Saint Petersburg 2011

Civil Aviation Authority of the Republic of Poland

Update on the national implementation practices

Current issues related to Language Proficiency Requirements

• All ATCO’s and Pilots tested

• License endorsement process completed by end of May 2011

• Examiner and rater re-acreditation process completed

• National Administrators re-acreditaion process completed

• Separation of initial and recurrent testing initiative

• Amendments of National Regulations concerning Licensing in

progress

ICAO LPR compliance after March 5, 2011

ATCO’s – ELPAC test

• All ATCO’s tested• 94% received Level 4 or 5• Remaining – do not work as ATCO’s

PILOTS – RELTA test / foreign tests

• All pilots involved in international operations tested• 96% recived Level 4, 5 or 6• Remaining – do not operate internationally

ICAO LPR compliance after March 5, 2011

• Number of exams – above 200

• Number of license endorsements – above 400 (including tests taken outside Poland)

since January 2011 until end of March 2011

End-users perspective

ATCO’s – ELPAC test

• No complaints (keyboard issue)

PILOTS – RELTA test

• Too difficult

– another option (commercial test adopted in Poland)

• Test scenarios vs. real life situations

Co-operation of States

• LP tests taken outside Poland

• Co-operation of CAA’s to ensure validity of LP test

certificates

Poland is currently co-operating with a number of foreign Civil Aviation Authorities to ensure ICAO LPR compliance:Belgium, Czech Republic, Germany, Lithuania, Romania, Slovak Republic, Ukraine, United Kingdom, United States, Vietnam. – Thank you for your support and proffessionalism!

Difficulties

• Acceptance of non EU endorsements

• „Level 4 is Level 4” – quality / equality of different LP tests

• Inconsistent legal regulations

• Discontent of aviation industry

Thank you for your attention!