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Elements and Performance Criteria

1. Assure separation
   • Conflicts are recognised and resolved
   • Separation is provided
   • Jurisdiction for maintaining aircraft separation is agreed and assigned
   • Alternative separation is provided as required
   • Separation is adjusted when systems are degraded or airways facilities are reduced
   • Most appropriate separation is provided taking into account safety, expedition and the method of control and surveillance
   • Compromised separation is recognised and addressed
2. Manage enroute airspaces
   • Traffic priorities are applied in accordance with standard operating procedures (SOPs)
3. Service priorities are applied in accordance with that which is most safety critical
4. Control practices and techniques are adapted to changing airspace environment factors
5. Hazards are identified, risks are assessed, and risk controls are implemented
6. Systematic scan technique of airspaces and air routes is maintained
7. Standard routing is facilitated
8. Preferred routing is facilitated
9. Documented instructions and agreements applicable to jurisdictional area are applied
10. Non-compliance with control instructions and procedures is recognised and addressed
11. Terrain and obstacle clearance is provided
12. Pilot requested altitudes and flight levels are facilitated
13. Aircraft are authorised to use enroute airspaces
14. Control services are provided in accordance with airspace classification and status
15. Airspaces are administered in accordance with user activity
16. Flight diversions or deviations are facilitated
    • Conflicts are recognised and resolved
17. Separation is provided
18. Jurisdiction for maintaining aircraft separation is agreed and assigned
19. Alternative separation is provided as required
20. Separation is adjusted when systems are degraded, or airways facilities are reduced
21. Most appropriate separation is provided taking into account safety, expedition and the method of control and surveillance
22. Compromised separation is recognised and addressed

Range Statement

Range is restricted to essential operating conditions and any other variables essential to the work environment.

Non-essential conditions can be found in the Companion Volume Implementation Guide.

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Performance Evidence

Evidence required to demonstrate competence in this unit must be relevant to and satisfy all of the requirements of the elements and performance criteria on at least one occasion and include:

adapting appropriately to cultural differences in the workplace, including modes of behaviour and interactions with others adhering to procedures through a series of steps followed in a regular definite order or as required, a traditional or established way of doing things adjusting route and track of aircraft allocating attention in accordance with priorities anticipating and preparing for work tasks applying an error management attitude that limits unintentional deviation from work practices and maintains accuracy through a disciplined approach to implementing procedures and practices, and a methodical work ethic applying human reasoning to airspace and flight path scenarios applying precautions and required action to minimise, control or eliminate identified hazards communicating effectively with others completing relevant documentation coordinating air traffics services effectively executing control actions facilitating in-flight deviations, diversions and changes of altitude and flight level formulating airways clearance and control instruction implementing contingency plans implementing decisions using knowledge-based, rule-based and skill-based activities implementing work health and safety (WHS)/occupational health and safety (OHS) procedures and relevant regulations interpreting and evaluating current traffic events interpreting and following operational instructions and prioritising work interpreting charts and operational documentation associated with air traffic services maintaining a strategic traffic management plan for the airspace jurisdiction maintaining surveillance of enroute airspaces maintaining speed control operating equipment in accordance with standard operating procedures perceiving and comprehending incoming information processing military aircraft projecting and predicting future traffic scenarios reporting and rectifying identified problems promptly recording and annotating flight information and messages responding to stressful situations with a considered and measured approach scanning the human machine interface (HMI) separating aircraft using area control techniques and standards separating aircraft using wake turbulence standards vectoring aircraft working collaboratively with others working systematically with attention to detail.

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Knowledge Evidence

Evidence required to demonstrate competence in this unit must be relevant to and satisfy all of the requirements of the elements and performance criteria and include knowledge of:

air navigation systems and visual aids

air traffic priorities

air traffic services

airborne collision and avoidance systems

aircraft performance characteristics

aircraft type associated wake turbulence and performance categories

airspace service priorities and the safety imperative

area control separation standards and techniques

characteristics of enroute sector air traffic patterns and traffic flows including critical positions/hot-spots

charts and operational documentation

communication phraseologies and procedures

compromised separation and non-compliant use of airspaces

coordination requirements

departure and approach to land procedures

division of responsibilities for air traffic services

formation flight configurations, separation and procedures and practices

handover/takeover procedures and practices

how to interpret charts and operational documentation associated with air traffic services

human machine interface (HMI) states and associated interactions

jurisdiction and adjacent airspace characteristics

meteorological documentation, terms and definitions

military flight operations

national airspace system and standard route structure

navigation principles and terminology

heading

route

track

organisational and licensing administration

preferred routing

principles and procedures of altimetry

principles of flight

procedures for recording and annotating operational information

provision of air traffic services and air traffic flow management during system degradation including facility failures and restoration of system components

rules of the air governing visual and instrument flight

safety occurrence reporting

standard routing

terrain and prominent landmarks affecting flight operations within enroute airspace

terrain protection

transfer of control points

transition from instrument flight to visual flight conditions

weather phenomena affecting flight operations.

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