1.2.4 ATSEP training concept
In order to cover the various backgrounds of trainees and to ensure training standardization worldwide, it is
recommended that training be divided into multiple levels as follows:
Basic training: Fundamental knowledge and skills appropriate to the discipline to be pursued in the CNS/ATM
environment.
Qualification training: Job-category-related knowledge and skills appropriate to the discipline to be pursued in the
CNS/ATM environment. Various applications have been identified that apply to the five corresponding discipline
qualifications of communication, navigation, surveillance, data processing and power supply.
System and equipment rating training (also referred to as “Specific training”): System and equipment knowledge and
skills leading to recognized competency.
It also includes on-the-job training (OJT), which is the practical integration of previously acquired knowledge and skills,
under the supervision of a qualified on-the-job-training instructor (OJTI), in an operational environment.
Continuation training: Training given to personnel, designed to augment existing knowledge and skills and/or to prepare
for new technologies. It includes refresher, emergency and conversion training. Refresher and emergency training are
sometimes called “recurrent training”.
Refresher training. Designed to review, reinforce or upgrade existing knowledge and skills, including
team skills.
Emergency training. Includes training in emergencies, in unusual situations and in degraded systems.
Most of this training will be site specific or may make use of incident or accident analysis.
Unusual situations may be described as:
1) serious, unexpected, and often dangerous situations, requiring immediate action;
2) a set of circumstances which are neither habitually nor commonly experienced. The essential
difference with an emergency is that the element of danger or serious risk is not necessarily
present in an unusual situation;
3) the result of a system failure or malfunction.
Conversion training. Designed to provide knowledge and skills appropriate to a change in either job
category (new discipline or new type rating), environment (new procedures) or system (system
upgrade or change).
Developmental training: Training designed to provide additional knowledge and skills demanded by a change in the job
profile, e.g., flight check inspector, system monitoring and control, training instructor, installation or engineering
technologist, or any other career development.