1. Civil Aviation Authority of the Republic of Poland
Update on the national implementation practices
Saint Petersburg 2011

2. Current issues related to Language Proficiency Requirements
All ATCO’s and Pilots tested
• License endorsement process completed by end of May 2011
• Examiner and rater re-acreditation process completed
• National Administrators re-acreditaion process completed
• Separation of initial and recurrent testing initiative
• Amendments of National Regulations concerning Licensing in progress

3. ICAO LPR compliance after March 5, 2011
ATCO’s – ELPAC test
• All ATCO’s tested
• 94% received Level 4 or 5
• Remaining – do not work as ATCO’s
PILOTS – RELTA test / foreign tests
• All pilots involved in international operations tested
• 96% recived Level 4, 5 or 6
• Remaining – do not operate internationally

4. ICAO LPR compliance after March 5, 2011
Number of exams – above 200
Number of license endorsements – above 400 (including tests taken outside Poland)
since January 2011 until end of March 2011

5. End-users perspective
ATCO’s – ELPAC test
• No complaints (keyboard issue)
PILOTS – RELTA test
• Too difficult
– another option (commercial test adopted in Poland)
• Test scenarios vs. real life situations

6. Co-operation of States
LP tests taken outside Poland
Co-operation of CAA’s to ensure validity of LP test certificates
Poland is currently co-operating with a number of foreign Civil Aviation Authorities to ensure ICAO LPR compliance:
Belgium, Czech Republic, Germany, Lithuania, Romania, Slovak Republic, Ukraine, United Kingdom, United States, Vietnam. – Thank you for your support and proffessionalism!

7. Difficulties Acceptance of non EU endorsements
„Level 4 is Level 4” – quality / equality of different LP tests
Inconsistent legal regulations
Discontent of aviation industry

8. Thank you for your attention!