Stage: Final Publications

Regulatory Agency Final Publications

FAA Notice N_8900.585 Continuous Airworthiness Maintenance Program (CAMP) Guidance and Policy

This notice announces the establishment of Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Order 8900.1, Volume 20, Continuous Airworthiness Maintenance Program. This new volume will have an introduction followed by 10 chapters that will correspond with each of the Continuous Airworthiness Maintenance Program (CAMP) elements. Once established, guidance and policy will be migrated to this volume by following the Flight Standards normal revision and comment process. This notice extends the applicability of Notice N 8900.516, Continuous Airworthiness Maintenance Program (CAMP) Guidance and Policy, which expired on July 8, 2020.

FAA Notice N_8900.586 Operator Use of Engineering Change Authorizations (EA), Engineering Change Orders (EO), and/or Other Acceptable Maintenance Methods Applicable to Minimum Equipment List (MEL) Items

This notice provides guidance to Flight Standards Service aviation
safety inspectors (ASI) for oversight of an approved minimum equipment list (MEL) and MEL
management program. This notice extends the applicability of Notice N 8900.507, Operator Use
of Engineering Change Authorizations (EA), Engineering Change Orders (EO), and/or Other
Acceptable Maintenance Methods Applicable to Minimum Equipment List (MEL) Items, which
expired on April 9, 2020.

FAA AIR600-20-6F0-DM138 Deviation to FAA Order 8000.95, Designee Management Policy, and FAA Order 8100.15, Organization Designation Authorization Procedures, for January 1, 2021 through September 30, 2021 Designee Oversight in Response to the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency, and Ongoing Use of Remote Technology in Designee Oversight

This memorandum authorizes a deviation to individual and organizational designee oversight
requirements from January 1, 2021, through September 30, 2021, that cannot be met due to
widespread federal, state, and local government and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
(CDC) precautions taken to limit the spread of COVID-19. It also allows ongoing use of remote
technology by the FAA for purposes of performing individual and organizational designee
oversight and allows its use by Organization Designation Authorization (ODA) holders for
conducting on-site visits of inspection unit members.

FAA AC_20-185A

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EASA cm-ft-003_issue_01 Certification Memorandum Display of attitude at night for VFR approval in rotorcraft

The purpose of this Certification Memorandum is to provide clarification on the EASA certification policies
for night VFR approval of CS-27 and CS-29 rotorcraft. In particular, the objective of this Certification
Memorandum is to clarify how some of the most common failure conditions affecting attitude indications
need to be classified for rotorcraft to be approved for night VFR operations.

ED Decision 2021/001/R AMC and GM to Part 21 — Issue 2, Amendment 11

The European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) issues, as necessary, acceptable means of compliance (AMC) and guidance material (GM) to Annex I (Part 21) to Regulation (EU) No 748/2012 to illustrate the means for stakeholders to establish compliance with the Regulation or to illustrate the meaning of a requirement. These AMC or GM require regular amendments to take specific safety issues into consideration and introduce new or amend the existing acceptable means of compliance or procedures.
The objective of this Decision is to:

  • address a safety recommendation following an accident that occurred in Norway on 29 April 2016;
  • resolve certain recurrent implementation issues by improving the text of the AMC and GM to Annex I (Part 21);
  • leave no room for misinterpretation of the Regulation, as noticed during design organisation approval (DOA) holder initial investigations and surveillance activities, by including clarifications;
  • align the means of compliance with the current industry practices; and
  • remove unnecessary guidance material and correct typographical errors.

Decision 2021/001/R amends the AMC and GM to Annex I (Part 21) to Regulation (EU) No 748/2012.
The amendments are expected to increase the efficiency of implementing Annex I (Part 21) and ensure alignment with the current industry practices.