The Air Charter Safety Foundation (ACSF) took center stage at the second annual NATA Air Charter Safety Symposium, held last month at the NTSB Training Center near Washington Dulles Airport, following its announcement that it finalized an agreement with Executive Jet Manage- ment (EJM) to conduct safety audits of the 80 vendor operators that provide supplemental lift for EJM. The foundation completed the last three beta test audits using the ACSF Industry Audit Standard (IAS) in December and will begin the EJM vendor audits this month.
The individual on-site audits will last two to five days, possibly more, depending on the number of aircraft each operator owns, according to Russ Lawton, the foundation’s director of safety. “EJM uses companies that vary in size from small to very large,” he said, adding that the ACSF plans to conduct the first 40 audits this year and the remaining audits next year. In addition to EJM, 10 other operators have expressed an interest in the IAS audit, Lawton said. The foundation has trained 20 auditors to date but plans to increase that number over the next year.
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