AMC & GM to Part-SPA — Issue 1, Amendment 8

Annex VI to ED Decision 2019/019/R

Annex VI to ED Decision 2019/019/R ‘AMC and GM to Part-SPA — Issue 1, Amendment 8’ The Annex to Decision 2012/019/Directorate R of 24 October 2012 is hereby amended as follows: The text of the amendment is arranged to show deleted, new or amended text as shown below: — deleted text is is marked with strike through; — new or amended text is highlighted in blue; — an ellipsis ‘(…)’ indicates that the rest of the text is unchanged. GM1 SPA.GEN.100(a) Competent authority DETERMINING THE PLACE WHERE AN OPERATOR IS RESIDING For the purpose of Regulation (EU) No 965/2012, the concept of ‘place where the operator is residing’ is mainly addressed to a natural person. The place where the operator resides is the place where the operator complies with his or her tax obligations. Several criteria can be used to help determining a person’s place of residence. These include, for example: (a) the duration of a person’s presence on the territory of the countries concerned; (b) the person’s family status and ties; (c) the person’s housing situation and how permanent it is; (d) the place where the person pursues professional or non-profit activities; (e) the characteristics of the person’s professional activity; and (f) the Member State where the person resides for taxation purposes. GM12 SPA.NVIS.130(e) Crew requirements for NVIS operations OPERATIONAL APPROVAL (…)

Annex VI to ED Decision 2019/019/R

AMC10 SPA.EFB.100(b)(3) Use of electronic flight bags (EFBs) — Operational approval APPLICATIONS DISPLAYING OWN-SHIP POSITION IN FLIGHT (…) (b) Position source and accuracy The display of own-ship position may be based on a certified GNSS or GNSS-based (e.g. GPS/IRS) position from certified aircraft equipment or on a portable COTS position source in accordance with AMC7 SPA.EFB.100(b)(3). The own-ship symbol should be removed and the flight crew notified if: (1) the estimated accuracy exceeds 50 meters the position source indicates a degraded accuracy. The threshold to consider that the accuracy is degraded should be commensurate with the navigation performance required for the current phase of flight and should not exceed 200 m when the own-ship is displayed above a terminal chart (i.e. SID, STAR, or instrument approach) or a depiction of a terminal procedure; (2) the position data is reported as invalid by the GNSS receiver; or (3) the position data is not received for 5 seconds. (…)