EAA, NAFI ASK TSA TO EASE RECURRENT SECURITY AWARENESS TRAINING HURDLES - Waiver secured for ‘in-month’ recurrency requirement.
December 15, 2005 - EAA and the National Association of Flight Instructors (NAFI) are asking the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) to help flight schools and independent flight instructors comply with mandated recurrent security training. Specifically, the member organizations would like TSA to create a free and field-accessible program to help ensure compliance with TSA regulation 49 CFR Part 1552, “Flight Training for Aliens and Other Designated Individuals; Security Awareness Training for Flight School Employees.”

EAA and NAFI are also asking TSA to make finding regulatory requirements within the TSA website a much simpler process by creating web links to specific Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Department of Transportation (DOT) regulations that impact initial and recurrent training.

Meanwhile, thanks to direct involvement from EAA, NAFI, and other aviation organizations, TSA has waived a requirement for flight school employees and independent CFIs to receive recurrent security training in the same month as when they received initial security awareness training. The waiver instead allows 18 months to get annual security awareness recurrency training.
EAA Government Relations Director Randy Hansen and EAA Vice President of Government Relations Doug Macnair made the requests during a series of recent discussions with TSA officials.

“We (EAA and NAFI) have received several phone calls from our members who are confused by the current process and find it difficult to locate specific regulatory and administrative requirements within the TSA website,” Hansen said. “Part of the confusion lies in the lack of information on the website about which TSA officials the public should contact when questions arise concerning either the initial or the recurrent security awareness training programs. We hope our discussions with TSA will eliminate these issues.”

TSA initially published the Security Training Awareness Training program for Flight Schools.

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