Air Traffic Safety Electronics Personnel
Air Traffic Safety Electronics Personnel (ATSEP)
Today, communications, navigational and surveillance systems are put in place and used throughout the world in order to ensure the safe performance of aircraft operations at all stages.
The most known duties of the ATSEPs are to ensure that both the systems (such as Radar and Communications Systems), which are used by the Air Traffic Controllers in respect of air navigational services, and the systems (VOR, DME, NDB, ILS, etc...), which directly provide Navigational Service to the Pilot operating the aircraft, render services on 24 hours basis.
An increase has occurred in respect of the safety measures in line with the regular increase occurred in air traffic volume around the world. Accordingly, the works in relation to the competence of the Air Traffic Safety Electronics Personnel (ATSEP) serving within the safety chain together with the air traffic controllers, pilots and aircraft maintenance personnel have been initiated in our country.
The document ESARR 5 (ATM Service Personnel), which has been published by the Eurocontrol, has been taken as the basis in respect of the works carried out, and the training, health and licensing criteria have been started to be implemented in respect of the concept of ATSEP for the first time through the Regulation, published on January 31, 2007.
The procedures and principles in relation to planning and operating the air traffic safety electronics service, and to ensuring the maintenance thereof, as well as in relation to determining the requirements required to have, and to granting the certificate, license and ratings are currently regulated by the Directorate General of Civil Aviation in our country.
First, assistant ATSEP license is granted to the personnel, who documents that s/he has satisfied the requirements prescribed under this Regulation, and who is included in the training schedule, upon the application performed by the relevant training organization or air navigational service provider, and then ATSEP license is granted to the same in the event that such personnel passes the exam to be performed by our Directorate General.
ATSEP initial and competence trainings are currently provided by the Directorate General of State Airports administration. Also, any other service providers and the Universities are entitled to provide training in accordance with the SHY-ATSEP regulation.
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Communications and Air Traffic Systems Directorate |
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| Address | Gazi Mustafa Kemal Bulvari No:128/A 06570 Maltepe/ANKARA |
| Contact Person | Ufuk EROL |
| Tel | (312) 203 60 20 |
| Fax | (312) 212 46 84 |
2014 ATSEP Exam Dates
2014 ATSEP Exam Schedule
June 03, 2014
August 05, 2014
September 02, 2014
November 04, 2014
December 02, 2014
For Further Information:
Air Navigational Department
Communications and Air Traffic Systems Directorate
Gazi Mustafa Kemal Bulvarı No: 128/A 06570
Maltepe / Ankara
Telephone: 0 312 203 60 20
Processes for Licensing
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The following requirements are sought for the applicants prior to granting of ATSEP license by our Directorate General;
- To have passed the ATSEP License Exam,
- To have documented that there is no situation to prevent her/him from carrying out her/his duty on continuous basis, through a medical board report to be obtained from general hospitals,
- To have hold an applicable Assistant ATSEP Certificate,
- To have successfully completed on-the-job-training and competence assessments to be carried out,
- To have satisfied one of the requirements for English proficiency, specified in Article 21 of SHY ATSEP Regulation.
In the event that the Assistant ATSEP intending to obtain license fails the first exam carried out, then the next license exam is carried out within a period of one year, at the latest, provided that s/he submits the application. The Assistant ATSEP, who has failed in three successive exams, is subjected to the competence training program again by the CNS/ATM technical service provider or the relevant training organization.
In the event that the personnel holding ATSEP license, who has failed the exam pertaining to the field for which her/his request has been accepted for obtaining new rating as a consequence of the competence training program that s/he has received, requests to take the exam again, then the next exam is carried out within a period of one year, at the latest. The personnel, who has failed in three successive exams, and who repeats her/his request in the filed of the same rating, is subjected to the competence program again by the CNS/ATM technical service provider or the authorized training organization.
The Assistant ATSEP, who has completed on-the-job training to be performed by the same for a period of two hundred fifty hours for each in the field or fields where s/he will obtain rating, obtain the first rating or ratings, which s/he has gained as a consequence of the ATSEP License Exam, together with the ATSEP license.
ATSEP license to be granted by the Directorate General is issued upon the application to be performed in person by the respective person, or by the relevant training organization or the CNS/ATM technical service provider.
The communications equipment/system rating refers to the rating, granted for the knowledge, skill and operational competence required in relation to the preventive, harmonizing and corrective maintenance performance in respect of the hardware and/or software on the communications systems connected with the air traffic safety. It is required to complete the 250-hour work at the relevant division in order for application for this rating.
The navigational equipment/system rating refers to the rating, granted for the knowledge, skill and operational competence required in relation to the preventive, harmonizing and corrective maintenance performance in respect of the hardware and/or software on the navigational systems connected with the air traffic safety. It is required to complete the 250-hour work at the relevant division in order for application for this rating.
The surveillance equipment/system rating refers to the rating, granted for the knowledge, skill and operational competence required in relation to the preventive, harmonizing and corrective maintenance performance in respect of the hardware and/or software on the earth- and satellite-based surveillance systems and radar data processing systems connected with the air traffic safety. It is required to complete the 250-hour work at the relevant division in order for application for this rating.