SAFA OPS

COURSE SPECIFICATION

Overview:

This 2.5-day course gives the trainees insight into the flight preparation activities as pilots typically carry out during the turnaround. The first two days are in a classroom environment. On the third day, 30-minute role play exercises are held in a flight simulator with an experienced pilot in the captain's seat. This provides a unique opportunity for the inspectors to further improve their crew interaction skills as well as to bring into practice the knowledge gained in the classroom.

In addition, one module is dedicated to the AOC and the airline organization, thus enabling the trainee to understand the role of the pilots, and that of the pilot-in-command in particular, within the broader context of the airline's operational control.

This course was developed jointly by an NAA ramp check inspector, an airline's head of Operations Safety and Flight Simulation Company (FSC).

Objective:

This training gives SAFA inspectors insight into those operational aspects of flight preparation that can be overseen in the time that an aircraft is on the ground during a stopover between flights, i.e. when the flight crew is present. Although the flight preparation process is an operator and flight crew responsibility, the SAFA inspector, in his supervisory role, should be able to judge whether the process is performed correctly. This training course will provide the monitoring tools to the participants to make such a  judgement.

Benefits:

Participants having attended this training course will be able to inspect with sound expertise and knowledge and a good level of confidence, those items of the SAFA Ramp Inspection checklist that are related to Flight Operations.

Target audience:

Experienced SAFA inspectors who will inspect A-items (cockpit) of the SAFA Ramp Inspections checklist.

Participant perequisites:

The participants should be qualified SAFA inspectors who have attended the SAFA Initial Theoretical and Practical Training Course. 

Course elements:

  • Classroom presentation on the following Flight Operations subjects, with emphasis on practical samples, and using the SAFA (or Doc 8335) checklist as basis:
  • AOC and operator organization;
  • Flight Planning - OFP, weather, performance, navigation;
  • Operationally required instruments and equipment;
  • ATL and MEL;
  • Mass and balance / Load Control.
  • Workshop - role play exercises in a cockpit environment (flight simulator) in which a typical flight preparation setting is staged. Participants will be split in teams of two inspectors each who will interact with two pilots during 30 minutes.
  • Exercises - participants will complete personal exercises to improve their understanding of the subjects.

Duration:

2.5 days, of which 0.5 day workshop and exercises

Fee:

Flat fee: € 1850.00

Discounts available for participant three and up.

Venue:                                                                     

FSC facilities, located on Anthony Fokker Business Park at Schiphol. (http://www.fsctraining.com)

The training can be offered elsewhere, at fees to be agreed, either:

  • with workshop, when a flight simulator can be made available.; or
  • with workshop in a classroom environment; or
  • without workshop, in which case duration is 2 days.

Hotel accommodation:

Hotel accommodation at Dorint Schiphol-East (http://www.dorint.com/nl/hotel-amsterdam-schipol; close to the training venue) can be offered at a significant discount and free transport to training location.

Regulatory Standards:

  • ICAO SARPs as contained in Annex 6, Part 1 and related ICAO documents.
  • SAFA checklist or ICAO Doc 8335 checklist, as desired.
  • Comparison with EU and/or FAA standards can be included on request.