February 18, 2019

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The following is redacted overview of AMC to CAR OPS Subpart B – 1.035

Accountable Manager – The person acceptable to the Authority who has corporate authority for ensuring that all operations and maintenance activities can be financed and carried out to the standard required by the Authority, and any additional requirements defined by the operator.

Note – The Accountable Manager will have overall responsibility for the Quality System including the frequency, format and structure of the internal management evaluation activities as prescribed in paragraph

Quality Assurance – All those planned and systematic actions necessary to provide adequate confidence that operational and maintenance practices satisfy given requirements.

iii. Quality Manager. The manager, acceptable to the Authority, responsible for the management of the Quality System, monitoring function and requesting corrective actions.

Quality Policy – The Quality Policy should reflect the achievement and continued compliance with CAR-OPS 1 together with any additional standards specified by the operator.

Quality ManagerĀ – The function of the Quality Manager to monitor compliance with, and the adequacy of, procedures required to ensure safe operational practices and airworthy aeroplanes, as required by CAR-OPS 1.035(a), may be carried out by more than one person by means of different, but complementary, Quality Assurance Programmes.

The Quality Manager should be responsible for ensuring that the Quality Assurance Programme is properly established, implemented and maintained.

Have direct access to the Accountable Manager;

Not be one of the nominated post holders; and

Have access to all parts of the operatorā€™s and, as necessary, any subcontractors organisation.

 

Oversight Obligations

As a minimum, the Quality System should address the following:

a. The provisions of CAR-OPS;

b. The operatorā€™s additional standards and operating procedures;

c. The operatorā€™s Quality Policy;

d. The operatorā€™s organisational structure;

e. Responsibility for the development, establishment and management of the Quality System;

f. Documentation, including manuals, reports and records;

g. Quality Procedures;

h. Quality Assurance Programme;

i. The required financial, material, and human resources;

j. Training requirements.

The quality system should include a feedback system to the Accountable Manager to ensure that corrective actions are both identified and promptly addressed. The feedback system should also specify who is required to rectify discrepancies and non-compliance in each particular case, and the procedure to be followed if corrective action is not completed within an appropriate timescale.

Relevant Documentation – Relevant documentation includes the relevant part of the Operations Manual and the Operatorā€™s Continous Airworthiness Management Exposition, which may be included in a separate Quality Manual.

In addition, relevant documentation should also include the following:

a. Quality Policy;

b. Terminology;

c. Specified operational standards;

d. A description of the organisation;

e. The allocation of duties and responsibilities;

f. Operational procedures to ensure regulatory compliance;

g. Safety Management System;

h. The Quality Assurance Programme, reflecting;

i. Schedule of the monitoring process;

ii. Audit procedures;

iii. Reporting procedures;

iv. Follow-up and corrective action procedures;

v. Recording system;

i. The training syllabus; and

j. Document control.

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