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Overview & presentation by Sofema Aviation Services (SAS) The European Aviation Environment is subject to significant complexity across multiple domains – Air Traffic Control (ATC) Air Navigation Services (ANS) Aerodromes, Operators, Maintainers & Continuing Airworthiness Organisations. Faced with enormous challenges to re-write the entire European regulatory environment (whose construction the UK in fact was a…

Sofema Aviation Services (SAS) considers the current status and changes following the issue of the ICAO Safety Management Manual, Doc 9859, 4th Edition. Aviation SMS 2023 – ICAO Drivers General Introduction Aviation Safety Management Systems (SMS) are a work in progress and the standards and regulatory drivers will continue to focus on evolution and strategy…

Sofema Aviation Services (SAS) considers the key features of the process to obtain a Permit to Fly. Permit to Fly – Introduction Commission Regulation (EU) No. 748/2012, Annex I Part 21 makes provision for an EASA Permit to Fly to be issued for an aircraft to fly when a valid EASA airworthiness certificate is currently…

Sofema Aviation Services (SAS) considers issues related to EASA / UK Certification. Introduction: EASA Form 1 and UK CAA Form 1 The European Union Trade and Cooperation Agreement (EU-UK) states; “The importing Party shall recognize the production certification and production oversight system of the exporting Party since the system is considered sufficiently equivalent to the…