Aviation Safety Regulations Framework Flashcards

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With regards to WHS legislation requirements, what is Defence’s obligations?

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Defence has a moral and legal obligation to ensure risks to health and safety of personnel arising from military aircraft operations are eliminated or otherwise minimised SFARP

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Aviation safety is the state…

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in which risks to personnel arising from aircraft operations are eliminated SFARP and, if it is not reasonably practicable to eliminate risks to health and safety, those risks are minimised SFARP, through a continuing process of hazard identification and safety risk management

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What is the purpose of the Defence Aviation Safety Framework?

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The purpose of the Defence Aviation Safety Authority Regulatory Framework is to ASSURE adequate levels of safety while allowing operational commanders to exploit capability to the maximum possible extent

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What does the Defence Aviation Safety Framework comprise?

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Clear authorities and accountabilities, supported by a comprehensive Defence Aviation Safety Program (DASP)

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What are the 5 underpinning fundamental requirements of the Defence Aviation Safety Framework?

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  • Appointment of a Defence Aviation Authority (Defence AA)
  • Establishment of a Defence Aviation Safety Authority (DASA)
  • Implementation of a Defence Aviation Safety Program (DASP)
  • Promulgation of effective Defence Aviation Safety Regulations (DASR) to guide requirements of the aviation community
  • Establishment of an independent accident and incident investigative capability
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What are the key objectives of the Defence Aviation Safety Program?

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  • Prescribe safety policy and regulation for Defence aviation
  • Promote Defence aviation safety through education, training and dissemination of safety info.
  • Establishing and certifying the initial safety requirements and standards for Defence Aviation organisations and aviation platforms/systems
  • Oversight and enforcement of the ongoing certification of Defence aviation organisations and aviation platforms/systems
  • Investigation of accidents and incidents in order to prevent recurrence and improve safety performance
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What is DASA’s mission?

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To Support Aviation Commanders and assure a Credible and Defensible level of Aviation Safety

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What are DASA’s 7 directorates

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  • Defence Flight Safety Bureau (DFSB)
  • Directorate of Initial Airworthiness (DIA)
  • Directorate of Continuing Airworthiness (DCA)
  • Chief of Staff Directorate (COSD)
  • Directorate of Promotion, Engagement, Policy, and Safety Management Systems (DPEPS)
  • Directorate of Aviation Engineering (DAVENG)
  • Airworthiness Coordination and Policy Agency (ACPA)
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What does ASSURE mean?

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To do everything that you can in order to make certain something happens or to remove someones doubts.
In aviation safety domain: to assure aviation safety is to do everything from a program perspective to make sure safe aviation activities occur

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What does ENSURE mean?

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To ensure something is to make sure it happens or to guarantee it.
In aviation safety domain: to ensure aviation safety means to actually undertake the activities to guarantee that aviation operations occur at a level where risk is either eliminated or minimised SFARP

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What where some of the issues with previous Technical Airworthiness Regulations (TAREGs)

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  • Bespoke regulations for ADF aviation
  • Prescriptive regulations
  • No flexibility - has exemption regulations
  • Not able to readily support recognition of other airworthiness regulatory systems
  • Not reflective of contemporary best practice, and
  • Difficult to maintain
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Current DASR is based on industry best practice. It is widely accepted throughout regulatory communities that regulations should be Hazard and Outcome based. What do these terms mean?

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Hazard based - Focus regulation on safety hazards and remove regulation not related to safety hazards
Outcome Based - Focus regulation on the outcome needed to treat threats to safety and not the means to achieving the outcome

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What are some of the benefits of DASR?

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  • Based on ICAO prinicples
  • Hazard/outcome based
  • Inherent flexibility
  • Promotes interoperability
  • Designed for multi-nation adoption
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What are the DASR subsections?

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  • Initial airworthiness
  • Continuing airworthiness
  • Operations personnel
  • Air operations
  • Standard rules of the air
  • Air navigation services
  • Aerodromes
  • Aviation Safety Management Systems
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What are the 3 components that DASR contains

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  • Regulations
  • Acceptable means of Compliance (AMC)
  • Guidance material (GM)
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There are 2 main parts of the DASR, what are they?

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  • The Basic Regulation (BR)

- Implementing Regulation (IR)

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Basic Regulation (1 part of DASR) has what purpose?

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Allows Defence AA to;

  • provide direction to DASA and regulated organisations on the scope and objectives of DASR;
  • set common rules in the field of military aviation safety;
  • direct DASA to develop and maintain Implementing Regulations (IR) that amplify the operation of these common rules, within defined constraints provided in the BR
  • detail management requirements, relevant to most or all regulated organisations, rather than detailing such requirements in multiple IRs
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Implementing Regulation (1 part of DASR) has what purpose?

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Primarily, the regulated community (i.e. FAA) is required to comply with the IRs, whereas the BRs establish the requirements for the Regulator (i.e.DASA)

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The Initial and Continuing Airworthiness regulations, for the most part cover aviation maintenance and engineering requirements (originally detailed within TAREGs). These regulations are divided into the following subcategories:

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  • DASR 21 - Aircraft Design, Production and Certification
  • DASR M - Continuing Airworthiness Management
  • DASR 145 - Requirements for Maintenance Organisations
  • DASR 66 - Military Aircraft Maintenance Licensing
  • DASR 147 - Aircraft Maintenance Training Organisations