REQUIRED KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS

This describes the essential knowledge and skills and their level required for this unit

Required knowledge

Relevant sections of Civil Aviation Safety Regulations

International and national air law including facilitation of international flight

Relevant OHampS and environmental procedures and regulations

Principles of effective air traffic control

National operating standards recommendations and system safety relevant to air traffic management

National airspace system and standard route structure

Rules of the air governing visual and instrument flight

Principles of flight operation and functioning of aircraft powerplants systems and aircraft performance relevant to area control services

Meteorological documentation terms and definitions information and the origin and characteristics of weather phenomena affecting flight operations including local phenomena

Principles and procedures of altimetry

Principles limitations and accuracy of air navigation navigation systems and visual aids including terms and definitions and required navigation performance relevant to area control services

Basic time distance and speed navigation solutions track error closing angles drift and track made good

Traffic Collision and Avoidance Systems

Aeronautical documentation and safety practices associated with the planning and conduct of flight

Provision of air traffic services air traffic control flight information service and search and rescue alerting aeronautical information services air traffic flow management and airspace management including terms and definitions

Air traffic services and air traffic flow management communication phraseologies and procedures

Security against acts of unlawful interference

Air traffic management corporate aspiration mission service and culture

Aircraft type recognition and associated wake turbulence and performance categories

Air traffic priorities

Airspace service priorities and the safety imperative

Aeronautical charts and maps used in aviation

Organisational and licensing administration

Safety occurrence reporting and just culture in the air traffic management workplace

Jurisdiction and adjacent airspace characteristics

Standard route structures and associated procedures reporting lowest safe heights cruising levels and transfer of control points

Flexible tracking and userpreferred routing

Terrain and prominent landmarks affecting flight operations within en route airspace

Characteristics of en route sector air traffic patterns and traffic flows including hotspots congestion and location of aerodromes and runways within and adjacent to jurisdiction airspace

Goals and characteristics of military flight operations

Prioritisation of area control tasks to achieve the safety critical imperative

Recovering from compromised aircraft separation and unauthorised use of airspaces

Division of responsibilities for air traffic services and air traffic flow management between en route airspaces and other interfacing elements

Aircraft conflict recognition and resolution in en route airspaces

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

Area control separation standards and techniques and wake turbulence separation

Procedures for recording andor annotating operational information

Coordination of air traffic services and air traffic flow management information

Departure and approach to land procedures and transition from instrument flight to visual flight and terrain protection

Conditional air traffic clearance

Adjusting route track heading and speed of aircraft

Handovertakeover procedures and practices

Humanmachine Interface HMI states and associated interactions

Formation flight configurations separation and procedures and practices

Required skills

Communicate effectively with others when providing area control services

Actively listen when providing area control services

Perceive incoming information associated with strategic tactical geographic spatial system and environment components of a complex system

Comprehend incoming information and develop the current airspace and flight path model

Read and interpret instructions regulations procedures and other information relevant to area control services

Interpret and follow operational instructions and prioritise work

Complete documentation related to area control services

Operate electronic communication equipment to required protocol

Provide leadership and work collaboratively with others when providing area control services

Communicate in a team by exchanging information through assigning responsibility acknowledgment inquiring and by recognising and noting facts that create team rapport and enhance team outputs

Adapt appropriately to cultural differences in the workplace including modes of behaviour and interactions with others

Promptly report andor rectify any identified problems that may occur when providing area control services in accordance with regulatory requirements and workplace procedures

Make decisions when providing area control services

Implement decisions using knowledgebased rulebased and skillbased activities

Demonstrate an attitude to error management that limits unintentional deviation from work practices and maintains accuracy through application of disciplined procedures and practices and a methodical work ethic

Conduct aeronautical decision making

Maintain a strategic traffic management goal for the jurisdiction airspace

Implement contingency plans for unexpected events that may arise when providing area control services

Apply precautions and required action to minimise control or eliminate hazards that may exist when providing area control services

Monitor and anticipate operational problems and hazards and take appropriate action

Monitor work activities in terms of planned schedule

Anticipate and prepare for work tasks

Adhere to procedures through a series of steps followed in a regular definite order or a traditional or established way of doing things when this is required

Modify activities dependent on differing workplace contingencies situations and environments

Judge and form an opinion or evaluate situations by discerning and comparing information

React to some form of treatment or stressful situation by a considered and measured response in a timely fashion

Work systematically with required attention to detail without injury to self or others or damage to goods or equipment

Adapt to differences in equipment and operating environment in accordance with standard operating procedures

Be receptive to training for the skills knowledge or experiences acquired or gained over a career

Implement OHampS procedures and relevant regulations

Identify and correctly use equipment required to provide area control services

Separate aircraft using area control techniques and standards

Separate aircraft using wake turbulence standards

Assign separation to the pilot

Process military aircraft

Interpret charts maps and operational documentation associated with planning and conduct of flight

Facilitate inflight diversions andor changes of altitude and flight level

Maintain surveillance of en route airspaces

Scan the Humanmachine Interface HMI

Formulate airways clearance and control instruction

Adjust route and track of aircraft

Vary heading of aircraft

Vary speed of aircraft

Record and annotate flight information and messages

Use checklists

Maintain surveillance in degraded mode

Plan and prioritise tasks according to the safety imperative

Interpret and evaluate current traffic events

Project and predict future traffic scenarios

Execute control actions

Apply human reasoning to airspace and flight path scenarios

Allocate attention according to demand and constantly switch between managing the Humanmachine Interface or equipment use managing communications and managing traffic

The Evidence Guide provides advice on assessment and must be read in conjunction with the performance criteria required knowledge and skills the range statement and the assessment guidelines for this Training Package

Critical aspects for assessment and evidence required to demonstrate competency in this unit

The evidence required to demonstrate competency in this unit must be relevant to and satisfy all of the requirements of the elements and performance criteria of this unit and include demonstration of applying

the underpinning knowledge and skills

relevant legislation and workplace procedures

other relevant aspects of the range statement

Context of and specific resources for assessment

Performance is demonstrated consistently over a period of time and in a suitable range of contexts

Resources for assessment include

a range of relevant exercises case studies andor other simulated practical and knowledge assessment andor

access to an appropriate range of relevant operational situations in the workplace

In both real and simulated environments access is required to

relevant and appropriate materials and equipment and

applicable documentation including workplace procedures regulations codes of practice and operation manuals

Method of assessment

Assessment of this unit must be undertaken by a registered training organisation

As a minimum assessment of knowledge must be conducted through appropriate writtenoral tests

Practical assessment must occur

through activities in an appropriately simulated environment at the registered training organisation andor

in an appropriate range of situations in the workplace

Operations may be conducted

Performance may be demonstrated in:

Conflict of air traffic:

Recognising air traffic conflict might include:

System tools for recognising comprised separation may include:

Separation standards include:

Alternative methods of resolving conflicts might include:

Compromised separation might include:

Administrative actions might include:

Tactical separation assurance is defined as that which is achieved through:

Strategic separation assurance is defined as that which:

Dependent on the type of organisation concerned and the local terminology used, workplace procedures may include:

Information/documents may include:

Applicable regulations and legislation may include: