Overview
Participants will find on this page relevant course documentation for download, including PDF copies of the slide packs, and links to useful / relevant information and videos.
MASC Documentation
This section provides download links for all MASC course documentation, including:
- The PDF copies of the presentation slides
- End of day tests
Course Structure
- Day 1
- Welcome and Course Introduction
- Military Air System Certification Process (MACP) Essentials
- Introduction to Military Air System and Certification
- The Military Aviation Authority (MAA)
- Military Air System Certification Process (MACP)
- Content of the MAA Regulatory Publication (MRP)
- Military Certification Review Items (MCRI)
- Importance of Safety implications
- Relationship between Certification and the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974
- MACP Phase 0 – Planning
- Airworthiness and Type Airworthiness Strategy
- Type Certification Strategy
- Def Stan 00-970 – Air System Categories
- Type Design Definition
- Modification Classifications
- MAA and ‘DAT’ Form 30
- Required Levels of MACP Assurance
- Initial documentation
- Design Safety Target
- MACP Phase 1 – Organisational Approvals.
- Assuring organizational competence (MAA Approval Schemes)
- Letters of Endorsement and Airworthiness Authority (LoE and LoAA)
- Roles and responsibilities of key stakeholders
- Air System Delivery Team and Type Airworthiness Authority (TAA)
- Design Organisations
- Independent Evaluation and Audit
- Key functional roles (ADH Chain and RTSA)
- MACP Phase 2 – Type Certification Basis – (May roll over to Day 2)
- What is a Type Certification Basis (TCB)?
- Certification Specifications
- Establishing the TCB (New and change to Type Design)
- Understanding the Changed Product Rule
- Def Stan 00-970
- Alternative Certification Specifications
- Military configuration, Role and Environment (CRE)
- Tailoring, benchmarking and approval requirements for the TCB.
- Day 2
- MACP Phase 3 – Certification Programme
- Overview and content of the Certification Programme
- The Certification Schedule
- Certification Programme elements of the certification Log.
- Means of Compliance and Compliance Demonstration Items
- Military Permit to Fly (MPTF)
- Level of Involvement (LoI)
- MAA Certification Programme approval
- MACP Phase 4 – Demonstrate Compliance
- Compliance Demmonstration
- Type Certification Exposition (TCE)
- Air Engineers’ Toolkit (AET)
- Independent Evaluation
- Non Compliance Transfer of residual risk
- Air System Document Set (ADS)
- Instructions for Sustaining Type Airworthiness (ISTA)
- Release to Service (RTS)
- MACP Phase 5 – MAA Assurance of Certification Evidence and Certificate Issue
- Phase 5 process
- MAA Risk based approach to audit
- The Type Certification Report (TCR) and MACP Actions
- Release To Service Recommendations (RTSR) and RTSR Audit Report
- Output of a Successful MACP Application
- MACP Phase 6 – Post Certification Activities
- Post Certification Activities requiring MAA involvement
- Addressing MACP Actions
- Sustaining Airworthiness
- Summary Slides
Useful Links
Certification Glossary of Terms
Def Stan 00-970
