ACTIVITY REPORT 2014 Civil Aviation Safety Directorate NATIONAL OVERSIGHT AUTHORITY Ministère de l'Écologie, du Développement durable et de l’Énergie www.developpement-durable.gouv.fr DSAC - Activity report 2014 CONTENTS FOREWORD ORGANISATION CHART ........................................... 4 HIGHLIGHTS ........................................................... 6 Safety, a permanent quest At the time of writing this introduction to the 2014 annual report of the Civil Aviation Safety Directorate (DSAC), ASSESSMENT AND IMPROVEMENT OF SAFETY ............................ 8 our thoughts inevitably turn to the crash of the Germanwings airliner in France in March 2015, and the profound shock resulting from it. RESOURCES MANAGEMENT ................................ 10 This disaster succeeded others occurring in 2014, all of which marked black days for aviation. Every major accident, whatever the circumstances, brings distress to citizens and professionals alike, calls EUROPE the authorities to account, mobilises the mass media, and revives the fear of fl ying. AND ITS SAFETY REGULATIONS .......................... 14 Since the very act of aviation seems to contradict the laws of nature, safety is - and must remain - the absolute AIRCREWS ............................................................ 18 priority in air transport, in order to ensure that the citizen retains confi dence in this mode of transport, with its capacity to instil fascination just as much as dread. AIRWORTHINESS AND AIR OPERATIONS .......................................... 24 We all have our role to play in this permanent mobilisation: the companies fi rst and foremost, through the commitment and actions of their executives and employees in their daily operations, and through AIRPORTS effi cient risk management by way of safety management systems. Then there is DSAC, which checks AND AIR NAVIGATION ........................................... 28 standards compliance within a now overtly European framework, serving as a safety barrier but also as a leading investigator in identifying paths for improving safety and promoting adoption SECURITY ............................................................. 32 of these paths by operators. Lastly, there is the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA), ENVIRONMENT now responsible for most of the regulations, and for overseeing the harmonisation of their AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT .................... 34 application in Europe. More than just a mission, safety is a strict obligation for every stakeholder concerned, THE DSAC/IRs ...................................................... 36 and is the very focal point of everything that DSAC undertakes. The fear of accidents GLOSSARY ............................................................ 56 becomes in reality a powerful driving force for making progress and for pushing back the limits ever further; for attempting to make further inroads in securing the confi dence of our fellow citizens for whom, in answer to the question posed in a recent survey carried out by a polling institute: “Do you some- times get frightened ying in a plane?”, 34% of those polled answered that they were afraid of being involved in an accident. Rather than pooh-poohing these fears, or dismissing them on the basis of the statistics which, it is true, do off er reassurance in terms of the safety levels today attained, let us consider them as a salutary reminder never to let up in our eff orts. Patrick CIPRIANI DSAC Director 2 3 DSAC - Activity report 2014 RESOURCES MANAGEMENT LEGAL ADVISER TRAINING AND SKILLS PURCHASING AND EXPENDITURE ORGANISATION CHART 18/05/ 2015 CABINET PRINCIPAL ADVISER Stéphane LE-FOLL Olivier HAMONIC Marie-Noëlle Angélica FRENCH WEST INDIES- Franck LAFAGE BRISSET SPAROSVICH FRENCH HUMAN RESOURCES FINANCES IT SYSTEMS MANAGER OVERSIGHT RESOURCES GUIANA DSAC TECHNICAL ADVISER DEPUTY & REGULATION MANAGEMENT CABINET Philippe COMMUNICATION Philippe PUSSET GUIVARC’H AND PUBLIC RELATIONS Fabienne GATALETA Jean-François Yannick ROBERT Marianne PHAM (Acting) BRYSBAERT Marc Florian Eddy DEPUTY BALLAND LINKE BAZILE Claude MIQUEL EUROPEAN COOPERATION AND SAFETY REGULATION CIVIL AVIATION PERSONNEL AIRPORT SAFETY OVERSIGHT RESOURCES STRATEGY & REGULATION MANAGEMENT CABINET CENTRE-EAST DSAC REPRESENTATIVE Philippe GABOULEAUD Geneviève MOLINIER TECHNICAL Frantz CHOUT Carole LENCK Agnès ADVISER Simon ANDRIEUX- Thierry Michel TO THE DIRECTOR BESSE PASTRE LEFÈBVRE HUPAYS Pascale ROBERT AIRCRAFT AND AIR OPERATIONS DEPUTY EUROPEAN SAFETY Patrice DESVALLEES OVERSIGHT ADVISER & REGULATION Georges THIRION Philippe AURADE Athis-Mons Lucette RESOURCES AIRCREWS LASSERRE MANAGEMENT CABINET NORTH DSAC (Acting) Jean-Claude ADVISER EXAMINATIONS MEDICAL OVERSIGHT Sylvie Lucette CAYE & REGULATION KHATIR LASSERRE Pierre BERNARD Roissy CDG Stéphane DEPUTY Martine CORBOLIOU Mireille CHABROUX René GERMA CORCOS Marie-Agnès GUYOMARC’H TRAINING, FLIGHT SCHOOLS DIRECTOR AND SIMULATORS LICENCES FLIGHT CREW ASSESSMENT OVERSIGHT RESOURCES Patrick CIPRIANI NORTH-EAST DSAC DEPUTY & REGULATION MANAGEMENT CABINET Yves-Marie Yves-Marie LE MAÎTRE Bruno HALLER Muriel BELZUNCE LE MAÎTRE Rémy Patrice Philippe Christian MERTZ MATHIEU NAAS MARTY AIRWORTHINESS AND AIR OPERATIONS AIRWORTHINESS ACCREDITATIONS OVERSIGHT RESOURCES AND MAINTENANCE SPECIALISTS AND TECHNIQUES AEROPLANE OPERATIONS & REGULATION MANAGEMENT CABINET INDIAN OCEAN DSAC DEPUTY DIRECTOR Thomas VEZIN Richard THUMMEL Sylvie MORALES Odile TOURRET (Acting) Dominique Victor Alain Lionel Gérard LEFÈVRE ESPERON KADILA CAILLABET MONTOCCHIO OVERSIGHT AIRWORTHINESS AND GENERAL OF INTERNATIONAL ACTIVITIES HELICOPTER OPERATIONS OVERSIGHT RESOURCES DEPUTY AVIATION CERTIFICATION/CONTROL AND OPERATIONAL QUALITY AND AERIAL WORK & REGULATION MANAGEMENT CABINET WEST DSAC ENVIRONMENT Gilbert GUICHENEY Cécile DU CLUZEL Jean-Pierre COORDINATOR HEADQUARTERS Maxime LECLERE Benoît PINON (Acting) DANTART Anne Stéphane Olivier Yves FARCY GORIN NEVO GARRIGUES LOCAL DEPARTMENTS AIRPORTS AND AIR NAVIGATION STAFF APTITUDE OVERSIGHT RESOURCES AIRPORTS FOR AIR NAVIGATION & REGULATION MANAGEMENT CABINET SOUTH DSAC Solenne QUALITY DE JULIEN - STANDARDISATION Valérie DE ZELICOURT Marc ALVAREZ Patrick CARIOU- Michel Georges Florence LEBLOND Frédéric MÉDIONI DISSET PILATE COSTE DESCLAUX CERTIFICATION OF AIR NAVIGATION AIR NAVIGATION SYSTEMS SERVICE PROVIDERS AND EQUIPMENT DEPUTY SOUTH-EAST DSAC Didier SERRANO PERFORMANCE OVERSIGHT RESOURCES Charles-Henri BLED Fanny TEJEDOR Nadine STRECHER & REGULATION MANAGEMENT CABINET Yves-Marie TATIBOUET Valérie FULCRAND- Fathi Sami SECURITY OPERATIONAL VINCENT BENKOULA HADJI SECURITY METHODS CONTROL ACTIONS DEPUTY Daniel BETETA SAFETY MANAGEMENT COORDINATION Cécile VERNHES Florence WIBAUX George WELTERLIN Thierry ALLAIN OVERSIGHT RESOURCES INFORMATIONS & REGULATION MANAGEMENT CABINET SOUTH-WEST DSAC SECURITY ACCREDITATIONS SYSTEMS SECURITY DEPUTY DEPUTY Anne FRISCH Christophe Anne Martial Fabienne Christophe MORNON BERTINETTI DUQUEYROIX Pascal REVEL HERLEDAN-REUMOND BRUNI-YAHIA Daniel CHARPENTIER 4 5 DSAC - Activity report 2014 SOME HIGHLIGHTS Symposium on fl ight Entry into force Professional elections crew training of “AIR-OPS” Voting in the professional elections for DGAC took place from 2 to 4 “Useful training: maintaining the Eff ective since 28 October 2014 December 2014, to renew the mandates of all the consultation bodies. skills of airline pilots” was the title for all public air transport opera- For DSAC, there was 84.77% participation, representing 996 voting of this 9th edition of DSAC safety tors by aeroplane and helicopter, members out of 1,175 registered: a remarkable participation rate, symposia, which took place on 11 the new European “AIR-OPS” regu- confi rming the excellent social democracy dynamic within the December 2014. This symposium lation is off the ground. Throu- oversight authority. formalised an increased aware- ghout the transition process, ness of the need to change the principles governing the training DSAC supported the operators and inspection of pilots, so that they are better suited to modern and organised for them, on 9 and “My microlight space” aircraft and may be targeted, for each airline, to the airline’s parti- 10 April 2014, in the presence of UAVs: cular safety needs. EASA and the Belgian authority, a fi nal seminar which included a briefi ng of the state of progress in a highly dynamic emerging market the process and an assessment of the current European regula- In the wake of national regulations initiated in 2012 and currently “Mon espace ULM” (“My microlight space”) was opened to the pu- ENAC/DSAC Agreement tion and the changes this involves. The main topics addressed re- being adapted to take account of the experience acquired over blic, enabling users to do the admin for their microlights online, lated to the training of fl ight crews, time limits for fl ights and ser- recent years, the development of the UAV business continues to Signed in early January, this agreement lays out the conditions of and the validity expiration date for ID cards was done away with. ID vices, the safety management system, etc. DSAC will continue to thrive, growing from 50 professional operators in 2012 to around collaboration between ENAC and DSAC, covering in particular avia- cards now have unlimited validity, with the introduction of the no- meet with the operators to discuss feedback and regulatory deve- 1,000 in 2014, operating some 2,000 drones. DSAC has been able tion courses and training. The development of a close partnership tion of acknowledgement