[F1 ANNEX VII U.K. ORGANISATION REQUIREMENTS FOR AIRCREW

Textual Amendments

F1 Inserted by Commission Regulation (EU) No 290/2012 of 30 March 2012 amending Regulation (EU) No 1178/2011 laying down technical requirements and administrative procedures related to civil aviation aircrew pursuant to Regulation (EC) No 216/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council.

SUBPART ATO APPROVED TRAINING ORGANISATIONS U.K.

SECTION I U.K. General

ORA.ATO.135 Training aircraft and FSTDs U.K.

[F2 (a) The ATO shall use an adequate fleet of training aircraft or FSTDs appropriately equipped for the training courses provided. The fleet of aircraft shall be composed of aircraft that comply with all requirements defined in Regulation (EU) 2018/1139. Aircraft that fall under points (a), (b), (c) or (d) of Annex I to Regulation (EU) 2018/1139, may be used for training if all of the following conditions are met: U.K.

(1)

during an evaluation process the competent authority has confirmed a level of safety comparable to the one defined by all essential requirements laid down in Annex II to Regulation (EU) 2018/1139;

(2)

the competent authority has authorised the use of the aircraft for training in the ATO.]

Textual Amendments

F2 Substituted by Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/1747 of 15 October 2019 amending Regulation (EU) No 1178/2011 as regards requirements for certain flight crew licences and certificates, rules on training organisations and competent authorities (Text with EEA relevance).

(b) The ATO shall only provide training in FSTDs when it demonstrates to the competent authority: U.K.

(1)

the adequacy between the FSTD specifications and the related training programme;

(2)

that the FSTDs used comply with the relevant requirements of Part-FCL;

(3)

in the case of full flight simulators (FFSs), that the FFS adequately represents the relevant type of aircraft; and

(4)

that it has put in place a system to adequately monitor changes to the FSTD and to ensure that those changes do not affect the adequacy of the training programme.

(c) If the aircraft used for the skill test is of a different type to the FFS used for the visual flight training, the maximum credit shall be limited to that allocated for flight and navigation procedures trainer II (FNPT II) for aeroplanes and FNPT II/III for helicopters in the relevant flight training programme. U.K.

(d) Flight test training organisations. Aircraft used for flight test training shall be appropriately equipped with flight testing instrumentation, according to the purpose of the training.] U.K.