Personnel Licensing & Aircraft Registry

What is Aviation Personnel Licensing ?

The need to have proper authorization to carry out certain functions in the aviation industry has always been a requirement. This authorization is normally issued in the form of a “Licence”. The granting of a licence is the legal instrument used by a Licensing Authority to confer to an individual or organization the legal responsible to perform specific activities that are otherwise prohibited either by Law or by custom; and which, unless performed properly, may endanger life and property.

A licence is evidence that the issuing State is satisfied that the individual or organization has demonstrated an internationally acceptable degree of competency after successfully completing an approved standard of training. The process of licensing consist of the granting of privileges to the applicant who meets the prescribe standard.

Depending on the type of licence issued, the licence may or may not have a time limitation imposed and may or may not have limitations with respect to function performed. The licence may have certain conditions to be observed prior to the exercising of certain function or privileges. Such conditions if they exist, can be termed “the obligations of the licence holder”. Such obligations are detailed in the State’s/ country’s Laws and Regulations.

The validity of a Licence is the length of time that a licence holder can legally exercise the privileges of his/ her licence and this time limit is usually prescribed by the issuing State/ country.

Approved Aviation Courses conducted in Barbados

There are :

The Approved Air-Traffic Controllers Course which is conducted at the Air-Traffic Control School; and

The Private Pilot’s flight Course facilitated by the Flight Training Institute (Barbados) Inc.

The contact details for the Flight Training Institute (Barbados) Inc.:

Address
South Ramp
Grantley Adams International Airport
Christ Church
Barbados
Tel: +1(246) 538-3446
Email: info@ftibarbados.com
Website: ftibarbados.com

All other flight crew and engineering licensing will be granted based on the approval of a foreign course.

The approval of foreign courses and aviation training facilities:

All aviation training courses conducted for the licensing of aviation personnel must be accepted and approved by the state or country issuing the aviation licence. For example: the United States of America, Federal Aviation Authority (FAA) in its Federal Aviation Regulations (FARs) documents, sets out training standards that must be met by all approved aviation training courses as well as all approved aviation training facilities facilitating this training.

Acceptance of a foreign licence:

The approval of an applicant with a foreign licence and/or rating will be conducted by the Barbados CAA PEL office in two phases:

• Phase 1 will see an assessment of the applicant’s foreign licence application on the bases of the training standards provided by the foreign country’s Licensing Authority. Please note that the training standards of the foreign Licensing Authority must meet or exceed the local aviation training standards for the applicant’s licence application to be successful.
• Phase 2 will seek to have the applicant successfully complete the Barbados Air Law examination as well as an aviation medical examination conducted by a Barbados Approved Aviation Medical Examiner.

Essential functions of the Barbados Civil Aviation PEL Office

The essential functions of the Barbados Civil Aviation PEL Office are as follows:

1. The assessment and approval of applications for licences and ratings;
2. The application of medical fitness assessment relating to licence requirements;
3. The issue of licences and ratings;
4. The validation of foreign licences;
5. The setting and marking of written examinations; and
6. The promulgation of a scale of Licensing fees for the procurement of a licence, ratings and certificates.
7. The drafting and amendment of rules relating to the training and licensing of aviation personnel;
8. The approval of organizations and persons for specific task related to training and testing. For example: The Designated Flight Test Examiners and the Approved Flight Instructor;
9. The assessment of the qualifications of foreign civilian and military trained personnel in order to determine examination and flight test exemptions; and
10. The enforcement of licensing Laws and regulations.