CCAR142

Each applicant intend to be a certificate holder of CCAR-142 should consult the flight training center certification phases and requirements to the Regional Administration Flight Standards Office where the flight training center located or the designated local safety supervision office; obtain the CCAR-142 regulation documentation and other corresponding regulations, advisory circular information etc, become familiar with main contents of CCAR-142 regulation, and ensure the proposed training center meets the requirements of certification.

Submit a pre-application letter and attachments including the following information to the Regional Administration Flight Standards Office where the flight training center located or the designated local safety supervision office while completion of the preparation:
(a) Pre-application letter (sample)
(b) Basic information:
(1) Business name, mailing address, and telephone number of the applicant;
(2) Proposed starting date of operation;
(3) Proposed management personnel by name and title;
(4) Proposed training courses;
(5) Proposed equipment used in flight training;
(6) Proposed location of the flight training center, including the flight training center branch, document and training recordkeeping;
(7) Proposed schedule of events of the certification process;
(8) Additional information that provides a better understanding of the proposed business.

After receiving the above application documents from the applicant, the Regional Administration Flight Standards Office or designated local safety supervision office should arrange a pre-application meeting with attendance of the applicant. By discussion, the Administration may determine the applicant’s level of understanding of the CCAR-142 and corresponding regulations, determine whether the applicant have the potential ability of CCAR-142 applicant, and the application intention is clear, then the Administration may proceed to the next certification phase.

In the beginning of the formal application phase, CCAR-142 applicant should submit a formal application letter and attachments to the CAAC Regional Administration or local safety supervision office designated by Regional Administration fulfilled with the following information:
(a) Formal application letter
(b) Contents of formal application attachments:
(1) Business name, mailing address, and telephone number;
(2) Proposed starting date of operation;
(3) Management personnel and qualifications, and a statement will be included that if any change made in the management personnel, the applicant shall notify the Administration within 10 days of the change.
(4) The proposed training curriculum corresponding to CCAR-61, 91, 121 or 135;
(5) Proposed evaluators list and the evaluators’ qualification list;
(6) Actual aircraft flight training (if any);
(7) Applicant’s flight training equipments, facilities, qualifications of personnel to be used, and the description of the equipments evaluation plan;
(8) The copy of flight training center training program and curricula, including the syllabus, core curriculum and specialty curriculum;
(9) The description of the training, qualification and certification and test recordkeeping system of the students, instructors and evaluators;
(10) The description of the training quality control procedure and method.

If deficiencies exist in the process of the application and certification of the applicant, the application or issuance of the certificate may be denied. If the issuance of the certificate is denied, the training center PI will state the reasons for certificate denial. The PI will make such denial in writing and will describe corrective actions that may lead to obtain the certificate.

The applicant should understand the requirement of developing the operations specification and the meaning of each approval from the Administration PI in the previous phases, completed by the applicant after completion of the validation and inspection, and submit the application to the training center PI. The training center PI will sign to approve upon fully coordinating with the air carrier PI and the applicant.
The sample operations section refers to appendix B.

CAAC Regional Administration or designated safety supervision office should notify the applicant in writing whether the application has been accepted or not within 5 days after receiving the formal application letter and attachments. If the applicant is unable to submit complete material as required or the material submitted does not meet the requirement, and the application material is required to be supplemented by the applicant, the CAAC Regional Administration or safety supervision office should notify the applicant all the contents required to be supplemented in one time within 5 working days.

After the CAAC Regional Administration Flight Standards Office or designated supervision office accept the formal application, should notify the applicant, except for the time of inspecting the flight training equipment, the certification process will be completed in 20 working days. The PI should organize the human resources in time, and proceed with the compliance inspection with the following documents submitted by the applicant:
1. Management personnel
2. Flight training center evaluator
3. Instructor
4. Aircraft
5. Flight training equipment
6. Training program
7. Minimum equipment list (if applicable) and flight simulator component
8. Leasing contracts or agreements
9. Training contracts
10. Deviations and Waivers

Before inspection and certification, the training center’s training program and parts of curriculum should already obtain the temporary approval, instructor and evaluator have been certified, the flight training equipments used are able to meet the requirement of CCAR-142 training.
1. Inspect flight training equipment
2. Inspect aircraft
3. Validate instruction training

After phase 4, inspection and validation, the training center PI should coordinate with the corresponding air carrier PI (if applicable), make an evaluation agreement on the training center regulation compliance, and submit this evaluation agreement to the Regional Administration Flight Standards Office and the principal manager of the Regional Administration, make the decision of whether to issue the certificate or not, at the same time, apply for the certificate number of CCAR-142 training center to the Flight Standards Department, the two character code of pinyin represent each Administration, for example, HD represents East China Regional Administration, HB represents North China Regional Administration etc.

After the previous 4 phases, the training center PI, in accordance with the certification circumstance of the application and inspection of the applicant, fill out the CAAC developed standard format of CCAR-142 certificate of the initial, transition, upgrade and differential curriculums on the approved type of aircraft that does not exceed the operations specification part B, and the rating training and evaluation, ground training, simulator or aircraft training, evaluation of airline transport pilot license in accordance with CCAR-61 and other special training subjects.

After completion of all previous work, the training center PI confirms the date of issuance of the operation certificate and operations certification, and put on the records on the following content included in the operations specification to the Flight Standards Department.
(a) Business name of the certificate holder;
(b) Address;
(c) Certificate number and the issuing date;
(d) Approved training subjects;
(e) Additional training limitations;
(f) Name of the personnel in charge of the training center;