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EASA Update on the SIASA project

4th Steering Committee Meeting

Yves Koning

17 December 2014, Brussels, Belgium

This project is funded by the European Union

Work Plan

Assistance to specific States

Activities on regulation and guidance material

Workshop organisation

Training activities

Organisational activities

17/12/2014 AFI Aviation Safety Symposium 2

1. Assistance to States (1/2)

Selection methodology agreed upon during the last Steering Committee Meeting

States selected

• Sierra Leone

• Congo (Brazzaville)

• Mozambique

• Guinea (Conakry)

• Liberia

• Benin

All the states contacted as well as the RSOO

• Received commitment from 5 States

• Received formal commitment from BAGASOO and COSCAP-SADC


1. Assistance to States (2/2)

Ebola crisis outbreak affecting 3 of the 6 states

Request for next 3 states to be targeted

• Swaziland

• Gabon

• Chad

Need the SC approval

First missions to take place Q2 2015


2. Regulation and GM (1/2)

PANS-OPS procedures approval

• WG members: Cameroon/Kenya/Mauritania/Nigeria

• First meeting took place in September 2014 in Dakar, Senegal

• Second meeting scheduled for Q1 2015

• A third meeting is foreseen for 2015

• Activity carried out in liaison with AFPP (WACAF)

Flight Ops Inspectors Manual

• Cancelled activity

• ICAO published document is acceptable

(Air Operator Certification and Surveillance Handbook)


2. Regulation and GM (2/2)

Air Navigation Services

•WG members: Burkina Faso/Chad/Congo/Côte

d’Ivoire/Comoros/Congo/Gabon/Mauritania/Senegal

•First meeting took place end September 2014, in Dakar,

Senegal

•Second meeting took place last week

•Translation done by the European expert – No translation

budget needed


3. Workshop

International Cooperation Forum(4th edition)

• 10 and 11 June 2014, Cologne, Germany

Airworthiness (new tech. aircraft)

• 22 and 23 September 2014, Windhoek, Namibia

• May be organised again late 2015 if money available

Certification of ATO

• Second semester 2015

• Contacts with AATO and ICAO initiated


4. Training (1/3)

Train the trainer in OPS

• Organisation within the AFI plan framework not

possible (training material not yet available)

• Opportunity offered by DGAC France

• 4 seats in a course organised for their own inspectors

• Beneficiary countries selected in coordination with DGAC

France (Cameroon, Côte d’Ivoire, Madagascar & Mauritania)

• Additional availabilities possible in 2015 (6 seats)

• In liaison with ICAO Montreal for a Train-Instructor-Course (TIC) in 2015 for the highest

potential trainees


4. Training (2/3)

Air Operator Certificate - Operational Specifications Approval

• BAG: Accra, Ghana - Feb 2014

• ECCAS: Douala, Cameroon – March 2014

• EAC: Entebbe, Uganda - Sept. 2014

• SADC:

• Gaborone, Botswana – Oct. 2014

• Lilongwe, Malawi – Oct. 2014 (in coordination with IASOM project)


4. Training (3/3)

Human Factors

• SADC: Manzini, Swaziland – Nov. 2014

• UEMOA: Lome, Togo – March 2015

• BAG: Q2 2015

ANSP Oversight

• Once the regulation is available

• Q2 2015 for first 2 training sessions in French

• Q4 2015 for the last 2 training sessions in English


5. Organisational issues

SOFIA implementation

• Series of missions already carried out in Eastern and Southern

Africa

• Western Africa Q2 2015

ECCAIRS assistance

• Coordination with AFI-Plan activities

• First activities Q2 2015

RSOO organisational assistance

• SASO Financial Sustainability meetings (Oct & Nov 2014)

• WACAF-Airbus seminar Jan. 2015

• SAFA/TCO workshop for SADC (May 2015)

• Other RSOOs can request activities


Communication & Visibility

One newsletter since the last SCM

Website

http://aviation-africa.eu/

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This project is funded by the European Union

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