The Regional Aviation Safety Oversight System of

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The Regional Aviation Safety Oversight System of
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RASOS REGION
Belize
Guyana and Suriname
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RASOS Members

• Barbados
• Belize
• Guyana
• Haiti
• Jamaica
• OECS
• Suriname
• Trinidad and Tobago

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VISION STATEMENT

• To lead the way in developing the frameworks that
  will advance the safety of air transportation in
  our Member States.

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RASOS MISSION STATEMENT

• To support the ACAAC aviation safety vision
  through a Regional Aviation Safety Oversight
  Organization delivering training, technical
  assistance, harmonized safety rules and
  standards, monitoring of member states safety
  organizations and promotion of safety awareness.

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RASOS

• Operates under direction of General Board and
  Directors.
• Develops and implements cooperation in all areas
  of civil aviation safety.
• Facilitates sharing of expertise, resources,
  information.
• Harmonizes standards, guidance material,
  training, inspection procedures and forms.

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RASOS

• RASOS Coordinator Office located in Kingston,
  Jamaica
• Budget and work plan approved.
• Interim Coordinator in place.
• Eventually a three person office.
• Focal points Jamaica inspector training,
  Trinidad security training Barbados ATC
  training.

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RASOS

• Technical cooperation
• inspectors OJT in audit procedures
• A340 certifications and A340 A320 safety
  oversight
• audit management
• in the early start up stages, showing signs of
  success and acceptance

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RASOS

• Administrative and Financial Arrangements
• travel support from airlines
• agreement on funding formula
• donor State assistance
• IDB-MIF security assistance
• incremental cost allocation formula
• possible UK CAA technical participation

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RASOS

• DATABASE AND PLANNING
• survey of workload, resources and skills
• identify ideal resource levels in RASOS
• identify training needed
• provide training
• retain training skills

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RASOS Approved projects

• Personnel licensing
• aerodrome certification
• inspector training in region
• harmonize forms
• harmonize standards and guidance material
• develop audit group
• develop incident and accident investigation group

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RASOS Budget Work Plan

• RASOS Office estimated annual operating costs
  approximately USD 350-400K
• Various approved projects estimated USD288K
• Personnel Licensing computer project estimated
  USD 93K
• Security projects to be developed
• Aerodrome certification project to be developed

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RASOS TRAINING

• Audit procedures
• Personnel licensing, aircraft registration,
  special aviation events, sport aviation
• Dangerous Goods
• Aerodrome certification
• Supervised OJT
• Security (presently only through national
  administrations)
• TRE/IRE/DFTE (to be developed)

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RASOS Whats Next?

• Start workload and skills analysis early November
  2002, end late December 2002
• Staffing RASOS Office January 2002
• Coordinator Visits
• Donor funding
• Donor State technical experts
• Office space, equipment, housing, work
  assignments for technical experts

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• Thank you!