Personnel Training and Licensing Panel
Background
Following proposals for amendments (PfAs) proposed by the Competency-Based Training and Assessment Task Force (CBTA-TF), comments from States and international organisations raised additional CBTA and non-CBTA training and licensing matters of concern to States across technical disciplines. To address those matters, ICAO convened a Personnel Training and Licensing Exploratory Meeting (PTL-EM) in 2019. The PTL-EM raised a number of recommendations and considered they would be most effectively progressed in a holistic manner. Furthermore, several papers presented at the 40th Session of the Assembly requested ICAO to address similar issues. The Personnel Training and Licensing Panel (PTLP) has been established to enable the coordinated review and development of personnel training and licensing requirements within and across technical disciplines.
Scope
The PTLP will undertake specific studies and develop ICAO provisions related to aviation personnel training and licensing, including studies to ensure that proposed amendments to the Standards and Recommended Practices (SARPs) reflect current and emerging requirements, improvements in training tools and technologies, new training methodologies while reviewing automation dependency and possible mitigations.
Required expertise
The PTLP is composed of experts familiar with the provisions of ICAO Annex 1, PANS-Training (Doc 9868), and associated guidance material with experience in any of the following: - Licensing of aviation personnel (e.g., pilot, remote pilot, flight navigator, flight engineer, aircraft maintenance personnel, air traffic controller, flight operations officer, aeronautical station operator); - The application of CBTA and/or EBT; - Personnel training and approved training organizations; - Automation dependency; - The qualification of flight simulation training devices (FSTDs), and simulation training devices (STDs) for air traffic controller training; - Regulatory oversight of licensing; - Human factors.
About the Panel...
Objectives
Develop, maintain, and address the evolving needs of SARPs and guidance material for: - Personnel licensing; - Personnel training including CBTA; - Approved training organizations; - Simulation training devices. - Emerging issues.
Working arrangements
As defined in Section 3.4.5.2 of ICAO Doc 7984, Directives for Panels of the Air Navigation Commission, the panel chairperson may establish additional working groups as necessary. The PTLP should coordinate its work with the various groups of experts responsible for other Annexes and disciplines, as appropriate.
Our representative
Mrs. Ausra Straume works as an air traffic controller for the Latvian Air Navigation Service Provider – SJSC "Latvijas gaisa satiksme", Area control surveillance (ACS). She is currently Chair of the Board of the Latvian Federation of Aviation Trade Unions, after holding for ten years the position of Deputy Chair on that board.
Mrs. Straume is an ATC OJT Instructor (“GATE” aviation training) as well as an assessor/examinator. She has held in the past the positions of: Manager of theoretical and practical training (Riga Aeronautical Institute), Director (Latvian Air Traffic Controllers Association), Chair and Deputy Chair of the Board (Latvian Air Traffic Controllers Trade Union).
Mrs. Straume can be reached at [email protected].
(Source: ICAO. (2020). PTLP - Terms of Reference.)