ICAO 9906 VOLUME 6 PDF

GENERAL

The State is responsible for the safety of all instrument flight procedures (IFPs) in its airspace. Safety is achieved by the application of the criteria in the Procedures for Air Navigation Services — Aircraft Operations (PANS-OPS, Doc 8168) and associated ICAO provisions. Measures are required to control the quality of the process used to apply the criteria.

PANS-OPS, Volume II, Part I, Section 2, Chapter 4, Quality Assurance, provides procedures with which each State must comply with for quality assurance in flight procedure design. Guidance material for quality assurance supplementing the provisions in PANS-OPS is provided in each volume of this document.

Training is one of the most important elements of quality assurance. Each State should establish standards for the required competency level for flight validation pilot (FVPs). Each State should also ensure that flight validation pilots acquire and maintain this competency level through initial, recurrent/refresher and on-the-job (OJT) training.

This manual is a guideline for States and other stakeholders who are to meet these requirements.