Safety case for commercial ops outside CAS
SRG has just issued a FODCOM which "recommends" that any commercial operator wanting to start regular pax services to an airport outside CAS "should" prepare a safety case and have it approved by SRG. It includes all kinds of stuff including routes, IAPs, availability of navaids including radar. Seems a bit late in the day given that there are lots of these operations going on already, and there seems to be no requirement in the FODCOM for established ops to airports outside CAS to prepare a safety case in order to continue their operations.
Implications of this for ATC would seem to be that they will have to provide all kinds of data to prospective airline operators before they get approval to start new services.
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