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News &

Notes

IFALPA MEETINGS & EVENTS

The Human Performance (HUPER) Committee met in Tokyo, Japan at the invitation of the
Airline Pilots’ Association of Japan (ALPA-Japan). Forty-three members from fifteen countries
attended as well as four representatives from observing organizations. As always, the meeting
was divided into three focus areas: Medical, Human Factors, and Training and Licensing.

Key topics for the medical area include fatigue, cabin air quality, and mental wellbeing. The
HUPER Committee had been tasked to develop a course for pilot participants on Fatigue
Safety Action Groups, a working group of fatigue experts was created to lead the work. IFALPA
continues to represent pilots at cabin air quality conferences to ensure that the concern in
our community is understood. The medical group also completed a scientific update of the
medical briefing leaflets. All of these updated publications can be found in the Pilot Health
Publications section of our website.

The Human Factors area focused on Pilot Assistance as a key topic as well as changes necessary
for the NOTAM system. The Pilot Assistance Working Group agreed to review what was being
done and propose new initiatives for the next year. On NOTAMs, the pilot perspective was
being provided to the ICAO Information Management Panel who had been tasked to review
and improve the system.

Competency-based Training and Assessment (CBTA) was the focus of the Training and
Licensing area. ICAO had proposed new provisions and new guidance material on CBTA and
IFALPA was working to propose improvements and increase worldwide understanding of the
CBTA concepts. In addition to CBTA, the Committee completed work on a Position Paper on
Command Training.

Elections for the positions of Vice-Chairs were conducted with the following results: Vice-Chair
Human Factors Captain Jean- Benoît Toulouse, Vice-Chair Medical Captain Dr. Antti Tuori,
Vice-Chair Licensing and Training Captain Glen Finch.

The next Working Group meeting will be held in Washington, DC, USA in April 2020 and the
full meeting in Mexico City, Mexico in November 2020. Meeting information will be available
on the IFALPA Hub as it becomes available.