8 Maintaining a Licence
8.1 Routine Maintenance
8.1.1 Requirements
A licensed air traffic controller must not provide the air traffic control service associated with a valid rating unless he remains competent to provide that ATC service and holds a current medical certificate of the appropriate class.
Providers of air traffic services shall advise the CAA when a controller is no longer considered competent to provide the ATC service associated with a valid rating.
Air traffic control units must have procedures to ensure that controllers returning from extended periods of planned or unexpected absence, but who still satisfy the unit procedures for maintaining competence, are competent to provide the air traffic control services for which they hold valid ratings.
Providers of air traffic services shall ensure that a controller who is assessed as medically unfit to hold an ATC licence is withdrawn from operational duty.
Providers of air traffic services shall ensure that the CAA is advised when a controller is no longer medically fit to provide an air traffic control service.
ATC units must have procedures to ensure that controllers satisfy the unit requirements relating to the maintenance of operational competence.
These procedures shall include requirements for controllers to at least:
a) complete a minimum specified number of controlling hours within a specified period on the sectors or operational positions for which they hold valid ratings; and
b) be subject to an assessment of their continuing competence by continuous assessment, by a dedicated competence check, or by a combination of both.
Subject to approval by the CAA, all or part of the requirements detailed above for the maintenance or renewal of competence may be satisfied by the use of a simulator.
8.2 Maintenance of Competence
Controllers must maintain their competence as one of the requirements for holding a valid rating or ratings associated with the ATC licence.
8.2.1 Duration and Renewal of Unit Endorsement
A unit endorsement is issued for 12 months. It is renewable by an assessment of the controller’s competence to continue to provide the air traffic services on particular sectors or operational positions detailed in the unit endorsement.
The assessment of competence for renewal of a unit endorsement may be carried out within a 45-day period preceding the date of expiry of the current unit endorsement. Provided the controller is assessed as competent, the unit endorsement will be renewed for 12 months from the date of expiry of the current endorsement (date to date). ATS Providers shall maintain records of the renewal of Unit Endorsements.
NOTE: This periodicity is designed to ensure that unit endorsements are renewed by the due date. It is also consistent with the renewal period that applies to medical certificates under the European Class 3 Medical Requirements for air traffic controllers.
Providers of air traffic services shall ensure that the CAA is informed in the event that a unit endorsement is not renewed or is withdrawn.
8.2.2 Failure of a Competence Assessment or Failure to Renew a Unit Endorsement
A controller who fails a competence assessment, or fails to renew his unit endorsement, must not provide the air traffic control service(s) associated with the unit endorsement.
8.3 Duration and Renewal of OJT Instructor Licence Endorsement
The OJT Instructor Licence Endorsement is issued for a 3-year period. It is renewable by an assessment of the controller's competence to continue to train and supervise student or trainee air traffic controllers.
Providers of air traffic services at units where they are responsible for the provision of air traffic control services must have processes, procedures and competent personnel to ensure that holders of an OJT Instructor licence endorsement are assessed for competence at least every three years. The renewal of an OJT Instructor licence endorsement may be carried out within the 90-day period preceding the date of expiry of the current OJT Instructor licence endorsement. Provided the controller is assessed as competent, the OJT Instructor licence endorsement will be renewed for a further 3 years from the date of expiry of the current endorsement. Providers of air traffic services shall inform the CAA of the outcome of the assessment in all cases.
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