1. Overview
The flight procedure development process involves input from a variety of personnel. Surveyors, AIS personnel, ground validation personnel, flight validation pilots and designers all play a key role in the development of a quality flight procedure. To ensure quality it is essential to provide competency-based training and assessment to all contributors to the flight procedure development process, as indicated in ICAO Doc 8168, PANS OPS Volume II, Part I, Section 2, Chapter 4, 4.7, Procedure Designer Qualifications and Training. While this training manual focuses on the competency requirements that a flight procedure designer should achieve, it should be understood that the designer’s work depends on other personnel also meeting competency standards.
The activities of flight procedure designers are considered critical to the safety of aviation. The provision of erroneous, incomplete or badly designed flight procedures and associated minima has direct consequences to the users.
Recently, the procedure design work has become more critical due to:
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increasing complexity;
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increased importance of data integrity, especially for modern RNAV and satellite-based navigation; and
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introduction of new avionics.
The State is responsible for the safety of all instrument flight procedures in their airspace. Safety is not only accomplished by application of the technical criteria in PANS-OPS and associated ICAO provisions, but it also requires measures that control the quality of the process used to apply that criteria, which may include regulation, air traffic monitoring, ground validation and flight validation.
Training is one of the most important elements of quality assurance. Each State must establish standards for the required competency level for flight procedure design. Each State must ensure that flight procedures designers have acquired and are maintaining competency levels through training and supervised on-the-job training (OJT).
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