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Obtaining your Cayman Island Article 85 Approval

To obtain your Cayman Article 85 Approval you will need to obtain a Certificate of Registration from the IBAC Standards Board. This entails: ‘Ordering IS-BAO’ (as it’s called on the IS-BAO website); getting your head around the Air Navigation (Overseas Territories) Order 2007; downloading and understanding Overseas Territories Aviation Requirements (OTARs) Part 13, Part 39, Part 61, Part 91, Part 125, Part 39 and even Part 1; downloading and understanding Overseas Territories Aviation Circulars, 13–1, 91–1, 92–1, 125–1, 125–2 and others.

You then have to write a manual that complies with OTAR Part 125 Part 125 operations. Caveat: you cannot just grab another airline’s JAR-OPS/EU-OPS Ops Manual Part A and change the name to your’s – the IS-BAO auditor will just laugh. Either separately (or within the manual), you must also include a Safety Management System, a Fatigue Management Scheme and an Emergency Response Plan.

What to do next?

Step 1: Contact AIT here. You will still have to ‘enrol’ with your local business jet organisation, but most of the hassle and aggravation will be dealt within.

Step 2: ‘Purchase IS-BAO’.

Step 3: Call AIT and we will discus the fee for writing your manual, which will include the SMS, FMS and ERP and guiding you through the rest of the process.

Order Forms

The IS-BAO can be purchased from your local business aviation association or an association of your choice. The list of Associations, their address and the price in your local currency is obtainable here.

What do you get when you purchase IS-BAO?

When you order IS-BAO, you will receive: IS-BAO standard in a 3-ring binder; Generic Company Operations Manual in the version of your choice; SMS Toolkit booklet; CD with the IS-BAO and four possible versions of the generic company operations manual, which will need extensive fleshing out after having fully understood the AN(OT)O, OTARs, OTACs, SMS, Fatigue Management etc etc.

Price

Member Companies: $950 USD (or equivalent in local currency); Non-Members: $1,400 USD (or equivalent in local currency).

Bermuda OTARS Operators Article 85 Approval

Fixed Wing and Rotary

The Bermuda DCA’s website is heavily biased towards obtaining an Article 85 Approval though IS-BAO. The thought of paying a manual audit fee of $1,500 for up to 10 days is clearly designed to deter the ‘do-it-yourself enthusiast’. However, on further research, you will find that if your manual is written by a ‘pre-approved Alternative Provider’, you will not have to pay this audit fee.

Many Bermudan operators have taken the independent non-IS-BAO path by having AIT produce their manual. The manual includes a Safety Management System and a Fatigue Management System (Flight Time Limitation Scheme) in accordance with the DCA requirements. The manual is not a one size fits all document, but is tailored to your requirements.

Some sections of OTAR Part 125 are vague; they state requirements but give no methods of compliance: how you comply with the requirements is up to you. AIT provides guidance, offers suggestions and can liaise with the DCA on your behalf.

Once your manual is written and you have obtained your Article 85 Approval, AIT will take the hassle of ensuring that the manual is kept up to date. We will monitor FARs, DoT Canada publications, EU/JARs, UK CAA FODCOMs and all the other sources used to produce the manual.

EU Emissions Trading System

If you are private operator that flies into Europe you must comply with EU Directive 2003/87/EC. AIT can reduce the hassle of your having to comply with EU’s carbon trading requirements. The directive may not be fair, but it’s not going away. If you ignore it, at worst you will receive a fine; at best you may miss some credits.

IBAC and IS-BAO

If you have no experience in operating under a high quality regulatory body such as the Bermuda DCA or have no experience of operating under anything higher than US 14 CFR Part 91, you will find membership of IBAC, through your local national association, very beneficial. Being an association of business and corporate aviation operators, they can provide a wealth of advice, making you safer. And if you decide to use IBAC’s prestigious IS-BAO Registration, AIT can write an Operations Manual that will satisfy their requirements.

Flight Planning and Performance

AIT has 30 years experience of flight planning within the Airline industry. During its first year of operations, we managed a European Low Cost Carrier’s computer flight planning system, produced and updated its Performance Manual and managed its aircrafts’ Flight Management System’s navigation database.

Flight planning

AIT specialises in the support of most of the commonly used systems for computer flight planning (Abacus, Jeppesen Jetplanner, Jeppesen Flite Star, Universal Weather). Our compliance background enables us to comply with worldwide (especially European) requirements.

Aircraft performance

AIT’s flight planning specialist is also a qualified performance engineer with a proven track record and ability to meet deadlines with extensive experience within the Low-Cost sector as well as legacy airlines. We’re highly experienced in Flygprestanda, Jeppesen OpsData, Universal Weather.

Flight Operations Audits

AIT’s team of Flight Operations Auditors (ex UK CAA and major UK Airlines) audits and provides advice that enables operators to comply with JAR-OPS/EU-OPS 1.035, Bermuda Part 125 and IOSA. We also complete Audit Programmes until operators can set-up their own in-house team. Additionally, we function as Independent Auditors to many clients. Quality Manuals and Flight Operations Audit Training are also provided.

Technical Publications

Captain Peter Magill and Marilyn Sharp our Technical Publications Director, have decades of experience writing CAA/JAA/EU and FAA compliant manuals. AIT also produces general information manuals and checklists, along with other flight deck documents such as Emergency Procedures, Security Procedures, Traffic and Ground Handling, Cabin Crew, and Cabin Services.

Forms, checklists and holiday brochures

As well as checklists, we provide clients with Cabin Safety Cards, Drop-down Weight and Balance sheets, Load Chits, Sector Record pages for technical logs, Journey Logs and a full range of training forms and certificates. Our graphic designer partners can produce anything from a cabin attendant’s baggage tag to a tour operator’s holiday brochure.

Electronic Flight Bags

Electronic documents mean less paperwork in cockpits and in our experience, that is a good thing to aim for. We work with an associate company that specialises in converting paper manuals to easy-to-use electronic documents, or web accessed information.

AIT will also produce ancillary items such as Normal Checklists, Drop-down Load Sheets, Load Information Forms, Voyage Reports, Technical Log Sector Record Pages, and if you still use them, paper airline tickets. We also produce Emergency Procedures, Security Procedures and general information manuals and the usual range of checklists and other flight deck documents customers require. We also work with an associate who specialises in converting paper manuals to easy-to-use web access documents.

AIT produces work to a high standard and has a proven ability to meet deadlines.

Maintenance and Continuing Airworthiness

AIT offers the following services:

– Establishment and supervision of engineering contracts
– Planning and preparation of engineering department budgets
– Analysis of the effectiveness of maintenance programmes
– Development and control of the CAME, MME, MOE and MCM
– Part 145, 66, M auditing
– Maintenance/Planning forecasting
– Contract and LOI negotiations
– Aircraft lease returns/deliveries
– Aircraft records auditing
– Part 145 Maintenance and Certification
– Part 21G Design Services
– Part M, Subpart G ＆ I
– ARC (Airworthiness Review Certificate) issue and renewal
– Aircraft import and export
– Aircraft pre buy inspections
– Check Management, liaison and material control.

Flight Technical

Master Minimum Equipment Lists

AIT writes and keeps it’s clients up-to-date with comprehensive Dispatch Deviation Procedures Manuals, which incorporate MELs and CDLs, for the following aircraft:

Special Rules Airspace · Low Visibility Procedures

As a writer of Operations Manuals, AIT is able to produce the briefing material and guidelines required for specialised procedures such as ETOPS, RNAV, MNPS, Low Visibility Procedures and FANS as well as explanations and examples for those who need to understand aircraft performance and flight planning.

Flight Operational Quality Assurance

Starting a FOQA system can be daunting and in the preliminary stage absorbs a lot of management time. AIT will help you chose the available systems and will run it for you or provide support, whichever you wish and to the extent that you require.

AIT is able to produce the briefing material and guidelines required for specialised procedures such as ETOPS, RNAV, MNPS, Low Visibility Procedures and FANS as well as explanations and examples for those who need to understand aircraft performance and flight planning.

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