This sets out the sailing frequency requirements for the different categories of pilotage areas. To be issued or maintain a pilot certificate for a specific pilotage area, the holder must meet the applicable frequency requirements for that pilotage area.
Documentation of the sailing frequency must be submitted electronically via the Danish Maritime Authority's reporting system. The requirement for sailing frequency is assessed based on how many pilots are certified for the area in question and how many pilotage operations are carried out in the area. The goal is to categorise the sailing frequency requirement as high as possible for each pilotage area.
The sailing frequency is defined as a number of peer-to-peer training sessions/pilotages within a five-year period in the following categories:
- Category GL/A – at least 20 peer-to-peer training sessions/pilotages in the pilotage area, 10 of which can be acquired through simulator training.
- Category GL/B - at least 10 peer-to-peer training sessions/pilotages in the pilotage area, 5 of which can be acquired through simulator training.
- Category GL/C - at least 5 peer-to-peer training sessions/pilotages in the pilotage area, 2 of which can be acquired through simulator training.
- Category GL/D - at least 2 peer-to-peer training sessions/pilotages in the pilotage area. To obtain a certificate, the trainee must have performed at least 40 pilotage operations in Greenland within the last five years.
- Category GL/E - at least 1 peer-to-peer training sessions/pilotage in the pilotage area. To obtain a certificate for the pilotage area, the trainee must have performed at least 80 pilotage operations in Greenland within the last five years,
of which at least 10 pilotage operations in the northern navigation zone.
- Category GL/F - at least 1 peer-to-peer training sessions/pilotage in the pilotage area.
For pilotage areas with category GL/A to GL/E applies, that it gives the right to sail and anchor in the pilotage area.
For the port pilotage areas, the pilot candidate must have piloted the required number of pilotages all the way to the quay, in order to obtain the ports.
The pilot certificate may be limited to different ship sizes, cf. §3. Paragraph 2. in the Order for Greenland on pilotage etc. No. 1476
If the holder of a pilotage certificate no longer fulfills the conditions, the person in question is immediately obliged to inform the Danish Maritime Authority of this fact.