REQUIRED KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS |
This describes the essential knowledge and skills and their level required for this unit.
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Required knowledge:
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Relevant sections of Civil Aviation Safety Regulations
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Relevant OH&S and environmental procedures and regulations
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Principles of effective air traffic control
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Search and rescue organisations and infrastructures
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Jurisdictions related to the search and rescue of different aircraft operations
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SARTIME and SARWATCH criteria
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Emergency aviation phases and criteria and declaration
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Emergency services, IFER management process, IFER roles and responsibilities, IFER techniques, IFER resource management and intercept and escort
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Emergency communications
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Emergency checklists and documentation
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Emergency and abnormal HMI indications including alarms and alerts
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Emergency separation standards
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Aerodrome emergency plan (AEP)
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Types of in-flight emergencies including unlawful interference, general aircraft failures and problems, landing, pilot incapacitation, military emergencies, uncertain of position, VFR emergencies, emergencies declared by data link
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Fuel jettison during emergency and practice including ATS response for practice jettison
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Required skills:
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Communicate effectively with others when providing SAR alerting and emergency service
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Actively listen
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Declare emergency phases
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Communicate clearly and concisely using standard and non-standard phrases to emergency aircraft
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Use overt and covert emergency messages, phrases and signals
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Use management communication with emergency traffic and other aircraft
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Perceive incoming information associated with strategic, tactical, geographic, spatial, system and environment components of a complex system
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Comprehend incoming information and develop the current airspace and flight path model
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Read and interpret instructions, regulations, procedures and other information relevant to the provision of SAR alerting and emergency service
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Interpret and follow operational instructions and prioritise work
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Coordinate emergency and/or abnormal related information
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Use checklists and other documentation
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Provide navigational and traffic information to the pilot during emergencies and unusual situations
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Complete documentation related to the provision of SAR alerting and emergency service including the recording of emergency and/or abnormal flight related information
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Operate electronic communication equipment to required protocol
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Provide leadership and work collaboratively with others when providing SAR alerting and emergency service
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Communicate in a team by exchanging information through assigning responsibility, acknowledgment, inquiring, and by recognising and noting facts that create team rapport and enhance team outputs
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Adapt appropriately to cultural differences in the workplace, including modes of behaviour and interactions with others
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Promptly report and/or rectify any identified problems that may occur when providing SAR alerting and emergency service in accordance with regulatory requirements and workplace procedures
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Judge and form an opinion or evaluate situations by discerning and comparing information
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Make decisions relevant to the provision of SAR alerting and emergency service
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Conduct aeronautical decision making
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Implement decisions using knowledge-based, rule-based and skill-based activities
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Demonstrate temperament reflecting a calm, composed and cooperative characteristic and emotional response under challenging situations
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React to some form of treatment or stressful situation by a considered and measured response in a timely fashion
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Implement contingency plans for unexpected events that may arise when providing SAR alerting and emergency service
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Maintain air traffic services to other traffic during emergencies and unusual flights
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Anticipate and prepare for work tasks
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Project and develop future airspace and flight path scenarios
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Maintain a strategic traffic management goal for the jurisdiction airspace
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Initiate emergency actions
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Monitor critical search and rescue event times
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Provide priority service to emergency aircraft
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Apply emergency separation and restore normal separation
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Apply precautions and required action to minimise, control or eliminate hazards that may exist when providing SAR alerting and emergency service
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Demonstrate an attitude to error management that limits unintentional deviation from work practices and maintains accuracy through application of disciplined procedures and practices and a methodical work ethic
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Monitor and anticipate operational problems and hazards and take appropriate action
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Regulate workload in emergency situations
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Adhere to procedures through a series of steps followed in a regular definite order or a traditional or established way of doing things when this is required
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Modify activities dependent on differing workplace contingencies, situations and environments
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Work systematically with required attention to detail without injury to self or others, or damage to aircraft or equipment
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Adapt to differences in aircraft, equipment and operating environment in accordance with standard operating procedures
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Be receptive to training for the skills, knowledge, or experiences acquired or gained over a career
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Implement OH&S procedures and relevant regulations
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Identify and correctly use equipment required when providing SAR alerting and emergency service
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Apply human reasoning to airspace and flight path scenarios
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Allocate attention according to demand and to constantly switch between: managing the Human-machine Interface (HMI) or equipment use; managing communications; and managing traffic
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