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Implementation of Evidence Based Training (EBT)

While in general ECA endorses EBT and the principle of ‘less checking more training’ a cautious approach to the implementation of EBT is crucial, while keeping in mind several essential safeguards. 

May 22, 2019
Evidence Based Training, Position Paper ECA 2019
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
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
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
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
Ionizing Radiation

Protection from Ionizing Radiation

Despite the international recognition that cosmic radiation poses a workplace health risk to airline pilots, there is an immediate requirement for comprehensive research into all forms of radiation exposures of airline pilots. Keeping in mind the complexity of exposures in the cockpit

Jul 09, 2018
Protection from Ionizing Radiation Position Paper
pilot shortage

Pilot shortage in Europe: Fact or fiction?

If you asked any European pilot if there is currently a pilot shortage, most of them would probably laugh. Few pilots in Europe would be willing to agree with media headlines about the ‘looming pilot shortage’. Then how come we are always hearing about the hundreds of thousands of pilots

Mar 29, 2018
Pilot Shortage: Fact or fiction, ECA 2018
background checks

The Intelligence Component of Pilots’ Background Checks

European legislation prescribes that flight crew members must periodically have a background check that covers at least criminal records. ECA fully endorses the provisions of EU Regulation 300/2008, Annex 1.2.4 according to which “persons, including flight crew members, should have

Nov 28, 2017
The Intelligence Component of Background Checks, ECA Position Paper 2017.pdf
atypical self-employment pilots

Atypical employment in European aviation

Direct and indefinite employment contracts should remain the general form of employment relationship between employers and workers. Abuse and illegal use of atypical employment create precariousness, reduce workers’ rights and downgrade their working conditions

Nov 07, 2017
Atypical Employment, ECA Position Paper 2017
foreign crew

Fitness Check on EU legal migration legislation

ECA welcomes the Commission’s Fitness Check exercise and believes that the current process of consultation is a unique opportunity to bring to the attention of DG HOME the European pilots’ views concerning the situation of international air transport.

Sep 27, 2017
Fitness check EU migration legislation, ECA contribution 2017.pdf
Aircraft refueling

Fuel Policy – Safety & Consistency

ECA emphasizes the need to have and adhere to a safe and consistent fuel policy, which complies with the following recommendations as a minimum. Developments in the regulatory framework and trends in operational practices influence fuel policies.

Jun 21, 2017
Fuel policy - safety and consistency, ECA 2017.pdf
CAQ

ECA guidelines on smoke & fume/ smell events

The ECA Task Group on Cabin Air Quality introduces these guidelines with the intention to give each ECA Member Association the opportunity to adapt them to their needs and local procedures and to thereby enhance the flight crews’ reporting of these events.

Jun 09, 2017
Guidelines on smoke, fume, smell events, ECA 2017.pdf

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