I have to admit I have never heard of an icing endorsement or BRNAV endorsements, can you tell me more? I fly an BRNAV FIKI aircraft and while it is true that the aircraft is endorsed as such, I have nothing in my logbook to show for it. Anyway.
Icing Operations Pilot Certification—for your ground and in-flight operations
Get required FAA initial and recurrent training for pilots for ground and in-flight icing conditions when operating under Part 91K, Part 125 and Part 135.
This course, along with company and aircraft-specific training, can be used to meet annual training requirements when approved by your FAA Principal Operations Inspector (POI). Satisfies IS-BAO recurrent training requirements.
Practical and Easy Learning
The Icing Operations course provides the information pilots need to know for safe operations in adverse conditions in an efficient, effective, practical, and easy to understand format ... with a downloadable cockpit reference card, a course completion certificate and a logbook endorsement.
You'll Learn...
- Introduction to Operations in Icing Conditions
- Rules and the Basics about Icing Conditions
- Preflight Planning
- Ground Operations
- Flight Operations with Icing Conditions Present
This Course Covers...
- Surface contaminates and how they affect aircraft performance
- Conditions conducive to icing
- Types of ice formation
- Techniques for recognizing contamination
- Cold weather preflight inspection procedures
- Hidden hazards for deicing operations
- Aircraft deicing/anti-icing procedures
- Including inspection procedures and responsibilities
- Types and characteristics of approved deicing/anti-icing fluids
- The use of holdover timetables
- Required company guidance
- Required communications between pilots and ground crews
- Flight planning techniques for icing conditions
- Severe weather avoidance and escape
Thats the first.
P-RNAV / B-RNAV Pilot Certification—for European terminal airspace
The Joint Aviation Authorities (JAA) and EUROCONTROL require pilot training and authorization to fly Precision and Basic Area Navigation (P-RNAV / B-RNAV) procedures in Europe.
This course provides all the general information required in JAA TGL-10 for pilot authorization. Just add company and aircraft specific information to obtain P-RNAV authorization from your national aviation authority in accordance with ICAO and JAA regulations (for U.S. operators, the FAA). Satisfies IS-BAO recurrent training requirements.
You'll Learn...
- Aircraft certification and authorization requirements
- Operational authorization requirements
- Pilot training and authorization requirements
- RNAV waypoints and path terminators
- RNAV departure and arrival Procedures
- Normal operations in an RNAV environment
- Required flight plan Information for RNAV operations
- Standard RNAV radio phraseology
- Terrain clearance considerations in an RNAV environment
- Contingency operations for RNAV
- JAA incident reporting criteria
And there is the second.
Just because you havent heard of it, doesnt mean it doesnt exist!!
You would be surprised what some insurers ask for prior to issuing cover.
You can bet if they are requesting it, then if there was ever the need of a claim, and you didnt have it, then my take is they would use that lack of an item to try and wriggle out of the claim.
Fortunately I have never had to put it into practice but I personally feel its better to have more than you need and risk being over qualified.