‘Chief of Flight Safety’ to ensure safety of airline operations: DGCA

With mishap investigations consistently pointing to recurring causal factors and systemic deficiencies wrong aviation operations, the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has directed hose operators to name a ‘Chief of Flight Safety’ to guarantee implementation of information protocols.

In a bid to forestall accidents oregon incidents, the aviation regulator asked the operators to acceptable up a dedicated ‘Flight Safety Department’ with capable fig of competent unit for promoting formation information and implementing accident/incident prevention programme. 

In addition, the operators shall nominate a ‘Deputy Chief of Flight Safety’. “It shall beryllium ensured that if Chief of Flight Safety is simply a pilot, the Deputy Chief shall beryllium an technologist and vice-versa,” the DGCA said.

Systemic deficiencies 

Explaining the necessity for creating specified posts, the DGCA said mishap investigations had consistently highlighted recurring casual factors and systemic deficiencies wrong aviation operations.

While specified investigations remained invaluable for incremental improvements, the scope for important information enhancement done reactive measures unsocial was limited. 

With the effectual implementation of a Safety Management System (SMS), the aviation manufacture had shifted from a reactive attack to a proactive attack which helped successful recognition of information concerns earlier they escalated into incidents oregon accidents. 

It was indispensable to integrate Safety Management System with the Safety Awareness and Accident/Incident prevention programmes, which established a structured model for continuous monitoring, evaluation, and betterment of operational practices. “To guarantee the highest levels of information successful craft operations, it is imperative that each relation instrumentality specified a programme,” the DGCA said.

Notifying the instructions arsenic a Civil Aviation Requirement (CAR) nether the provisions of Rule 133A of the Aircraft Rules, 1937, the DGCA said it would use to each operators engaged successful scheduled aerial transport services/cargo services/non-scheduled aerial transport services.

Investigation of accidents/incidents brought retired the deficiencies which had contributed to occurrences. Appropriate information measures could forestall akin occurrences. 

“Thorough probe of the accidents/incidents is precise indispensable not lone to find what happened but besides to find retired wherefore it happened. Organisational deficiencies and weakness successful the systems and policies should besides beryllium investigated,” the DGCA said. 

Safety civilization successful aviation

Calling for gathering information civilization successful the aviation sector, the regulator said operators should behaviour interior information audit of antithetic divisions specified arsenic operations, maintenance, crushed enactment among others. 

“Flight and Duty Time Limitations shall beryllium laid down for the operating unit to guarantee that the unit are not fatigued which whitethorn impact information of operations,” the DGCA said.