Transcript 5 Feb (TECO)/100131_TECO_AMP

Aeronautical Meteorological
Personnel (AMP) Standards
Ian Lisk, Met Office WMO Manager
Chair WMO CAeM ET/ET
Chair WMO EC Panel TT-AFQ
CAeM-XIV TECO, Hong Kong China
January 2010
Audit Trail
 ICAO Annex 3, Standards and Recommended
Practices for Meteorological Service to International
Air Navigation (2007) - refers to
 WMO No. 49, Technical Regulations (2007) – refers
to
 WMO No. 258, Guidelines for the Education and
Training of Personnel in Meteorology and Operational
Hydrology – Fourth Edition (2002) – refers to
 Supplement No. 1 to WMO No. 258, Guidelines for
training and qualification requirements for
aeronautical meteorological personnel (2006)
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WMO No. 49
Vol. II [C.3.1.] 2.1.5 states
“Each Member shall ensure that the designated
Meteorological Authority complies with the
requirements of the World Meteorological
Organization in respect of qualifications and
training of meteorological personnel providing
service for international air navigation”
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WMO No. 258 Role Descriptions
Section 1.3:
WMO Meteorologists – ‘… include operational
day-to-day work such as weather analysis and
forecasting ...’
WMO Technicians - ‘… include carrying out
weather, climate and environmental
observations, assisting weather forecasters in
the preparation and dissemination of analyses,
forecasts, weather warnings, ...’
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WMO No. 258 Personnel Classification
Meteorologist: a person who holds a
university-level degree or equivalent; has
acquired an appropriate level of knowledge of
mathematics, physics, chemistry and computer
science, and has completed the Basic
Instruction Package for Meteorologists (BIP-M)
Meteorological Technician: a person who has
completed the Basic Instruction Package for
Meteorological Technicians (BIP-MT)
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Supplement No. 1 to WMO No. 258
Aeronautical MET Forecasters should be
either:
WMO Meteorologists or,
Experienced WMO Class II forecasters
QUALIFIED BEFORE January 2005
QMS implementation changes the ‘should’ to
a ‘shall’
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EC Panel of Experts on Education and Training
TT-AFQ
EC-LX (2008) asked the TT-AFQ to…
 …provide clarification of the meaning of
relevant items of text contained in WMO
Publication No. 258 and its Supplement 1,
including the term ‘or equivalent’
 …bring back recommendations to EC-LXI
(2009)
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WMO EC-LXI (2009) Resolution 4.2/2
Aeronautical MET Forecaster (AMF) and
Observer (AMO) Competence Standards to be
included in Annex to WMO-No.49 – enforceable
from late 2013
‘Meteorologist’ Standard to be included in
Annex to WMO-No.49 – enforceable from late
2016
WMO Congress XVI (2011) to be requested to
endorse a revised definition of WMO
Meteorologist (to include non-degree ‘pathway’)
WMO-No.258 to be revised and updated in
2010/11.
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EC-LXI draft ‘WMO Meteorologist’
definition
A person who holds a university-level degree or
equivalent level of professional qualifications
Has acquired an appropriate level of knowledge
of mathematics, physics, chemistry and
computer science
Has completed the Basic Instruction Package for
Meteorologists (BIP-M)
The level of requisite academic qualifications
shall be defined at the national level by WMO
PRs in consultation with the appropriate
governing bodies.
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AMP Job Competences
WMO No. 258 defines job-competency as: an
ensemble of related knowledge, understanding
and skills, as well as positive work attitudes,
required for the efficient execution of a given
job
What competences does an AMF need?
What competences does an AMO need?
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An AMF should be a WMO Meteorologist1 and shall,
for the area and airspace of responsibility,
A. in consideration of the impact of meteorological
phenomena and parameters on aviation operations, and
B. in compliance with aviation user requirements,
international regulations, local procedures and priorities,
be able to:
1. Analyse and monitor continuously the weather
situation;
2. Forecast aeronautical meteorological phenomena and
parameters;
3. Warn of hazardous phenomena;
4. Manage the quality of meteorological information and
services; and
5. Communicate meteorological information to internal
and external users.
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An AMO shall,
for the area and airspace of responsibility,
A. in consideration of the impact of meteorological
phenomena and parameters on aviation operations,
and
B. in compliance with aviation user requirements,
international regulations, local procedures and
priorities,
be able to:
1. Monitor continuously the weather situation;
2. Observe and record aeronautical meteorological
phenomena and parameters;
3. Manage the quality of meteorological information and
performance of systems; and
4. Communicate meteorological information to internal
and external users.
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Proposed WMO (CAeM/ETR) Assistance 1

Requirement for ‘secondary level’ performance
criteria and knowledge requirement descriptions to
enable mapping of national practice to top level
competence Standards;

Secondary level performance criteria and
knowledge requirements included in the
development of a ‘compliance kit’;

Case studies of existing best practice from around
the world;

Assessment personnel and who assesses the
assessors!?
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Proposed WMO (CAeM/ETR) Assistance 2

RTC role;

Further curriculum development workshops for
setting and assessing competencies for AMP;

Regional workshops;

Pool of experts to assist, where required, Members
with the implementation of competency Standards
and assessment (similar to the concept of Roving
Seminars);

Development of on-line resources.
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Thank you
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