Next Generation of Aviation Professionals (NGAP) Initiatives

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Next Generation of Aviation Professionals (NGAP)
Initiatives
TRAINRO/1-PPT/28

• First Training Course of Regional Officers
• (FLS and ATM Regional Officers)
• Montreal, 16 - 27 November 2009

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Outline of Presentation

• Chronology
• Update on ICAO collaboration in ITQI
• Report on NGAP Roundtable
• Report on first meeting of NGAP Task Force
• Report on preparation for upcoming NGAP Symposium
• Next steps and summary

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Chronology

• October 2007 Launch of ITQI
• Since January 2008 Ongoing ICAO support to ITQI
• 1 October 2008 ICAO/IATA informal briefing to
  Council on Next Generation of Aviation
  Professionals
• 21 to 22 May 2009 NGAP Roundtable
• 8 to 9 October 2009 First meeting of NGAP
  Task Force
• 1 to 4 March 2010 NGAP Symposium
• 5 March 2010 Second meeting of NGAP Task Force

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IATA Training Qualifications Initiative (ITQI)
Goals Focus

• Develop and introduce competency-based training
• Ensure harmonized implementation
• Identify means to improve industry attractiveness
• Focus on Flight Operations and
• Engineering and Maintenance

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ICAOs collaboration in ITQI
ITQI Organization
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ITQI Deliverables andICAO Documentation

• Engineering maintenance
• Procedures for competency-based training to be
  included in ICAO Doc 9868 PANS- Training
• Guidelines for approved training organizations to
  be included in amended ICAO Doc 9841 - Approval
  of Flight Crew Training Organizations

• Flight operations
• Procedures for Evidence-based training to be
  included in ICAO Doc 9868 PANS- Training with
  supporting guidance in a manual
• Procedures for MPL Instructor and Evaluator
  qualifications to be included in ICAO Doc 9868
  PANS- Training

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NGAP Roundtable Objectives

• Other aviation professions
• Improve recruitment and retention
• Improve and harmonize training processes

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NGAP Roundtable(21-22 May 2009)

• What is constraining recruitment, retention and
  training/education of pilots, controllers, and
  maintenance personnel as well as other aviation
  professionals? and
• What global initiatives can facilitate the
  recruitment, retention and training/education?

• 43 participants from regulatory organizations,
  industry, international associations, education
  and training organizations

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Actions identified in three areas
Human Resource Planning Methodology Outreach
Training needs and capacity Flexibility and variety Emerging aviation specialties Transition to competency-based approach Amendments to Annex 1 and PANS-Training Partnerships Global promotion
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NGAP Roundtable Outcomes

• Consensus that staff shortage issues will cause
  serious problems
• Established NGAP Task Force
• NGAP Task Force activities complementary to ITQI
• ICAO GENERATE website

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First Meeting of theNGAP Task Force (NGAP TF/1)

• 8 to 9 October 2009
• 29 participants representing international
  organizations, universities, regulatory
  authorities and industry

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NGAPTF/1 Objectives

• Establish the work programme
• Magnitude of shortage (near-term and long-term)
• Region
• Career path
• Best practices for attracting,
  educating/training, and retaining next generation
• What ICAO can do
• Increase geographical representation
• Advise for the planning of the NGAP Symposium

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NGAPTF Proposed Action ItemsHuman Resource
Planning

• Collection of readily accessible data
• Pilots, controllers, maintenance technicians and
  engineers, ATSEPs, and regulatory personnel
• Data including but not limited to
• numbers of type ratings and licenses
• manufacturers data including those for smaller
  airplanes
• associations membership data
• Data for airport/airline managers
• Consider how to collect data on non-licensed
  personnel

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NGAPTF Proposed Action ItemsOutreach

• Data for applicants and enrolment in education
  and training programmes
• Survey aimed at the next generation to identify
• perceptions of the next generation
• differentiated by regions
• barriers
• Profile for its impact on
• learning styles and instructional methods
• recruitment practices

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NGAPTF Proposed Action ItemsMethodology (1)

• Consider Annex 1 amendment and development of
  guidance for the approval of training
  organizations that deliver competency-based
  training
•  Enhanced Doc 9841 Manual on the Approval of
  Flight Crew Training Organizations
• Partnerships to establish an MPL data collection
  based on State letter AN 12/50-07/37
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• Consider revising Annex 1 to enable industry set
  standards and certification as an alternative
  means of compliance for the issuance of a licence
• Consider harmonization of testing of knowledge
  requirement for ATPL
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NGAPTF Proposed Action ItemsMethodology (2)

• Expand PANS-Training document and guidance
  material to other aviation professions
• Pilot licences other than the MPL
• Controllers
• ATSEPs
• Maintenance personnel competencies (under
  development through ITQI)
• Definitions of core competencies for
  airport/airline managers
• Expand the PANS-Training to include procedures
  for the training and assessment of threat and
  error management

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NGAPTF Immediate Next Steps

• Inventory of readily accessible data to be
  completed
• Workplan for review and analysis of data
  collected
• Report to next meeting of the NGAPTF

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NGAP Symposium

• 1 to 4 March 2010
• State letter AN 11/46-09/74
• www.icao.int/ngap

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NGAP Symposium

• Looking beyond the economic crisis mobilizing
  the aviation community to recruit, educate, train
  and retain the next generation of aviation
  professionals".

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NGAP Symposium

• Propose specific actions to
• update and modify the regulatory environment and
  
• mobilize the community to revitalize the image of
  aviation professions

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Draft NGAP Symposium Programme(1 March 2010)

• Pre-symposium workshops
• English only
• Proposed topics
• Evidence-based training (EBT)
• Competency-based maintenance training and
  assessment

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Draft NGAP Symposium Programme(2 to 4 March 2010)

• Topic 1 Wanted! Aviation professionals
• Topic 2 Educating and training the next
  generation
• Topic 3 Updating and harmonizing regulations
• Closing Symposium conclusions to be reported to
  the 37th Session of the Assembly

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ICAO Doc 9868 PANS-Training Competency-based
approach for maintenance

• ICAO Preliminary review during ANC Session of 12
  April to 18 June 2010
• ICAO final review during ANC Session of 18
  October to 17 December 2010
• ICAO applicability (1st Amendment PANS-TRG) in
  December 2010

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ICAO Doc 9868 PANS-Training Evidence-based
training and instructor and evaluator
qualifications

• ICAO preliminary review during ANC Session in
  early 2011
• ICAO final review during ANC Session of Spring
  2011
• ICAO applicability (2nd Amendment PANS-TRG)
  during third quarter of 2011

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Summary

• Close collaboration with IATA will result in
  draft materials for consideration by the ANC
  starting next year
• Actions to quantify and qualify the challenge of
  the NGAP initiated
• Expansion of the circle of partners and
  collaborators through NGAP Task Force
• Symposium an opportunity to define future NGAP
  work programme

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Thank you.