Division 1 DESCRIPTION OF THE REQUEST

Provision FCL.905.SFI Annex I to Regulation (EU) No 1178/2011 establishes the privileges of the Synthetic Flight Instructor (SFI) and does not allow the SFI to provide instruction to applicants for the SFI certificate. Part-FCL gives the privilege to provide this instruction only to holders of a Type Rating Instructor (TRI) certificate, provided that they have at least 3 years of experience as TRI (FCL905.TRI(b)).

By letter of 27 November 2012, the Government of the United Kingdom (UK) notified the Commission and EASA of their intention to derogate from this provision of Regulation (EU) No 1178/2011 (the Aircrew Regulation), on the basis of Article 14(6) of Regulation (EC) No 216/2008.

The UK proposed to grant holders of an SFI certificate the privilege to provide instruction for applicants for an SFI certificate without meeting the requirement to have at least 3 years of experience as TRI.