Minimum cockpit occupancy: changed in July 2016

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Minimum cockpit occupancy: changed in July 2016

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Minimum Cockpit Occupancy: EASA issues revised Safety Information Bulletin (*)

The EASA Safety Information Bulletin (SIB) on Minimum Cockpit Occupancy has been revised in order to take into account operational experience after the “2-persons-in-the-cockpit” recommendation was issued in March 2015. The revised SIB (SIB 2016-09) is based on extensive consultation with all affected stakeholders; it takes a more flexible risk-based approach.

The SIB recommends that first a risk assessment is performed and then, based on the results of the assessment, the operator may decide to maintain the “2-persons-in-the-cockpit” procedure as one possible mitigating measure. The SIB provides guidance to operators on the elements to be considered in performing the relevant risk assessment. These elements include the psychological and security screening of flight crew, employment stability and turnover rate, access to support programmes, and ability of the operator’s management system to mitigate psychological and social risks.

Press release EASA:
https://www.easa.europa.eu/newsroom-and ... n-bulletin

Safety Information Bulletin SIB-2016-09 - file page:
http://ad.easa.europa.eu/ad/2016-09

Safety Information Bulletion SIB-2016-09 - full details and new conditions:
http://ad.easa.europa.eu/blob/EASA_SIB_ ... _2016-09_1

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(*)Very soon after the Germanwings crash, EASA issued a Safety Information Bulletin (SIB) on a minimum cockpit occupancy of two people. This SIB has been revised by a new Safety Information Bulletin on 26th July 2016. The presence of two people in the cockpit is no longer required when airlines comply to certain new rules. That new S.I.B. hasn't been published here yet, hence this post.

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