On 27/04/2012 1:54 AM, [email protected] wrote:
The South African based manufacturer has circumvented this process by
'certifying' his glider in Africa. This, of course, is nowhere near as
costly, time consuming and rigerous as EASA and FAA certification.
Consequently it reduces the costs for putting a new aircraft on the
market quite considerably.
It is also unclear to me how such matters as ADs or other service
difficulties are promulgated and efficiently dealt with
The point I'm trying to make is that an African certification is not
recognised in other parts of the world. It is my understanding that
forign certifications can only be recognised by GFA and/or CASA if
they are either issued by EASA and/or FAA. Therefore I'm still unsure
how such aircraft can be legally operated in countries like Australia.
Can anyone enlighten me, please?
Bernard
Bernard and others
The Republic of South Africa is a signatory state to the International
Convention on Air Navigation (i.e. a member of ICAO the International
Civil Aviation Organisation). As such it uses processes accepted by all
other ICAO member states for matters such as certification, registration
and flight crew licensing. Hence a South African pilot flying a South
African registered aircraft may fly into other ICAO countries without
hindrance.
Provided the certification standard used is compliant with ICAO Annex 8,
other member countries are bound to accept it. Of course, CS-22 (the
EASA glider standard) is so accepted, and continuing airworthiness
control is implied in the certification. So too are the older OSTIV and
BCAR Section K standards.
Australia will AUTOMATICALLY accept type certification by 7 or 8
worldwide regulatory authorities for the issue of an Australian
Certificate of Airworthiness. The EC (EASA) and USA (FAA) are two of
these, as are the UK, Sweden, New Zealand and Canada. An aircraft with a
type certificate issued elsewhere can be issued an Australian type
certificate after the standards and processes used for its
country-of-origin certification have been verified - usually a desk-top
exercise and probably not too difficult in the case of South Africa as
they are generally regarded as a "Western" nation using standardised
processes.
There should be no difficulty other than usual bureaucratic delays due
to workload and too few people working on it to the GFA being allowed to
issue an Australian C of A to a South African-designed glider. They do
this as a delegate of CASA, but CASA does the type acceptance and then
hands on the less complex tasks.
Wombat
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