#2026-572France Updates Career Levels for DGAC Technical Flight Personnel
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This decree changes how technical flight personnel at France’s civil aviation authority can access higher career levels. It allows access to levels 5 and 6 not only through aviation qualifications, but also based on the functions people actually perform. The practical effect is mainly internal to the DGAC and related aviation training and oversight roles. Flight instructors, inspectors, training managers and safety or compliance managers may see their classification depend more clearly on their duties, after an evaluation process set by the civil aviation minister.
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Key Changes
- Allows access to levels 5 and 6 based on the functions performed, not only on qualifications
- Requires an evaluation process for recruitment into the relevant personnel groups
- Updates the tables linking aircraft and helicopter qualifications, DGAC functions and career levels
Obligations
What this law requires
The Minister responsible for civil aviation must set, by ministerial order, the procedures for the evaluation required before DGAC technical flight personnel may be recruited into one of the three groups based on the post, aviation qualifications, and functions performed.
DGAC must recruit technical flight personnel into the applicable group only after the person has satisfied the evaluation procedure set by the Minister responsible for civil aviation.
DGAC must classify technical flight personnel into one of the three groups according to the nature of the post to be filled, the aviation qualifications held, and the functions performed under the decree’s classification tables.
DGAC may grant access to levels 5 and 6 based on the functions actually performed, in addition to access based on aviation qualifications, where the relevant functions are listed in Article 5 classification tables.