Mumbai: While India’s attempts to strengthen the regulatory mechanism for safer civil aviation has won it plaudits from the Montreal-based International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO), the aviation body of the United Nations has also red-flagged the areas of aerodrome certification, foundation of state safety, performance-based navigation and high safety indexes.
The ICAO state safety briefing assessment of June 8 is based on periodic data submitted by the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA). The ICAO has found aerodrome standards to be unsatisfactory. India score 76.92% in the state safety programme, an integrated set of regulations and activities aimed at improving air safety.
On the scale of performance-based navigation, meant to ensure global standardisation of rules for landing of aircraft, India scored 7.69%. On high safety indexes, ICAO gave India 0 out of 3 for the areas of operations, air navigation and support.
As per the ICAO, safety indexes provide a risk-based prioritisation of operational, air navigation and support-related universal safety oversight audit programme (USOAP) areas. In each of the functional areas, a State is given a target effective implementation score, which is calculated based on a global linear regression of traffic versus effective implementation of all ICAO member states.
ICAO mandates that a state with a high safety index of over 1 would be considered to have sufficient regulatory controls in place to cover its existing traffic volume. A state with a low safety index below 1 would be considered to have an insufficient oversight system taking into consideration its traffic volume.
30/07/19 Aditya Anand/The Hindu
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The ICAO state safety briefing assessment of June 8 is based on periodic data submitted by the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA). The ICAO has found aerodrome standards to be unsatisfactory. India score 76.92% in the state safety programme, an integrated set of regulations and activities aimed at improving air safety.
On the scale of performance-based navigation, meant to ensure global standardisation of rules for landing of aircraft, India scored 7.69%. On high safety indexes, ICAO gave India 0 out of 3 for the areas of operations, air navigation and support.
As per the ICAO, safety indexes provide a risk-based prioritisation of operational, air navigation and support-related universal safety oversight audit programme (USOAP) areas. In each of the functional areas, a State is given a target effective implementation score, which is calculated based on a global linear regression of traffic versus effective implementation of all ICAO member states.
ICAO mandates that a state with a high safety index of over 1 would be considered to have sufficient regulatory controls in place to cover its existing traffic volume. A state with a low safety index below 1 would be considered to have an insufficient oversight system taking into consideration its traffic volume.
30/07/19 Aditya Anand/The Hindu
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