The Air Navigation Order 2016

CHAPTER 3 Flight information services and licensing of flight information service officers

Prohibition of unlicensed flight information service officers

199.—(1) A person must not act as a flight information service officer at any aerodrome or area control centre or hold himself or herself out, whether by use of a radio call sign or in any other way, as a person who may so act unless—

(a) they hold and comply with the terms of a flight information service officer’s licence granted under this Order authorising the holder to act as such an officer at that aerodrome or area control centre; and

(b) they have identified themselves in such a manner as may be notified.

(2) In this Chapter, “acting as a flight information service officer” means giving a flight information service.

Licensing of flight information service officers

200.—(1) The CAA must grant a flight information service officer licence to any person aged 18 years or more if it is satisfied that the applicant—

(a) is a fit person to hold the licence; and

(b) is qualified by having the knowledge, experience, competence, skill and physical and mental fitness to act in the capacity to which the licence relates.

(2) The applicant must supply such evidence and undergo such examinations and tests and undertake such courses of training as the CAA may require.

(3) The licence may be issued subject to such conditions as the CAA thinks fit.

(4) A licence to act as a flight information service officer—

(a) may be renewed by the CAA from time to time, when it is satisfied that the applicant is a fit person and is qualified in accordance with paragraph (1);

(b) remains in force, subject to article 253, for the period indicated in the licence or if no period is indicated, for the lifetime of the holder.

(5) A flight information service officer’s licence does not authorise the giving of a flight information service at an aerodrome or area control centre unless—

(a) that aerodrome or area control centre has been specified in the licence by a person authorised by the CAA for the purpose; and

(b) the licence has been validated for that aerodrome or area control centre by a person authorised for the purpose by the CAA.

(6) If, throughout any period of 90 days, the holder of the licence has not at any time given such a service at a particular aerodrome or area control centre, the licence ceases to be valid for that aerodrome or area control centre at the end of that period until the licence has been revalidated for that aerodrome or area control centre by a person authorised by the CAA for the purpose.

(7) A licence to act as a flight information service officer is not valid unless it has been signed by the holder in ink or indelible pencil.

(8) Every holder of a flight information service officer’s licence must, on such occasions as the CAA may require, submit to such examinations and tests and supply such evidence of the holder’s knowledge, experience, competence and skill and undergo such courses of training as the CAA may require.

Flight information service manual

201.—(1) Subject to paragraph (2), a person must not provide a flight information service at any aerodrome or area control centre unless—

(a) the service is provided in accordance with the standards and procedures specified in a flight information service manual for that aerodrome or area control centre;

(b) the manual is produced to the CAA within a reasonable time after a request for its production is made by the CAA; and

(c) such amendments or additions have been made to the manual as the CAA may from time to time require.

(2) Paragraph (1) does not apply to any person who is required to be certified under Article 7 of the Service Provision Regulation.