawful holder to exercise the privileges of the ratings and endorsements contained therein;
"maintenance" means a task required to ensure the continued airworthiness of an aircraft or aircraft component, including any one or combination of overhaul, repair, inspection, replacement, modification and defect rectification;
"night" means the time between 15 minutes after sunset and 15 minutes before sunrise; sunrise and sunset being determined at surface level, and includes any time between sunset and sunrise when an unlighted aircraft or other unlighted prominent object cannot clearly be seen at a distance of 4,572 m;
"powered-lift" means a heavier-than-air aircraft capable of vertical takeoff, vertical landing and low speed flight that depends principally on engine driven lift devices or engine thrust for lift during these flight regimes and on non-rotating airfoil for lift during horizontal flight;
"powerplant" means an engine that is used or intended to be used for propelling aircraft, and it includes turbo superchargers, appurtenances and accessories necessary for its functioning, but does not include propellers;
"practical test" means a competency test on the areas of operations for a licence, certificate, rating or authorisation that is conducted by having the applicant respond to questions and demonstrate manoeuvres in flight, in an approved synthetic flight trainer or in a combination of these;
"pressurised aircraft" means an aircraft fitted with means of controlling out flow of cabin air in order to maintain maximum cabin altitude of not more than 10,000 ft to enhance breathing and comfort of passengers and crew;
"proficiency check" means the process of the check pilot administering each prescribed manoeuvre and procedure to a pilot as necessary until it is performed successfully during the training period;
"propeller" means a device for propelling an aircraft that has blades on a powerplant driven shaft and that, when rotated, produces by its action on the air, a thrust approximately perpendicular to its plane of rotation and it includes control components normally supplied by its manufacturer, but does not include main and auxiliary rotors or rotating airfoils of powerplants;
"rating" means an authorisation entered on or associated with a licence or certificate and forming part of the certificate or licence, stating special conditions, privileges or limitations pertaining to such licence or certificate;
"renewal" means the administrative act taken after a rating, endorsement or certificate has expired that renew the privileges of the rating, endorsement or certificate for a further specified period subject to the fulfilment of specified requirements;
"repair" means the restoration of an aircraft or aircraft component to a serviceable condition in conformity with standards approved by the Authority;
"revalidation" means the administrative act taken within the period of validity of a rating, endorsement or cettificate that allows the holder to continue to exercise the privileges of a rating, endorsement or certificate for a futther specified period subject to the fulfilment of specified requirements;
"specific operating provisions" means a document describing the ratings class or limited in detail and shall contain reference material and process specifications used in performing repair work, along with any limitations applied to an aircraft maintenance organisation;
"synthetic training device" means any type of device by which operational conditions are simulated, including simulators and part-task trainers;
"synthetic training device instructor (STDI) endorsement" means the authorisation entered on and forming part of a licence, indicating the competence of the holder to give instruction on synthetic training devices;
"training course" means theoretical or practical instruction developed within a structured framework and delivered within a defined duration;
"training programme" means a programme that consists of courses, courseware, facilities, flight training equipment, and personnel necessary to accomplish a specific training objective; and includes a core curriculum and a speciality curriculum;
"unit endorsement" means the authorisation entered on and forming part of a licence, indicating the ICAO location indicator and the sector, group of sectors or working positions where the licence holder is competent to work; and
"validation" means a process by which, through the successful completion of a unit endorsement course associated to a rating or a rating endorsement, the holder may start exercising the privileges of that rating or rating endorsement.
PART II
General Requirements for Licences and Ratings (regs 3-5)
The Authority may, where on application, an applicant satisfies the requirements of these Regulations, issue—
(a) a flight operations officer licence;
(b) an aircraft maintenance engineer licence;
(c) an aviation repair specialist licence;
(d) a parachute rigger licence;
(e) an air traffic controller licence;
(f) an aeronautical station operator licence;
(g) a flight radiotelephone operator licence;
(h) a cabin crew licence; and
(i) any other licence as may be considered necessary by the Authority.
(1) The Authority may issue—
(a) in relation to an air traffic controller licence—
(i) an aerodrome control rating,
(ii) an approach control rating,
(iii) an approach radar control rating,
(iv) an area control rating,
(v) an area radar control rating,
(vi) an air traffic control instructor rating,
(vii) an air traffic control examiner rating, and
(viii) an aerodrome flight information services rating;
(b) in relation to an aircraft maintenance engineer licence—
(i) an airframe rating,
(ii) a powerplant rating, and
(iii) an avionics rating;
(c) ratings for an aviation repairman specialist licence; and
(d) ratings for a parachute rigger's licence for seat, back, chest, and lap.
(2) A rating issued under subregulation (1) shall be shown in the licence that it relates to.
5. General requirements for licences and ratings
An applicant shall be eligible for a licence or rating if—
(a) he or she is a fit and proper person;
(b) he or she has sufficient ability in reading, speaking and understanding the English language in order to carry out responsibilities of licence or rating applied for;
(c) he or she meets the eligibility requirements appropriate for the licence or rating applied for; and
(d) the issue of the licence or rating is not contrary to aviation safety.
5A. Exercise of privileges of licences and ratings
A holder of a licence shall not exercise any privilege granted by the licence, authorisation or approval unless he or she maintains competency and meets the requirement for experience under these Regulations.
PART III
Aircraft Maintenance Engineer's Licence and Ratings (regs 6-19)
6. Aircraft maintenance engineer licence
(1) A person shall not act as an aircraft maintenance engineer unless he or she is issued with an aircraft maintenance engineer licence by the Authority in accordance with these Regulations.
(2) A person shall not qualify to act as an aircraft maintenance engineer unless he or she is at least 18 years of age.
7. Application for aircraft maintenance engineer licence
(1) An application for an aircraft maintenance engineer licence and any associated rating shall be made in Form A set out in the Schedule to these Regulations.
(2) A person who applies for an aircraft maintenance engineer licence shall—
(a) demonstrate the ability to read, write, speak, and understand the English language, by reading and explaining appropriate maintenance publications and by writing defect and repair statements when required to do so by the Authority;
(b) comply with the knowledge, experience, and competency requirements prescribed for the licence and rating sought; and
(c) have passed all of the prescribed tests or examinations for the licence and rating sought, within a period of 24 months.
(3) An aircraft maintenance engineer who applies for an additional rating shall meet the requirements of this Part, and shall, within a period of 24 months, pass the tests prescribed for the additional rating sought.
8. Knowledge required for aircraft maintenance engineer licence
An applicant for an aircraft maintenance engineer licence shall pass a general knowledge test covering the following areas—
(a) air law and airworthiness requirements, in particular, rules and regulations relevant to an aircraft maintenance engineer licence holder, including—
(i) applicable airworthiness requirements governing certification and continuing airworthiness of aircraft, and
(ii) approved aircraft maintenance organisation procedures;
(b) natural science and aircraft general knowledge, including—
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