Are you an Approach Procedure Designer (APD) authorised by the UK CAA
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Are you an Approach Procedure Designer (APD) authorised by the UK CAA
As part of a wind farm project I am undertaking I need advice from an Approach Procedure Designer (APD) authorised by the UK CAA. Does anyone know one ?
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NATS took over procedure design from CAA (DAP) about 10 years ago and also design procedures for MOD.
LadyAtco, you will find what you need here.
And, presumably, for all of the aerodromes where NATS does not provide ATS....whether they want it or not. I think not, my good man.
LadyAtco, you will find what you need here.
LadyAtco, you will find what you need here.
The question is, whereas the CAA can regulate NATS, who regulates these other companies? The Secretary of the UK Flight Safety Committee told me years ago that (for instance) Jeppesen designs were not regulated by anybody although this may have changed now.
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The CAA (SARG) regulates all the APDs extremely closely; an organisation doesn't get CAP 785 Approval without having gone through a very rigorous audit/approval process that is repeated periodically. Each individual design also has to be reviewed and Approved by SARG prior to promulgation in the UK AIP whomsoever produces it e.g. Jeppy.
I think the point you’re referring to is the reproduction of the charts - by the likes of Jeppy - in their Flight Information products that can be an interpretation of that promulgated in the UK AIP.
A bigger cause for concern in this RNAV/PBN world is the dearth of regulation applicable to the database coding houses.
I think the point you’re referring to is the reproduction of the charts - by the likes of Jeppy - in their Flight Information products that can be an interpretation of that promulgated in the UK AIP.
A bigger cause for concern in this RNAV/PBN world is the dearth of regulation applicable to the database coding houses.
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Chevvron, the CAA regulates all procedure design companies for the official, AIP plates. If third party companies then take that published data and supply it in a different format, to airlines for example in the form of EFBs, then that is not regulated by the CAA.
