DGCA – INDIA SAFETY OVERSIGHT PROGRAMME 2018 DIRECTORATE GENERAL OF CIVIL AVIATION INDIA SAFETY OVERSIGHT PROGRAMME 2018 (Revision November 2018) (ANNUAL SURVEILLANCE AND REGULATORY AUDIT PLAN) 1 DGCA – INDIA SAFETY OVERSIGHT PROGRAMME 2018 FOREWORD India is a contracting State to the Convention on International Civil Aviation and a member of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO). DGCA India has an obligation to promote safe, orderly and efficient operation of Civil Aviation activities. To meet State obligations, DGCA has laid down national regulations to ensure compliance with various Standard and Recommended Practices laid down by ICAO in Annexes to the convention. The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) is a regulatory body dealing 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, Operations and Air safety. DGCA consists of Technical and Administration Directorates. Technical Directorates are; Airworthiness Directorate, Aerodrome Standards Directorate; Air Safety Directorate; Air Transport Directorate; Air Space &Air Traffic Management (CNS and ATM) Directorate, Flight Standard Directorate, Regulations and Information Directorate; Aircraft Engineering Directorate, Flying and Training Directorate, Cabin Crew Safety Division, Medical Cell and Dangerous Goods Division. Surveillance Enforcement Division (SED) in DGCA Headquarters is the office coordinating and consolidating the “DGCA Safety Oversight System”. DGCA Headquarters is located in New Delhi with Regional offices in the various parts of India. There are 14 (fourteen) Regional and Sub Regional Airworthiness Offices located at Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, Kolkata, Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Kochi, Bhopal, Lucknow, Kanpur, Patna, Patiala, Guwahati, and Bhubaneswar. 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 Bengaluru. Revision 1 of ASP 2018: After publishing the ASP 2018 revision 1 has been issued in June in order to include some of the supplementary surveillance programme received from different Directorates thereafter. Revision 2 of ASP 2018: Revision 2 of ASP 2018 is issued to revise the initial surveillance programme of Directorates which have been necessitated due to closure of some of the organisation or their non-functional status at present. Name of these organisations have been deleted from the initial programme by striking through their name .Further supplementary surveillance programme as received from various Directorates have been also included in the current revision. Medical Cell has also included their surveillance programme in the current revision of ASP. 2 DGCA – INDIA SAFETY OVERSIGHT PROGRAMME 2018 INDEX S. No. Content Page Number 1 DGCA Safety Oversight Programme for the year 2018 4-8 2 Details of Surveillance Plan 2018 9-11 3 List of Officers/Inspectors Carrying Out The Safety Oversight Checks 12-64 Surveillance Plan for the year 2018 4 Directorate of Airworthiness 65-224 5 Foreign MROs Inspections 225-231 6 Foreign Line Stations Inspections 232-235 7 Directorate of Aircraft Engineering 236-238 8 Directorate of Aerodrome Standards 239-243 9 Directorate of Air Safety 244-259 10 Air Space and ANS Directorate (CNS & ATM) 260-267 11 Directorate of Flying and Training 268-274 12 Flight Standards Directorate 275-292 13 Cabin Safety Division 293-300 14 Dangerous Goods Division 301-315 15 Medical Cell 316-318 15 Regulatory Audit Programme (RAP) 2018 319-323 16 Directorate of Aircraft Engineering (Regulatory Audit) 324-326 Other Checks 17 Quality Assessment Checks 327-328 18 Cross Regional Check 329-330 3 DGCA – INDIA SAFETY OVERSIGHT PROGRAMME 2018 The DGCA Safety Oversight Programme 2018 has been divided into 8 areas: 1. Surveillance Activities (Planned Inspection) 2. Regulatory Audit (Planned Audit) 3. SOFA 4. Spot Check (Unplanned Inspection) 5. Night Surveillance 6. Ramp Checks 7. Surveillance Of Foreign MRO and Maintenance Training Organisation(MTO)- 8. Inspections carried out under the directions of the DG. I. Surveillance DGCA has developed a system of surveillance to ensure continuing organizational, as well as individual, professional competency of license/rating/certificate/approval holders. The surveillance ensures the capability of an operator to ascertain an acceptable level of Safety in the area of Civil Aviation. Surveillance provide essential information of the State of compliance of organization and individual participants, identifying any corrective action needed to bring performance up to the required level. Surveillance aims to identify and correct non-compliance behaviours 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 and facilities for which an aviation document is required by the Aircraft Rules to operate in the civil aviation system).Surveillance of each area on an approved organisation shall be covered within 24 months. Note: During the surveillance of line maintenance at out station, the facility of AFS at that location may also be inspected 4 DGCA – INDIA SAFETY OVERSIGHT PROGRAMME 2018 Surveillance Programme for the aviation activities for the operator/organization shall be complied as per the ASP. 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, as per procedure manual of directorates 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 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 operationalized the Annual Surveillance Programme (ASP) of 2017 successfully, carried out number of surveillance inspections and detected number of Level 1 and Level 2 deficiencies. 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 2009 to2017 and comprises of all Directorates. Further DGCA also analysed the field data/ discrepancies reported during past surveillance activities. DGCA also identified the weak areas of the operators and the areas of concern. The results of the analysis has been incorporated for the development of new ASP 2018.The Programme has been developed after taking into account the available resources in the organization. A monthly Programme of Surveillance is also prepared, which covers all Schedule/Non Schedule/ Private Operators/ General Aviation Organizations/ State Govt. Aircraft and their operations/ Oil companies and also Safety Assessment of Foreign Airlines. DGCA officers from Regional and Sub regional offices shall carry out night surveillance for Schedule/Non Schedule operators every month as required. Surveillance Inspection of Foreign Airlines shall be jointly carried out by inspectors from Flight Inspection Directorate and Airworthiness Directorate as per the monthly Programme. Surveillance Division will co-ordinate in this matter. A monthly progress report on ASP will be submitted by all the Regional Offices (including their Sub-Regional Offices) to their respective Directorates in Headquarters by 10th of the following month on prescribed proforma. All Directorates at Headquarters shall send report to Nodal Officer of SED by the 15th of the following month in the form of Table A, B1, B2, B3, B4, C, E & F the format of these tables are given in Appendix A of SPM. A monthly review of ASP will be held at a date specified by DGCA, wherein monthly progress, shortfalls against monthly targets will be analysed by DGCA along with analysis of identified deficiencies categorized into level-I &level-II. All level-I deficiencies will be further 5 DGCA – INDIA SAFETY OVERSIGHT PROGRAMME 2018 analysed in the subsequent Board of Aviation Safety (BFAS) meeting which is being conducted time to time in DGCA Hdqrs. These deficiencies will be fed into the ASP Data Pool for resolution, tracking and dissemination of safety related issues. Director General (CA) appeals to all officials of DGCA and the stake holders to participate in the surveillance programme in a constructive and positive manner so that regulation are strictly compiled with there by contributing over all aviation safety. It is expected that by collective endeavour