Minutes of 8th Airworthiness Consultative Committee Meeting ...

Minutes of 8 th Airworthiness Consultative Committee Meeting
Thursday 22 nd November 2012
Radisson Blu Hotel, Yas Island, Abu Dhabi
Meeting attended by:
NAME
TITLE
Industry
Afif Al Aker
Abu Dhabi Aircraft Technologies
Shevantha Weerasekera Abu Dhabi Aircraft Technologies
Alexandre Mule
Aerostructures M.E. Services
Bouchaib Dolla
Air Arabia
Les A. Boe
Al Jaber Aviation
Oussama Salah
Al Jaber Aviation
Patis Yurdakul
Asscom
Trevor Crow
AVISA Gulf
Arnel Odeste
Belgraver M.E.
Mukhtar Khalid
Belgraver M.E.
Elias Tag
Dana Executive Jets
Andrew Lawson
Dubai Air Wing
Lloyd Cummins
Dubai Air Wing
Jasim Hassan
Emirates Airlines
Mark Robinson
Emirates Airlines
Salah Mahdi Hassan
Emirates Airlines
Youssef Bahsoun
Emirates Airlines
Manu Mathusudanan
Emirates Aviation Services
S. Ghosh Emirates Aviation Services
Clifford Ralston De Vaz
Ethihad Airways
Chris Rosewarne
ExecuJet Aviation Group
Christian Hollyer
ExecuJet Aviation Group
John Crook
ExecuJet Aviation Group
Mark Fitzpatrick
ExecuJet Aviation Group
Matthew Withers
Execujet M.E - AMO
David Lewis
FlyDubai
Mick Hills
FlyDubai
Aleksandar Velokovic
Global Jet
Khaled Abu Shawar
Global Jet

Nafez Zahdeh
Tony Beaumont
Wajahat Ali Khan
Patrick McDonald-Meyer
Irani R. Rohinton
Luigi Fernando
Qatada Alani
Hani George Khoury
Serghei Grigoriev
Mourad Ait-Ouyahia
Russell Lee
Amjad Molabaksh
Paymen Sabeti
Omeir Ahmed
Abhijit Choudhury
Mohamad Chandab
Nikhil Mohan
Ahmed Al Rawahi (Chairman)
Hatem Dibian (HD)
Zahid Munawar (ZM)
Omar Bin Ghannam (OG)
Omar Musa (OM)
Mohammed Al Shamali (MSh)
Jamal Al Noumani (JN)
Saeed Ur Rahman (SR)
Muhammad Kamran Shakir (KS)
Luz Angelica Hidalgo (LH)
Khalid Ahmed Mousa (KM)
Seema Siddique (SS)
Gulf Wings
Hawker Pacific Airservices + RBI Hawker
Jet Aviation
Jet-Ops FZE
Livewel Aircrafts Maintenance
Maximus Air Cargo
Midex Airlines
Presidential Flight
RAK Airways - AMO
Royal Jet
Rulers Flight Sharjah
Sabeti Wain Aerospace
Sabeti Wain Aerospace
Strata Manufacturing
SPS M.E.
Zodiac Seat Services Middle East
Zodiac Seat Services Middle East
GCAA
Director of Airworthiness
Manager Air Operators & CAMO
Manager Engineering Safety
Manager MROs
Senior Inspector – MROs
Inspector - MROs
Inspector – MROs
Manager Safety Risk Management
Business Analyst – IT
Head - Aircraft Registry Unit
Planning and Standards Specialist
Administrative Assistant
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1. Introduction:
The Chairman welcomed everyone to the meeting and thanked Presidential
Flight for making the necessary arrangements for the event.
All attendees briefly introduced themselves to the group.
2. Chairman’s Presentation on Airworthiness:
A presentation was made by the Chairman to familiarise the industry with
the Airworthiness Department’s functionalities and structure.
3. CAR 145:
Omar Musa gave a presentation about CAR 145 activities and
responsibilities of the MROs team (for details please refer to the attached
presentation).
Discussion Items:
1. What are the requirements to add new stations or aircraft types to
existing approved AMOs?
Every extension goes through the normal process of verification. The
requirement are, as defined in the Appendix to GM 145:
Application for Extension of AMO Approval to GCAA. Applicant
is required to include assessment/audit report from the
Operator (UAE Operator), to show satisfactory compliance with
the regulation on the capability requested.
This assessment/report is to assist the GCAA application
assessment, to avoid any delay, as GCAA may use this
assessment/report to accept the application without GCAA
audit or reject the application.
The depth of each assessment/audit may be varied depending
on the experience and extend of services to other UAE
Operators for similar aircraft.
2. What is the requirement for certifying staff in converting A330
passenger top freighter?
Etihad referred to EASA approval which considers it as a type,
but the MOE and the Certifying staff company authorisation
defines the exact types.
The Applicant must demonstrate compliance with GCAA
requirement for the Rating applied, including having sufficient
staff, including qualified/trained Certifying staff and other
requirements.
Certifying staff must be trained, qualified and authorized in
accordance with the defined procedure in the MOE. This
defined procedure must be in-line with GCAA CAR 66.
Organization must adhere to the MOE.
The organization must be able to show proof of certifying staff
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training for on the aircraft type/variants, passenger and/or
freighter. Where Differences training is required, the
organization must still show that the training provided to the
certifying staff is in accordance with the regulation.
GCAA will accept type training conducted in accordance with
the standards defined in the CAR 147/CAR 66 requirements.
Any other standard, such as that acquired through “read &
sign” is not acceptable.
3. In the new 145 regulations, EASA has incorporated many changes
regarding competencies. What is GCAA’s action with regard to
these changes?
The GCAA is reviewing the changes made by EASA and these will be
incorporated in the GCAA wherever practically possible, taking into
account the practicality, suitability and safety benefits to the
industry.
4. Does GCAA require EWIS training?
Yes it is in the pipeline.
5. IFE service providers (licencing query).
The query will be forwarded to Licencing for them to address it.
6. Job cards, continuous worksheets, etc. hold a CRS sheet. Will this
now be replaced by a single CRS sheet for all documents?
All CRS issued shall be in accordance with the current standards
defined in the regulations (CAR M & CAR 145).
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4. Aircraft Registry + CAR M:
Luz Hidalgo gave a presentation about Aircraft Registry’s processes and
procedures.
Hatem Dibian gave a presentation about CAR M activities and
responsibilities of the Air Operators and CAMO team. (for details please
refer to the attached presentation).
Discussion Items:
1. Will there be any changes to COA and COR applications after 25
November 2012?
No there will be no changes.
2. To apply for change of operators, previously the operator was
required to deregister the aircraft. Is this still needed?
Any aircraft with A6 registration will remain A6 even after change of
operator. Hence deregistration of aircraft is not required. The COR
is linked to all certificates issued towards that aircraft.
3. When applying for deregistration, other than the documents
mentioned in the checklist the Inspectors ask for many other
additional documents. The form needs to be updated.
The form has been amended lately to include more details.
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4. During the initial application the operator might not have all the
required set of documents available. How can more documents be
added throughout the process?
All Airworthiness Inspectors will be made familiar with the system
during a workshop which will be held shortly. There are 3 steps
after initial application where documents can be uploaded.
5. Can e-archiving and e-services be linked so that all the documents
uploaded on e-services can be directly e-archived also?
Due to limitations of file size that can be uploaded it might not be
very easy for operators to upload heavy files. However, IT will work
on this and try to find a solution.
IT - KS
5. CAR 21:
Zahid Munawar gave a presentation about CAR 21 activities and
responsibilities of the Engineering Safety team. (for details please refer to
the attached presentation).
Discussion Items:
1. By when does the GCAA plan to start approving POAs?
The GCAA intends to start approval of POAs at the earliest, but so
far, there is no fixed date. The Industry will be kept informed of the
progress.
6. Acknowledgement Trophy:
Mr. Oussama Salah of Al Jaber Aviation was presented with the GCAA
trophy, acknowledging his contribution to the aviation sector in the UAE for
over 16 years.
Mr. Salah has served the aviation industry for 35 years. He started with
Royal Jordanian in 1977 as a Planning Engineer and left as Director Quality
Control in 1996. In 1996 he joined GAMCO (ADAT) as Manager QA and then
moved to Head of Planning, Head of Technical Services for a brief period
and finally Head of Rotatable Management and Component Overhaul.
In 2004 Mr. Salah joined Air Arabia as Manager QA Maintenance and then
in 2005 he became Manager QA (Maint and Ops). Finally in 2008 he joined
Al Jaber Aviation at the start-up phase as Head of QA (Maint and Ops).
Mr. Oussama Salah was very appreciative of the GCAA for the excellent
support and working partnership throughout his career in the U.A.E. We
wish Mr. Salah every success in his future endeavours.
NEXT MEETING: The next meeting will be held on 30 May 2013.
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