EU-ETS - SMS - IS-BAO - Air Safety Rules

EU-ETS - SMS - IS-BAO - Air Safety Rules
By Norwood A McDaniel
Who manages your flight department, pilots, your aircraft and are they incorporating the use of EU-ETS - SMS - IS-BAO? Do the rules they follow make passengers safe or simply create jobs? Politicians say rules create jobs. Actually the private sector generally creates jobs.
Aviation has been a magnet and dumping ground for excess rule making in the name of safety and political jabberwocky. Here is an example; "And when the final gleek was flort, Just two remained to zorch and vame, Which makes no diff'rence anyhow, 'Cause each one sounds the same!" by Alfred E. Neuman, Sounds regulatory to me.
Companies hire experienced personnel; aviation managers, chief pilots and pilots to manage and fly business aircraft. Qualified and highly experienced aviation personnel have a proven track record of safety and implementing best practices.
Bottom line, any outside group that impacts business aviation operations via regulatory (FAA), best safety practices (SMS, IS-BAO) or best green practices (EU-ETS) increases cost to aviation department operations. The increase in cost is derived by adding man hours and creating taxation schemes to comply with burdensome policies and regulatory enhancements. Theses man hour increases may be with existing personnel, sub-contracted with vendors or the need to hire additional personnel.
To staff business aircraft a minimum of two (2) pilots are required. With the onslaught of ETS - SMS -IS-BAO - Air Safety Rule enhancements, many aviation departments have or are considering dissolving, hiring a management company or perhaps joining a charter certificate holder. None of this may need occur if common sense would prevail as it has over the past fifty years.
Outside organizations are impacting on the bottom line expense of company's financial statements when these acronyms become policy and/or regulatory. Many company executives and admin departments thrive on polices and procedural protocol. When it comes to aviation the buy-in of SMS, ETS and IS-BAO is an easy sell. What is a sale? A sale is the act of selling a product or service in return for money or other compensation. Did the company receive a benefit with the purchase? Or did an employee full fill a policy check mark on an annual performance review? (This observation was from a previous corporate position I once held.)
Historically the United States has been a leader in regulatory design of best practices. A professional organization, National Business Aviation Association (NBAA), represents companies and associations aviation interest to congress and F.A.A. to enhance safety, reduce cost to owners, and implement best practices. This is one of many organizations fulfilling a purpose to enhance aviation safety.
When one examines historical aircraft accident statistics and evolutionary improvement of aircraft engine performance design and pilot training it appears a natural parallel improvement of safety and reliability has occurred organically without adding the burdensome acronyms.
Just what are these acronyms? EU-ETS has come home to roost within your aviation department by taxing engine carbon emissions. The International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) has recommended that all aviation authorities implement a path to an SMS structure. IS-BAO would like to audit your aviation department.
All three increase cost and may be one of the many straws that breaks the back of aviation job growth and future employment in the name of safe operating practices. All three require participants pay to play. Meaning if a business jet is to fly, ownership will need to pay a vendor or government agency or both to participate, use airspace for private air travel to perform business activities. An example of pay to play is the latest Obama administration plan to tax all business flights and other turbine-powered planes that use the U.S. air-traffic system an additional $100 per flight. Is this tax for increase services provided, an increase in operating expense, a fee for future investment or perhaps past misspending? Does the tax provide an immediate or future benefit to anyone? It appears this tax will be an impediment to aviation job growth.
The return/benefit on investment must be evaluated for its necessity and practicality for aviation departments to comply and survive in the years to come.
Aviation was a joy and rewarding to those that decided to make it their career of years past. One must ask are pilots and passengers better off now than in years past? This past decade aviation has become another we gotcha job do to the plethora of alphabet acronym intrusions.
Norwood McDaniel has traveled to most continents and countries. He manages business aircraft for a variety of clients at his company at http://www.airglobal1.com. You can contact him at managedaircraft@airglobal1.com to learn about professional aircraft management.
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