Danial9874
2nd Mar 2023, 13:56
Hi guys,
I am very confused after reading about JAA and EASA.
From what I read, so currently there is no more JAA, and EASA had taken over JAA and EASA is the national authority for european countries?
Please help to explain their history (how EASA take over JAA) in layman terms :(
Thankyou very much
NutLoose
2nd Mar 2023, 16:48
read
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint_Aviation_Authorities
https://web.archive.org/web/20110629013950/http://www.jaa.nl/introduction/introduction.html
The JAA started as Joint Airworthiness Authorities in 1970. Original objectives were only to produce common certification codes for large aeroplanes and for engines in order to meet the needs of European industry and international consortia (e.g., Airbus (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airbus))
Basically every country had different rules, France would not except say a brake assembly made by one company, Netherlands would not accept say an autopilot system made by another company on their aircraft and the list went on, this meant Airbus would have to produce several versions of the same aircraft, different brakes for France, different Autopilot for the Netherlands.. none of them standardised and hence costing Airbus in their partners a fortune in producing different variants of the same aircraft, JAA standardised that so each country accepted a common standard of aircraft.. later as more parameters were added as to what JAA did they formed EASA to take over.