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  • Three years of harmonised fatigue for European pilots

    Editorial
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    12 February 2019

    Europe’s pilot community looks forward to the study report on night duties & disruptive schedules by EASA

  • Enhanced pilot background checks to feature intelligence information

    News article
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    11 February 2019

    The EU introduces revised rules on pilots’ background checks.

  • Recruiting & assessing the pilots: Who does what?

    News article
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    11 February 2019

    The industry is ripe for a new approach to recruiting & assessing pilots 

  • Specific Operations Risk Assessment (SORA)

    Position paper
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    28 January 2019

    SORA (Specific Operations Risk Assessment) is a multi-stage process of risk assessment aiming at risk analysis of certain unmanned aircraft operations.

  • With drones, who has the ‘skin in the game’?

    Editorial
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    16 January 2019

    “Go Around.” These words, and the reactions to them, are some of the most important to a pilot, whether initiated themselves or by air traffic controllers. They are probably the words that have prevented more accidents than any other, and would have avoided many that did happen, if they’d only been used.

News

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Three years of harmonised fatigue for European pilots

A key part of the FTL regulation was a requirement mandated by the European Parliament in the face of evidence that the original rules exceeded the recommendations of fatigue scientists in a number of areas. It required a scientific study to be undertaken, examining six areas where there

Editorial
Feb 12, 2019
background checks

Enhanced pilot background checks to feature intelligence information

A new revision of the EU regulation on pilots’ background checks introduces an “intelligence pillar” as of 31 Dec 2020. The new requirement to include and analyse intelligence information will become a mandatory element of the thorough background checks which pilots undergo every 5 year.

News article
Feb 11, 2019
ato

Recruiting & assessing the pilots: Who does what?

The way we screen and recruit pilot cadets in Europe is an issue that lately has been raising eyebrows amongst industry experts. Today, the bulk of training schools screen their future clients – the cadets ¬– themselves. The industry has turned a blind eye to this conflict of interest for
News article
Feb 11, 2019
Drones

Drone Sighting Guidelines

Pilots and Air Traffic Controllers should be familiar with the best practice “Drone Sighting Guidelines” (developed by BALPA and GATCO and widely endorsed), and follow them.

News article
Jan 16, 2019
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Positions

Unmanned aircraft operations

Specific Operations Risk Assessment (SORA)

SORA (Specific Operations Risk Assessment) is a multi-stage process of risk assessment aiming at risk analysis of certain unmanned aircraft operations, as well as defining necessary mitigations and robustness levels.

Jan 28, 2019
Specific Operations Risk Assessment (SORA), Position Paper ECA 2019.pdf (270.31 KB)
pilot supply

Pilot Supply

There is no issue with the availability of licensed pilots in most European countries. There is however a growing issue with the employer’s perceived quality of pilots graduating from the flight schools. Attracting, properly selecting and training the right candidates are the core

Sep 26, 2018
Pilot Supply, Position Paper ECA 2018.pdf (271.58 KB)
Interoperability

Crew Interoperability - the bigger picture

This position paper focuses on the challenges and the potential risks of Crew Interoperability. Its aim is to point out questions that need to be answered and risks that need to be mitigated.

Jul 24, 2018
Crew Interoperability Position Paper, ECA 2018.pdf (380.13 KB)
maintenance

Pilot insight into recent maintenance works

ECA fully shares the concerns of AEI (Aircraft Engineers International) with regard to the practice in several EU countries that reduce the release into service by licensed engineers to a mere administrative task without any physical inspection of the work performed. 

Jul 09, 2018
Pilot insight into recent maintenance works Position Paper, ECA 2018.pdf (182.84 KB)
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Atypical employment in aviation

stopp2f

Major opportunity to stop Pay-to-Fly!

crew sharing

Pilot sharing – The new kid on the ‘atypical employment’ block

atypical self-employment pilots

Atypical employment in European aviation

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about us

About us

Created in 1991, the European Cockpit Association is the representative body of European pilots at EU level. 

 

our members

Our members

We represent over 38,000 pilots from the national pilot associations in 37 European states and 2 states from outside the European region.

expertise

Expertise

We are a recognised social partner and make every effort to ensure that aviation safety is in the driving principle of future European rules.

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The European Cockpit Association represents the collective interests of professional pilots at European level, striving for the highest levels of aviation safety and fostering social rights and quality employment.

 

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