The Responsibilities of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)
FAA is an independent national authority based in the United States that controls all civil aviation. Among its responsibilities include, controlling the commercial state transportation in America. It has the mandate of providing licenses to facilitate the launch of the commercial space facilities (James, 2013). FAA equally regulates the private launching of the space payloads.
The agency is also responsible for the development of air traffic control and navigation and ensuring their operation to accommodate both the military and civil aircraft (James, 2013). FAA runs flight service stations, airport towers, and air route control centers and thus are capable of designing traffic rules and ensuring their use in the airspace.
Additionally, FAA safeguards safety in America and globally by using its Flight Standard District offices that act to represent them. These offices are given the authority of ensuring aircraft maintenance, reporting accidents, and aircraft operation issues, air carrier certifications, and issuing aircraft permits (Yodice, 2011). They also establish standards that must be met during maintenance, operation, and manufacturing of an aircraft to ensure its safety
FAA also design and execute programs geared towards regulating the aircraft noise and other civil aviation environmental problems. The programs developed emphasize on the effects of noise, and they educate people on their plans for reducing them. They utilize websites like Noise Quest to inform the public. Among the noise control, measures they have in place include the use of quieter aircraft.
The identification and development of the civil aeronautics and the National Airspace System are also the roles of FAA (James, 2013). In their aim of offering the globally efficient and safest airspace, FAA has overhauled the National airspace to improve convenience and dependency in air travel.
FAA also plays a role of revoking the pilots’ certificates, issuing, and suspending them (Yodice, 2011). FAA has enforcements that ensure that all the pilots adhere to the Federal act and thus have the mandate to revoke or suspend their certificates.
The Responsibilities of European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA)
EASA is an agency founded in 2002 with the aim of improving safety in civil aviation by the implementation of the safety measures and rules. In a bid to ensure that the most effective safety and environmental protection standards are adopted universally, EASA responsibilities include offering expert opinions to the European Union (EU) on the development of new legislation. They provide basic regulations that improve safety in the EU aviation thus making it easier for the aviation industry to compete worldwide (Spekking, 2017). They also ensure that the new regulations towards innovation are adhering to safety requirements, for instance, the rules on drones.
EASA also develop, monitor, and carry out the safety rules in the aviation industry. They make sure that the aviation personnel, operators, and manufacturers poses uniform requirements thus enabling it to have an equal credit of the safety certificates. The agency even ensures that the inspections are done in the member states.
EASA is also responsible for carrying out the research and safety analysis. The agency certifies the aviation products and the institutions meant to offer them. They also design and implement a regulatory framework that can improve safety (Spekking, 2017). EASA have a yearly safety review grouped based on operations that give statistics on the America’s and the global civil aviation safety.
EASA also conducts type certification of components and aircraft. The certification is meant to show the airworthiness standard for the aircraft engine, model, aircraft type, and aircraft propeller. They also approve the institutions involved in the maintenance and manufacture of aeronautical products and those in design as a way of ensuring safety.
References
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Schout, A. (2008). Inspecting Aviation Safety in the EU: EASA as an Administrative Innovation?. European Risk Governance, 257.
Spekking, R. (2017). European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) - Mobility and Transport - European Commission. Mobility and Transport. Retrieved 20 January 2017, from https://ec.europa.eu/transport/modes/air/safety/easa_en
Yodice, J. (2011). FAA Enforcement - AOPA. Aopa.org. Retrieved 20 January 2017, from https://www.aopa.org/training-and-safety/pic-archive/faa-enforcement/faa-enforcement#introduction
