If the FAA’s crackdown on charter operational control has taught operators anything, it’s that the number of compliance items that a Part 135 certificate holder must monitor, manage and triple-check has exploded. To help charter and even Part 91 and fractional operators meet all the requirements to ensure a flight is legal, the National Air Transportation Association (NATA) has developed a new Web-based software program call IC Check (in-compliance check).
For general aviation operators, IC Check is like an airline’s pre-release package, which is delivered to pilots before they take off. Under Parts 135 and 91, four fundamental criteria must be met for any flight to be legal, according to Dennis Keith, president of charter company JetSolutions, of Richardson, Texas. “It’s the ability of an air carrier to demonstrate that it can present a legal airplane, crew, flight and passengers,” he said. “It’s easy to let things slip through the cracks.” Too much information is on separate pieces of paper, and operators often have to dig through different piles to make sure a flight is legal, he said. “You don’t have to do that with IC Check.”
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