Surveillance Programme 2011

z DIRECTORATE GENERAL OF CIVIL AVIATION, INDIA ANNUAL SURVEILLANCE PROGRAMME 2011 1 DGCA-INDIA ANNUAL SURVEILLANCE PROGRAMME 2011 FORE WORD India a contracting state to the Convention on International Civil Aviation and a member of the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) has an obligation to promote the safe, orderly and efficient operation of aviation activities. To meet state obligations, DGCA has laid down national regulations to ensure compliance with various Standard & Recommended Practices laid down by ICAO in Annexes to the convention. The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) is a regulatory body dealing mainly with safety issues. DGCA is also responsible for regulation of air transport services to/from/within India and for enforcement of civil air regulations, airworthiness and air safety. DGCA consists of Technical and Administration Directorates. Technical Directorates are–Airworthiness Directorate, Aerodr- ome Standards Directorate; Air Safety Directorate; Air Transport Directorate; Air Trffic Management Directorate, Flight Standard Directorate,Regulations & Information Directorate; Aircraft Engineering Directorate, Flying, Grants & Training Directorate, Cabin Crew Safety Division & Dangerous Goods Division. DGCA Hqrs. is located in New Delhi with regional offices in the various parts of India. There are 14 (fourteen) Regional Airworthi- ness Offices located at Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, Kolkata, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Cochin, Bhopal, Lucknow & Kanpur, Patna, Patiala, Guwahati, and Bhubaneshwar. Apart from the Regional Airworthiness Offices, there are 5 (five) Regional Air Safety offices located at Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, Kolkata and Hyderabad and AED office located at Bangalore. DGCA has developed a system of surveillance to ensure continuing organizational, as well as individual, professional competency of license/rating/certificate/approval holders, continuing capacity to maintain a safe and regular operation by air operators and service providers and continuing capacity to properly maintain aviation related Aircraft Maintenance Organisations and other areas such as Dangerous Goods, Aerodromes and Air Navigation Services. Surveillance function/system is the means of ensuring acceptable level of safety in civil aviation. Surveillances provide essential information on the state of compliance of organization & individual participants, identifying any corrective action needed to bring performance up to the required level. Surveillance aims to identify and correct non-compliance behaviors and unsafe practices before they cause any accident or incident. DGCA surveillance activity covers all participants in Civil Aviation System. (“Participants” include all organizations, individuals, products as well as services, procedures & facilities for which an aviation document is required by the Aircraft Rules to operate in the civil aviation system). Surveillance Programme for the aviation activities under his/her Directorate Normally,all activities of each Organization/operator will be inspected within a period of one year. On completion of the surveillance, the deficiencies observed by the DGCA officers are listed and discussed in a de-briefing meeting wherein the operator/organization representatives may give their views. After final discussion, deficiencies/non- conformity notices are listed in Deficiency Reporting Form CA-2001 Rev-1, which is duly signed by the officer(s) and forwarded to the concerned operator/organization. For every deficiency observed, the operator/organization is required to set the target date for making good the deficiency on Form CA-2001 Rev-1 and submit the same to the DGCA office 2 DGCA-INDIA ANNUAL SURVEILLANCE PROGRAMME 2011 for acceptance. On receipt of such form, DGCA officers will review the target date before acceptance of the same. Notwithstanding the above, DGCA may take disciplinary action such as suspension, cancellation/restricting the scope of approval wherever serious violations of laid down requirements are noticed and emergent action is required. Any failure on the part of the operator/organization to rectify the deficiency satisfactorily and within the time frame set and as agreed by DGCA, may invite appropriate action as per the Rules. Director General (CA) has operationalised the Annual Surveillance Programme (ASP) of 2010 successfully, carried out number of surveillance inspections and detected number of Level 1 and Level 2 defficiencies. These deficiencies have been addressed successfully by all the stake holders. This has ensured strict compliance of Regulations.This has ultimately led to enhancement in aviation safety. Director General (CA) has prepared an improved version of Annual Surveillance Programme (ASP) based on experiences gained during 2010 and comprises of all Directorates. The programme has been developed after taking into account available resources in the organization and number of Aviation Safety Inspectors is also proposed to be increased in the year 2011. ASP is being published as one document outlining ASP of Airworthiness Directorate and the ASP of other Directorates within DGCA and covers all areas of aviation safety. The annual goal of ASP for DGCA is shown as under. A monthly programme of Surveillance is also prepared, which covers all Schedule/Non Schedule/ PrivateOperators/ General Aviation Organisations/ State Govt Aircraft and their operations/ Oil companies and also Safety Assessment of Foreign Airlines.Each Directorate shall carry out night surveillance for Schedule/Non Schedule operators every month. Surveillance Inspection of Foreign Airlines shall be jointly carried out by inspectors from Flight Inspection Directorate and Airworthiness Directorate as per the monthly programm.Survellance Division will co-ordinate in this matter. A monthly progress report of ASP will be submitted by all Regional Offices (including their Sub-Regional Offices) to their respective Directorates in Hqrs. by 10th of the following month on prescribed proforma. All Directorates at Hqrs. shall send report to Nodal Officer of ASP Shri Charan Das, JDG by 15th of the following month in the form of Table A, B1, B2, B3, B4, C, E & F. A monthly review of ASP/Audits will be held on every 20th of the following month in DGCA Hqrs., wherein monthly progress, shortfalls against monthly targets will be analyzed by DGCA along with analysis of identified deficiencies categorized into level II. All level I deficiencies are analyzed in the Board of Aviation Safety meeting which is being conducted 5th of the following month in DGCA Hqrs. These deficiencies will be fed into the ASP Data Pool for resolution, tracking and dissemination of safety related issues. Director General (CA) appeal to all officials of DGCA and the stake holders to participate in the surveillance programe in a constructive and positive manner so that regulation are strictly compiled with there by contributing overallaviation safety.It is expected that by collectice endevaour India shall continue to remain well above the International standards. 3 DGCA-INDIA ANNUAL SURVEILLANCE PROGRAMME 2011 HIGHLIGHTS OF THE SURVEILLANCE FOR THE YEAR 2009 Total No. of Total No. of Total deficiency Total deficiency Surveillance Surveillance detected corrected (Number) Targeted conducted (Number) Level I Level II Level I Level II 2600 2856 40 4518 40 4518 Enforcement Actions During the Year -99 HIGHLIGHTS OF THE SURVEILLANCE FOR THE YEAR 2010 Total No. of Total No. of Total deficiency Total deficiency Surveillance Surveillance detected corrected (Number) Targeted conducted (Number) Level I Level II Level I Level II 3857 3843 36 5652 36 5652 Enforcement Actions during the year - 86 Acheivements – All areas of Civil Aviation activities were covered. Safety of Foreign Aircraft (SOFA) was introduced. Night Surveillance introduced. Cross Regional Checks Carried Out Quality Assesment Checks for the operators were carried out. State Governments & Private Operators also brought under the area of surveillance Sharing of safety related information which went on the web site Enforcement actions were taken promptly. 4 DGCA-INDIA ANNUAL SURVEILLANCE PROGRAMME 2011 HIGHLIGHTS FOR ASP 2011 1. Additional Inspections introduced based on the new regulations introduced. 2. Analysis of the surveillance data for the last two years. 3. Risk Based Oversight Annual Surveilalnce Plan for the year 2011. 4. Overight of Foreign MROs is being introduced. 5. Standardisation cum oversight checks for the operators is introduced. 5 DGCA-INDIA ANNUAL SURVEILLANCE PROGRAMME 2011 ANNUAL DETAIL OF SURVEILLANCE NAME OF DIRECTORATE TOTAL No. of S.NO SURVEILLANCE 1 DIRECTORATE OF AIRWORTHINESS 955 2 DIRECTORATE OF AIRCRAFT ENGINEERING 14 3 DIRECTORATE OF AERODROME STANDARD 27 4 DIRECTORATE OF AIR SAFETY 631 5 DIRECTORATE OF AIR NAVIGATION SERVICES 24 FSD & AW Dte. (carries out the 6 DIRECTORATE OF AIR TRANSPORT inspections for AT Div) 7 DIRECTORATE OF FLYING, GRANTS & TRAINING 40 8 DIRECTORATE OF FLIGHT STANDARD 1232 9 DIRECTORATE OF REGULATION & INFORMATION 15 10 CABIN SAFETY DIVISION 120 11 DANGEROUS GOODS DIVISION 187 12 SOFA 72 13 FOREIGN MROs 27 14 STANDARDISATION CHECKS FOR OPERATORS 24 GRAND TOTAL 3368 6 DGCA-INDIA ANNUAL SURVEILLANCE PROGRAMME 2011 INDEX SNo. DETAILS OF SURVEILLANCE PROGRAMME Page No. 1. DIRECTORATE OF AIRWORTHINESS, HEADQUARTERS 10 i. DEPUTY DIRECTOR GENERAL, DELHI REGION 24 ii. DEPUTY DIRECTOR GENERAL, MUMBAI 139 iii. DEPUTY DIRECTOR GENERAL, CHENNAI 162 iv. DEPUTY DIRECTOR GENERAL, BANGALORE 192 v. DEPUTY DIRECTOR GENERAL,

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