Recommendation Date
Recipient Name
CAA
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Require his Rules Rewrite Team to review the requirements for gaining an approval to conduct an air show to:
• Assign a CAA Officer to ensure the Organiser of any air show complies with the approval throughout the running of the event.
• Assign a CAA Officer to ensure the Organiser of any air show complies with the approval throughout the running of the event.
Reply Text
As outlined above the CAA is following a policy of setting standards that industry is required to observe. The Director will, of course, carry out inspections and audits in the interests of aviation safety as required by Section 15 of the Civil Aviation Act 1990 but this will not necessarily mean that a CAA officer will be present at each and every air show conducted to standards prescribed in a rule. There will probably be a rule requiring any person to notify the Director of their intention to conduct an air show so that arrangements can be put in place to monitor what happens, but the CAA does not propose to station an officer at the organiser's shoulder to oversee or direct what happens. The Civil Aviation Act 1990 (Section 12(3)) sets a clear policy that participation in the civil aviation system must take responsibility for their own activities.
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