Stage: Final Publications

Regulatory Agency Final Publications

FAA AIR600-19-600-DM01 Deviation to FAA Orders and Policy to Address Training, Oversight, and Renewal Requirement Due Dates for Certain Designees Impacted by the December 2018 Lapse in FAA Funding

This memorandum provides a deviation to the training, oversight, and renewal requirement due
dates identified in FAA Orders 8000.95, 8100.15, 8900.1, 8900.2, and 8100.8, and FAA policy
memorandum AIR100-17-160-PM02 and is necessary because of the lapse in FAA funding that
began on December 22, 2018. This deviation allows Aircraft Certification Service (AIR) and
Flight Standards (FS) personnel to extend the due date for designee recurrent training, oversight,
and renewal for those due on or after December 22, 2018, to April 30, 2019.
Designees in good standing, including Organization Designation Authorization (ODA) holders
may continue to perform authorized functions in an active status, regardless of the status
indicated in the Designee Information Network (DIN), Vital Information Subsystem (VIS) or the
Designee Management System (OMS), unless otherwise notified by the FAA. Although the
DIN/VIS/DMS database may indicate the delegation has expired, this deviation will supersede
the database status until May 1, 2019.
This deviation does not include relief for Air Carrier Check Pilot observations and does not
supersede any individual designee performance management communication or activities, or
other actions that are or will be processed.

FAA Notice N8900.504 Expanded Unmanned Aircraft Systems Oversight

This notice outlines updated Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS)
surveillance requirements for Flight Standards District Offices (FSDO) to immediately
incorporate into their Fiscal Year (FY) 2019 National Work Program Guidelines (NPG) work
plans. It also provides guidance for doing the necessary analysis and coordination that either
trigger the requirements or help target the required activity.

FAA AC_65-30B Overview of the Aviation Maintenance Profession

This AC was prepared by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Flight Standards Service to provide information to prospective Airframe and Powerplant (A&P) mechanics and other aviation maintenance professionals interested in a career in aviation maintenance. It contains general information of the requirements to become a certificated or noncertificated aviation maintenance professional.

ED Decision 2019/004/R Remote aerodrome air traffic services

The concept of remote provision of aerodrome air traffic services (ATS) (commonly known as ‘remote towers’
or ‘remote tower operations’, sometimes referred to as ‘digital towers’) enables the provision of aerodrome
ATS from locations/facilities without direct visual observation. Instead, provision of aerodrome ATS is based on
observation of the aerodrome and its vicinity through means of technology. The term which is used to describe
this concept within this ED Decision is ‘remote aerodrome ATS’.
This Decision addresses operational, procedural, technological and human resource aspects of remote
aerodrome ATS, as well as the management of change, with the main objective of facilitating its safe
implementation and operation, in accordance with the objectives of ATS. Other objectives are to support costefficient and proportionate ATS, to facilitate harmonised implementation, and to provide a level playing field
for the stakeholders.
This Decision issues ‘Guidance Material on remote aerodrome air traffic services’ — Issue 2, as well as an
updated set of Acceptable Means of Compliance (AMC) and Guidance Material (GM) to Commission Regulation
(EU) 2015/340 concerning ATCO licensing. Both parts are expected to support ATS providers and aerodrome
operators implementing remote aerodrome ATS, as well as to support their competent authorities.

ED Decision 2019/005/R Loss of control prevention and recovery training

The objective of this Decision is to address a safety and regulatory coordination issue related to aeroplane loss of
control in-flight (LOC-I). The following initiatives are linked to this Decision:
— various accident safety recommendations (SRs);
— safety actions deriving from the European Plan for Aviation Safety (EPAS); and
— amended International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) Standards and Recommended Practices (SARPs).
The specific objective is to improve the level of safety by ensuring that pilots have the competencies to prevent LOCI and the resilience to recover from aeroplane upsets.
On 20 December 2018, Commission Regulation (EU) 2018/1974 entered into force. Said Regulation amends
Commission Regulation (EU) No 1178/2011 (the Aircrew Regulation) by introducing new requirements for upset
prevention and recovery training (UPRT) for pilots in its Annex I (Part-FCL). This Decision contains the related
acceptable means of compliance (AMC) and guidance material (GM) as well as revised AMC & GM to Annex VII (PartORA) to the Aircrew Regulation regarding the implementation of UPRT in type rating training programmes of approved
training organisations (ATOs). Additionally, this Decision amends the AMC & GM to Annex I (Definitions) and Annex
III (Part-ORO) to Commission Regulation (EU) No 965/2012 (the Air OPS Regulation) in order to align the existing UPRT
provisions for operator-related training with the new UPRT regulatory framework in Part-FCL.
The Annexes to the Decision are the following:
— Annex I: Amendments to the AMC & GM to Part-FCL of the Aircrew Regulation;
— Annex II: Amendments to the AMC & GM to Part-ORA of the Aircrew Regulation;
— Annex III: Amendments to the GM to Annex I (Definitions) to the Air OPS Regulation; and
— Annex IV: Amendments to the AMC & GM to Part-ORO of the Air OPS Regulation.
The amendments will be applicable from 20 December 2019 and are expected to increase safety and ensure alignment
with ICAO standards. They outline the detailed content of basic, advanced and type-specific UPRT to be provided at
various stages of a professional pilot’s career. The qualification requirements for instructors to provide each type of
UPRT are also described.
Passengers will benefit from an improved level of safety and, specifically, from a reduction in the frequency of
aeroplane accidents caused by LOC-I.