SofemaOnline.com looks at the benefits of being able to personally demonstrate EASA CAMO Regulatory Training background

Introduction

Continuing Airworthiness Management Organisation (CAMO) obligations are proscribed within EASA’s Implementing Rules EU 1321/2014.

A CAMO is directly responsible to the Air Operator Certificate (AOC) holder. A CAMO must also maintain detailed airworthiness records of the maintenance due as well as the maintenance performed, ensuring we are able to demonstrate Continuing Airworthiness.

Key CAMO Staff typically engage in Maintenance Planning, Technical Engineering, Technical Records, and Reliability Staff and are usually employed in multiple roles within the Continuing Airworthiness Management Organisation, consider that each and all of these staff have the potential to impact the organisation’s safety outcomes.

Direct Shipment Authorization

What is a Direct Shipment Authorization (DSA)?

FAA Order 8130.21 defines a DSA as the written authorization, granted to a supplier by a Production Approval Holder (PAH) with responsibility for the airworthiness of a product or article, to ship articles produced following the PAH’s quality/inspection system directly to the end users without the articles being processed through the PAH’s facility.

DSA is a method of delivering products and articles from the supplier to the end user directly, including shipment to other suppliers and/or repair stations. Through approved quality system procedures, a PAH authorizes and ensures products shipped by a supplier directly to an end user conform to the approved design and are in a condition for safe operation.

With a growing portfolio of Executive and Post Holder Courses Sofema Classroom & Online Training is ideally placed to support your objectives to bring your leadership team up to speed related to awareness of regulatory-driven roles & responsibilities.

Understanding and Interpreting EASA Form 4 Post Holder Qualifications - The first comment to share is that in general EASA requirements and obligations are or should be considered as minimum compliance. There is a good chance that if you feel that you are falling short in respect of the qualifications, there may be additional issues in respect of managing competence.

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Maintenance Planning Document (MPD) Considerations 

The Maintenance Planning Document (MPD) is a generic document issued by the Type Certificate Holder (TCH). The contents of the MPD are coordinated by the Industry Steering Committee (ISC) and Maintenance Review Board (MRB) using the (Maintenance Steering Group 3 Logic) MSG 3 process of analysis and task determination).

The MPD contains hundreds of tasks it is not a customised document and contains all necessary task Information to support all variations of both Modification Status and Aircraft Configuration.

The MPD may list a task as “pre-mod” or “post-mod” (Depending on Aircraft Configuration).

The MPD Also contains (either as a separate section or integrated within the document) Airworthiness Limitation Items (ALIs).

What is an export?

For issuance of an export airworthiness approval, an export is defined as the transfer of a product or article from the regulatory authority of one CAA to another.

It is important to understand that a product or article does not have to cross the border of a country for export to occur. For example, the shipment of a part from a U.S. supplier in the United States to a foreign approval holder in the United States would constitute an export even though the part did not leave the United States.

Similarly, it is also important to understand that crossing an international border does not necessarily constitute a change in regulatory authority for a product or article. For example, the shipment of a part from a U.S. supplier in another country to its U.S. Production Approval Holder (PAH) would not constitute an export.

Sofema Online www.sofemaonline.com offers an interesting and cost-effective solution for CAMO new starters – see below for details.

The Challenge

To bring new starters up to speed with the EASA regulations essentially related to regulation 1321/2014 

How to engage with a process that supports the initial development of competence? 

What is Available?

If the organization performing the service is certified by both the FAA and the CAA, which block should be checked when returning an article to service after maintenance?

When FAA Form 8130-3 is used as approval for return to service to meet the terms and conditions of a bilateral agreement’s Maintenance Implementation Procedures (MIP) or the Maintenance Annex Guidance (MAG), the air agency or air carrier must check both boxes in Block 14a stating: “14 CFR 43.9 Return to Service” and “Other regulations specified in Block 12” and provide the appropriate information in Blocks 11 and 12. 

This is considered a dual-release FAA Form 8130-3. This action should also be contained in the air agency’s supplement. The regulations of the other CAA must be specifically identified in Block 12.

Who can issue FAA Form 8130-3 as approval for service return?

Air agencies certificated under Part 145, or the holder of a U.S. air carrier certificate operating under Part 121 or Part 135, with an approved continued airworthiness maintenance programme, may issue an FAA Form 8130-3 for approval for return to service for a product or article maintained or altered under Part 43.

A Production Approval Holder (PAH) may issue an FAA Form 8130-3 for approval for return to service after rebuilding, altering, or inspecting its product/article following §§ 43.3(j) and 43.7(d). The use of FAA Form 8130-3 for this purpose is optional, but the FAA recommends its use. This will help aviation authorities and industry to ensure complete traceability and ease the movement of products and articles through the aviation system.

What is the purpose of FAA Form 8130-3? 

FAA Form 8130-3 may be used:

- To constitute a statement from the FAA that a new product or article produced under Title 14 of the Code of Federal Regulations (14 CFR) Part 21, Certification Procedures for Products and Parts, conforms to its design and is in a condition for safe operation.

- To return to service a used product or article following inspection, maintenance, or alteration.

- When exporting products or articles to meet the requirements of bilateral agreements between the United States and other countries. This includes the shipment, not the export, of a prototype product or article to another country.

Do Organisations “underperform”?

Please consider the following questions:

Are you happy that as an Organisation you have assessed the Risk and exposure across the business to reduce it to its minimum exposure within the context of the organisations “reasonable” expectations (Here we reference the term as low as reasonably practicable ALARP)?

Are you happy with the level of reporting within the organisation? Not just the events, that have happened but also the “nearly events” How are you measuring the effectiveness of your internal reporting system?

As a general guy for every Mandatory Occurrence Report (MOR) or Service Difficulty Report (SDR).

So there are essentially 2 elements to this presentation:

a) Considering the Role of Quality Assurance means What does an EASA Quality Assurance Do?
b) Maximising the Return on the Investment (Which Investment? - Essentially the Investment the Organisation makes to deliver the role of Quality Assurance)

Considering the QA - QC connection

One interpretation defines QC as “to check, test, or verify by evidence or experiments” and assurance is defined as “confidence of delivery” (maybe too narrow for our needs).

Concerning Changes to EASA Part 145 Related to Annex II to ED Decision 2019/009/R

New Requirements Procedures and Obligations related to Stores, Material, and Logistic Activities with an EASA Part 145 Organisation

Review by Steve Bentley CEO of Sofema Aviation Services www.sassofia.com

Concerning

Acceptable Means of Compliance (AMC) and Guidance Material (GM) to Annex II (Part-145) to Commission Regulation (EU) No 1321/2014 Issue 2 — Amendment 2

When is a new AMC & Guidance-driven requirement effective?

As the technical complexity of aircraft has developed over the last 100 years the nature of interaction with people associated with the maintenance of aircraft began to matter more & more and today human factors is relevant in just about every aspect and element of the maintenance system. 

The use of the term "human factors" in the context of aviation maintenance engineering is relatively new. In fact, EASA only started mandating Compulsory HF training in 2005.

Several Landmark aircraft accidents, for example, the Aloha aircraft in the USA in 1988 and the British Airways BAC 1-11 windscreen accident in the UK in June 1990 showed that there was an unacceptable level of exposure to the potential of Maintenance Human Factors MHF.

Presentation Introduction – The Aviation Quality & Safety Management Symposium - Holiday Inn Sofia Bulgaria – Tues May 14th & Wed May 15th 2019  

If you are engaged in Aviation Quality & Safety Management this is your one "must attend" event of the year.

Here is your opportunity to engage with a professional who has decades of experience and is able to rise to the challenge of any Airport Security issue and to share an understanding regarding best practice solutions.

For event details please see the following link:

https://sassofia.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/General_Updated_3.pdf 

Introduction

Related to SMS Quality Assurance has 2 distinct roles:

Presentation Introduction – The Aviation Quality & Safety Management Symposium - Holiday Inn Sofia Bulgaria – Tues May 14th & Wed May 15th, 2019

If you are engaged in Aviation Quality & Safety Management this is your one "must-attend" event of the year.

Presentation by Adam Sider

Adam has held multiple key positions such as OCC manager, Director – Quality Assurance, and Director – Flight Operations Center

In addition, he played a significant role in establishing and setting up flight dispatch and OCCs for international and local airlines operating over 1600 flights a month, in addition to providing full mentorship programs.

With this extended experience, I have achieved expert working knowledge within flight dispatch, safety & quality, DGR, and training.

Presentation Introduction – The Aviation Quality & Safety Management Symposium - Holiday Inn Sofia Bulgaria – Tues May 14th & Wed May 15th, 2019

A presentation on effective measurement of safety system performance. Davit Mazmishvili, M.Sc.Eng CEO at Aviation Innovative Solutions Group has a broad technical knowledge of airline operations, an experienced aircraft commander, and training pilot hands-on experience, in setting up the Safety Management System, Emergency Response Plan, and Aviation Security Management Systems.

If you are engaged in Aviation Quality & Safety Management this is your one "must-attend" event of the year.

Here is your opportunity to engage with a professional who has decades of experience and can rise to the challenge of any Airport Security issue and to share an understanding regarding best practice solutions.

Presentation Introduction – The Aviation Quality & Safety Management Symposium - Holiday Inn Sofia Bulgaria – Tues May 14th & Wed May 15th, 2019 

Florin Necula is Accountable Manager of RAS Tech an EASA 145 based at Otopeni Airport Bucharest will be presenting on the subject of dealing with the challenges related to Developing an Aviation Safety Culture  

If you are engaged in Aviation Quality & Safety Management this is your one "must-attend" event of the year.

Here is your opportunity to engage with a professional who has decades of experience and can rise to the challenge of any Airport Security issue and to share an understanding regarding best practice solutions.

James Pike Managing Director of JP International Training Ltd will be presenting on the subject of Auditing Airport Security with a focus on understanding and addressing the various challenges

Presentation Introduction – The Aviation Quality & Safety Management Symposium - Holiday Inn Sofia Bulgaria – Tues May 14th & Wed May 15th, 2019

If you are engaged in Aviation Quality & Safety Management this is your one "must-attend" event of the year.

Here is your opportunity to engage with a professional who has decades of experience and can rise to the challenge of any Airport Security issue and to share an understanding regarding best practice solutions.

For event details please see the following link:

Presentation Introduction – Aviation Quality & Safety Management t Symposium - Holiday Inn Sofia Bulgaria – Tues May 14th & Wed May 15th, 2019

If you are engaged in Aviation Quality & Safety Management this is your one "must-attend" event of the year. 

https://sassofia.com/event/aviation-quality-safety-management-in-an-easa-environment-symposium-14-15-may-2019/ 

Introduction

Within the European Environment, the Role of Quality Assurance and Quality Control is quite specific and for QA the keywords are “Compliance” and “Independence” for QC the keywords are “Production Quality to a Standard”.

Date: 14-15th May 2015

Venue: Holliday Inn Hotel, Sofia, Bulgaria. 

If you are engaged in Aviation Quality & Safety Management this is your one “must-attend” event of the year.

Rustom Sutaria, Director - Avia Intelligence Ltd will be running a focused workshop during the Aviation Quality & Safety Management Symposium.

De-Mystifying Bow Tie

Bowtie is one of many risk models which can support the identification of barriers. In many circumstances Bow Tie provides specific benefits, to assist with the identification process as well as to facilitate the management of risk.