Subject: Flight Crew Training

Approved: October 30, 1985

Revised: May 6, 1999

I. Need for Policy

IBAC's affiliates, and business aviation in general, have a commendable safety record and operate to a high professional standard. These facts are vital in negotiating with regulatory authorities. Business aviation has earned the respect of safety-standards authorities and has, upon occasions, prevented the imposition of inhibiting and unnecessary legislation. High professional standards of operation, that have provided a first-class safety record, are also a powerful argument for favorable insurance rates.

The need to maintain a high professional operational standard is clearly in the interests of both safety and cost control.

II. Policy

With the safety of its affiliates' flight operations, and the system as a whole, paramount, IBAC supports and promotes the highest possible levels of flight crew training. This extends from initial qualification to recurrent training for all those involved in business aviation flight operations.

III. Position

To ensure that the existing high standard is maintained, the minimum flight crew qualification for pilots employed to operate IBAC affiliates’ aircraft should be an ICAO Annex 1 standard, Commercial Pilot License with a current Instrument Rating. Consideration should be given to holding an ATR (ATPL) when flying with passengers as pilot-in-command of an aircraft of a weight that would, if operated in Public Transport, require such a license.

As business aviation responds to changes in the world-wide market, flexibility in operations is paramount. Therefore, efforts should be made to harmonize flight crew licensing regulations so that a pilot with a license issued in one State can be assigned to fly an aircraft registered in another.

Source of Policy: (1) Original, Governing Board, London, October 29-30, 1985

(2) Revised, Governing Board, Montreal, May 6, 1999