Question

ICAO is the worldwide organization leading civil aviation standards and recommended practices to ensure uniformity throughout the globe. In a two page summary, discuss one of the 18 annexes. Include the following:

1. The purpose of the Annex
2. How is it enforced by ICAO
3. Does ICAO enforce the standards and recommended practices contained within?
4. What are the penalties, if any, for non-compliance?

Answer 1

Answer -) Annexure 1 - Personal Licensing

This annex says that the skills, training , qualifications of personnel is very important and that they remain the necessary guidelines for an airline to work. Licensing and traning gives the people the required benchmark that they are suited for the role and this helps instill trust and confidence between states , which leads to international recognition of the personnel and also the travellers feel more safe while fliying with licensed Employees.

The purpose of this annex is to provide standards and recommended practices for the licensing of flight crew members (pilots , air hostess, ), flight engineers, air traffic controllers etc are provided by annex 1 to convention on International civil association. It is enforced by ICAO through many programme such as Atlantic immigration pilot program, Security screening test, air hostess training standards etc all the various standard benchmarks that provide the necessary skills and license for the Employees to perform.

One of the main task of ICAO is to foster The resolution of differences in licensing requirements and to ensure the international Licensing standards are kept in line with current practices. Any airlines found employing under qualified and not licensed personnel could have their registration cancelled and also can have to pay millions of dollars for attempting to keep the lives of passengers in danger