The objective of this Decision is to address a non-controversial safety and regulatory-coordination issue linked with pilot
training and licencing. The Decision amends the acceptable means of compliance (AMC)/guidance material (GM) to
Annex I (Part-FCL), Annex VI (Part-ARA) and Annex VII (Part-ORA) to Regulation (EU) No 1178/2011 (the ‘Aircrew
Regulation’) in order to improve their accuracy and effectiveness, by correcting inconsistencies and editorial errors. The
amendments are expected to ensure clarity of the related AMC/GM, thus improving the regulatory framework, promote
a competitive environment, provide for alignment with International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), and maintain the
current level of safety.
On 30 November 2016, the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) published Notice of Proposed Amendment
(NPA) 2016-16 proposing amendments not only to Part-FCL, Part-ARA, and Part-ORA of the Aircrew Regulation, as well
as to Annex III thereto, but also to related and non-related AMC/GM. This Decision amends only those AMC/GM that are
not affected by the respective changes in the rule text — the related CRD 2016-16 Issue 1 will be annexed to this
Decision. Therefore, the Opinion with the proposed amendments to the rule text and the related CRD 2016-06 Issue 2
annexed thereto are expected to be published in 2019/Q1.
As this Decision amends various AMC/GM to the Aircrew Regulation, the following three different annexes are annexed
thereto:
— Annex I: AMC/GM to Part-FCL;
— Annex II: AMC/GM to Part-ARA; and
— Annex III: AMC/GM to Part-ORA.

This document contains explanations on newly developed acceptable means of compliance (AMC) and guidance material
(GM), which are intended to complement the implementing rules (IRs) on aircraft tracking and underwater locating
devices (ULDs).
The AMC and GM are related to the following topics:
— Minimum performance objectives and guidance for an aircraft tracking system; and
— Requirement to install a ULD on board an aeroplane performing long-range over-water flight.

The objective of this Decision is to amend the acceptable means of compliance (AMC) and guidance material (GM) to
Annex I (Part 21) as follows:
— Introduce into the text of GM 21.A.101 the amendments developed by the Continuous Improvement Team (CIT);
and
— Update the AMC to 21.A.143, 21.A.243, 21.A.14(b), 21.A.112B(b) and 21.A.432B(b) Flight Test Operations Manual
(FTOM), and create a new AMC No 3 to Appendix XII to introduce new means for test organisations (part of a
design organisation approval (DOA)/production organisation approval (POA)) to demonstrate the compliance of a
lead flight test engineer (LFTE) based on a previous title (i.e. a holder of a national licence or a person already
nominated as an LFTE by another organisation).
The amendments are expected to improve harmonisation with the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and Transport
Canada Civil Aviation (TCCA) and to reduce the regulatory burden for design organisations