EASA Issued a New Safety Report

Nov 12 in Safety News

EASA and “together4safety” prepared a new safety report

“Safety Issue Report – Skills and Knowledge Degradation due to Lack of Recent Practice”

The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in early 2020 has created an unprecedented situation for the aviation industry. With significant reduction in air traffic, most aviation professionals are no longer able to perform their normal tasks. Instead, they might be doing a substantially different job, and some might not working at all or at a substantially reduced frequency. The extended period of low recency is both long and affects a large number of aviation personnel, making it different from the usual sick leave or sabbatical leave.

In addition, training may not be taking place at the pace required to keep aviation professionals current. While organisations are making the effort to ramp up training activity, they face a multitude of challenges the closure of training centres, lack of simulators, and lack of available instructors and trainers whose instructional knowledge may have also eroded during this period. Furthermore, new or updated procedures have been developed to cope with the changes in operations. With the aforementioned training constraints, aviation professionals may not be effectively trained in the updated systems and procedures upon their return to work.

Together, this creates a reduction in the skills and knowledge of aviation professionals, and with it associated safety risks.

This document provides guidance to support organisations and aviation professionals (in particular, air traffic controllers (ATCOs), commercial flight crew, aerodrome operations staff, ground handling staff and maintenance engineers) in managing skills and knowledge decay in the context of the COVID-19 crisis.

you may find more information about aircraft maintenance engineers profession on page 6.

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