Program Update Issue 3 April 2012 BARS Managing Director Inside this issue: Update The first quarter of this year has ARM3 and TAC7 2 certainly been a busy period for the BARS Program. Whilst a number of new audits have been conducted, we have The 2012 Calendar— 2 also seen a number of recurrent audits Upcoming Events Greg Marshall presenting at Aeromed Africa Conference. undertaken. operators within this sector who also provide We have released version 4 of the BAR Standard services to the mining industry. Auditor Accreditation 2 that incorporates provisions for Aero-medical Course, Melbourne operations, principally in support of the resource Finally, I visited Yellowknife in the far north of sector, and for the use of night vision goggles. To Canada and met with some of the operators coincide with the release of the new Standard, a there who have undergone a BARS audit. It was The Current List of 3 new checklist has also been uploaded. The new particularly enlightening to understand some of Aircraft Operators Standard can be found on the Foundation’s the challenges that they face in such a remote who have undergone website at www.flightsafety.orgbbarsbbar- and cold climate. My thanks to those operators BARS Audit standard. for their hospitality at short notice. I will provide some further insight into remote operations from Current BARS Statistics 4 During March and April we were able to deliver this location in the next edition. presentations on the BAR Standard Program and Following on from these visits we anticipate Aviation Coordinator training at a number of running some AVCO courses in both Vancouver conferences. These included the inaugural and Yellowknife in coming months. If anyone is Where can you learn 4 Aeromed Africa conference held in Cape Town interested in attending, please contact us here at more about BARS? and the CHC Safety and Quality Summit held in [email protected] Vancouver. I attended the FSF annual Corporate Aviation BARS Member 4 Safety Seminar (CASS) in San Antonio, Texas, Organizations which is a forum that examines safety matters of Greg Marshall interest within business aviation. At this Seminar Managing Director I was able to address some queries from BARS Program About the BAR 4 Standard ‘There are two critical points in every aerial flight- its beginning and http://www.icao.int/Meetings/BaliRRSS its end’ The International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), in partnership with the DGCA Indonesia, the Flight Safety Foundation (FSF) and the Association of Asia Pacific Airlines (AAPA), invites its Member States, - Alexander Graham participants, sponsors and exhibitors to the Asian Pacific Runway Safety Seminar in Bali. The Bell, 1906. conference will feature a session for small operators on introducing Safety Management Systems to their operation. The session is designed to be practical and will provide some tools on risk management that operators can take with them for ready application. Be part of an important regional event that will bring together experts from diverse professional domains to promote a multidisciplinary approach to improving runway safety outcomes in Asia-Pacific. The BARS Auditor Recurrent Page 2 ARM3 AND TAC7 Training has been released which was discussed at the ARM3 and TAC. The Recurrent Training is a computer based training (CBT) package embedded in BARSoft that The third Audit Review Meeting provides both training and testing of the candi- date auditor. The CBT will be used for future Audi- (ARM3) was held in Brisbane, tor training courses in the conduct of the final Australia in conjunction with the exam. The 2012 Calendar: Technical Advisory Committee (TAC7) With the release of BARSoft Version 2 in February, AVCO Courses: meeting over the period 19-20 March the ARM3 was a good opportunity to review the May 3 & 4 2012—Perth, new features and discuss even further 2012. Australia enhancements in the ARM3 was well attended by the accredited Audit pipeline for BARSoft. June 2012—Brisbane, ‘The Audit Australia Companies and created an opportunity to discuss many of the current and future aspects of the The ARM3 utilised Quality July 2012—Cairns, Australia Program. The action items resulting from the pre- pre-read material for all Assurance the attendees to assist October 2012—Dubai, vious ARM2 were reviewed and further items program has with a thorough and United Arab Emirates added for the BPO to work on. With the Program now gathered now in a mature stage and seeing the first flowing meeting. This valuable data to TBA 2012—Adelaide, same pre-read was tranche of AOs currently undergoing their first recognise areas Australia provided to the TAC for renewal Audit there was some valuable data on for TBA 2012— Vancouver, the performance of the Program to review. This review and ratification on important changes to the improvement’ Canada review covered the status of non-conformity close out, submission and release of reports and the program. This process will TBA 2012—Yellowknife, spread of the Audits throughout the year. be used for further meetings. Canada The Audit Quality Assurance program has now The next ARM4 is scheduled to be held in conjunc- gathered valuable data to recognize areas for tion with the FSF 65th IASS and TAC8 in Santiago For those wishing to improvement covering audit checklist design, AC enquire about all courses, operating procedures and Auditor training. Chile in October 2012. please visit our website: http://flightsafety.org/bars Or email [email protected] Auditor Accreditation Course, Melbourne +61 1300 557 162 phone +61 1300 557 182 fax The first BARS Auditor Accreditation The high experience and standards demonstrated Follow us on twitter course for 2012 was held in the throughout by the attendees again resulted in all attendees passing the course with flying colours. @fsfBARS Melbourne BARS office boardroom over 21 and 22 February 2012. Further courses will be made available as the demand for BARS auditors increase and the venue will be determined by the auditors that apply to The course was attended by ten candidates, one from South Africa and nine from Australia. undergo training. George Snyder and Graham Rochat presented the To find out when and where the next BARS Auditor Star Ratings course in our own office facilities and the attendees were therefore able to have the added Accreditation Course is check out the website In future months, we will be benefit of meeting the rest of the staff and www.flightsafety.orgbbars introducing a new star interact with them during the two days onsite. system for Aircraft Opera- tors to identify their level of Once again, as with previous courses, course class To express your interest in doing a course please accreditation. This will be participation was very lively with professional email [email protected] from 1 through to 5 stars. interaction throughout. For example, an operator Due to the feedback received from who currently achieves a this and previous courses green report status will consideration is being given to likely achieve a 3 star rating. increasing the duration of the Once this is further refined, course from two days to three days notification will be sent out in order to allow for more course to all aircraft operators material to be discussed and also to providing policy details of allow sufficient time to be made the new accreditation available for the online system. demonstration of the software system, BARSoft. List of Aircraft Operators who have Undergone a BARS audit Page 3 Air Operator Air Operator AUSTRALIA AFRICA Allegiance Air Pty Ltd Advance Aviation Group Ltd Anglo Operations Limited Air Pioneer Afrijet Business Service Airnorth CemAir Alliance Airlines ExecuJet Bristow Helicopters Australia Everett Aviation Charter Limited Direct Air Charter International Aircraft Services Ltd Central QLD Aviation Pty Ltd Medair Charter Pty Ltd CHC Helicopters (Australia) National Airways Corporation Pty Ltd Corporate Air Proflight Commuter Services SKA South Africa Aircraft Leasing Pty Ltd Execujet Australasia Sahel Aviation Service Executive Airlines Solenta Aviation Fugro Spatial Solutions Springbok Classic Air Pty Ltd Heli-Charters Australia Starlite Aviation Operations Pty Ltd Helicorp Pty Ltd Swift Flite Pty Ltd Heliwest Group CANADA Karratha Flying Services Air Tindi Ltd Cobham Aviation Services Arctic Sunwest Charters First Air Network Aviation Australia Great Slave Helicopters Ltd Pel-Air Aviation Pty Ltd North-Wright Airways Ltd Polar Aviation Northwestern Air Lease Ltd Skippers Aviation Pty Ltd SOUTH AMERICA/ CARIBBEAN Skywest Airlines (Australia) Pty Ltd Aerocardal Limitada Southern Cross Jets Aerovias Vecchiola QantasLink DAP Helicopteros S.A / Aerorescate Vincent Aviation (Australia) Pty Ltd EcoCopter S.A. Virgin Australia Airlines Ecocopter Peru S.A. Helicopters.cISpA Whitsunday Helicopter Group Pty Ltd Inaer Helicopter Chile S.A. PACIFIC Lider Taxi Aereo S/A Brasil Airlines PNG National Helicopter Services Ltd Air Niugini Limited Searca S.A. Heli Niugini Limited Servicios Aéreos De Los Andes SAC Helicocean INDONESIA Helifix Operations Ltd National Utility Helicopters Hevilift Limited Nyaman Air Travira Air Island Hoppers EUROPE Pacific Helicopters Limited Bond Offshore Helicopters UNITED STATES Heli Union S.A. Cutter Flight Management Inc OMNI Aviação e Tecnologia NetJets Aviation Inc Zimex Aviation Ltd ASIA Awan Inspirasi Sdn Bhd Aircraft Sales and Services Ltd (ASSL) Issue 3 April 2012 Page 4 Where can you learn more about BARS? Aviation Logistics & the Resource