EASA’s Basic Regulation permits the Agency to launch and finance research projects within its competence, which includes safety, security, environmental protection and health.
With consideration to the pace of technological developments and changes to business models within aviation, EASA research activities need to expand beyond the Agency’s internal needs and resources.
Safety, security, environmental protection and health topics are key cross-cutting issues to be tackled as early as possible within research activities and need to be addressed in a coordinated manner with the commensurate involvement of the regulators.
EASA is involved in several European and national research projects usually in an advising role. EASA provides advice and guidance as required to ensure the development of the required solutions whilst ensuring the highest safety performance, environmental protection and standards for the European aviation system. This is achieved either through the reinforcement of existing capabilities or the development of new ones in order to provide responses to identified shortcomings.
This notice defines a new process for Flight Standards District
Offices (FSDO) to review, submit, and revise aeronautical data to the Aeronautical Information
Services (AIS) Aeronautical Data Team (AJV-A3) in support of the National Airspace System
(NAS) Miscellaneous Activity Areas (MAA) (Long Term Aerobatic Practice Areas (LT APA),
Gliders, Hang Gliders, Ultralight and Parachute Jumping Areas). It also establishes the minimum
operation activity to be eligible for charting, and it establishes an interaction between the Federal
Aviation Administration (FAA) and the aviation community relating to the submission of MAA
information for charting.
This notice announces the clarification of guidance in Federal
Aviation Administration (FAA) Order 8900.1, Volume 5, Chapter 9, Section 2, Airman
Qualification Requirements for Aircraft for Which the Operating Limitations Require an
FAA-Issued Authorization to Act as Pilot in Command. This notice supersedes any previous
guidance or policy.
Therefore, the requirement for flights to the United States carrying persons who had recently traveled from, or were otherwise present within, the above listed countries to fly into one of 15 designated airports are terminated at 12:01 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time (EDT) on September 14.
Other measures to protect public health remain in place.
The objective of ED Decision 2020/013/R is to address an urgent implementation issue that has been identified in the field of upset prevention and recovery training (UPRT) which is delivered in accordance with Annex III (Part-ORO) to Regulation (EU) No 965/2012.
With ED Decision 2019/025/R ‘AMC & GM to Part ORO — Issue 2, Amendment 16’ of 17 December 2019, the acceptable means of compliance (AMC) to points ORO.FC.220 and ORO.FC.230 of Annex III (Part-ORO) to Regulation (EU) No 965/2012 were updated in order to clarify that in order to provide upset recovery training related to dynamic upsets, high-altitude stall events and icing effects, it is necessary to utilise aeroplane flight simulation training devices (FSTDs) that are updated in accordance with ED Decision 2018/006/R ‘CS-FSTD(A) — Issue 2’. These amendments were set to apply from 20 August 2020 to ensure that enough FSTDs are available for use by the EU air operators, by granting FSTD manufacturers and FSTD operators sufficient time to implement the necessary updates and to receive the respective approvals from their competent authorities.
However, the COVID-19 pandemic and the resulting constraints have led and continue to lead to significant delays in the FSTD update process in accordance with CS-FSTD(A) — Issue 2. For this reason, ED Decision 2020/013/R defers the applicability date of CS-FSTD(A) — Issue 2 for providing UPRT in accordance with Annex III (Part-ORO) until 31 March 2021. This date was proposed during stakeholder consultations and it also corresponds to the date that has been agreed at ICAO level as the date where any COVID-19-related deviations from international civil aviation standards will cease to apply.
This amendment is expected to address the COVID-19-related issues regarding the implementation of CS-FSTD(A) — Issue 2 while ensuring its application without undue delay.
