IAC REGULATIONS PREVENT FROM MODERNIZATION OF AIRCRAFT FLEET IT
ARMENIA: AVIATOR

Yerevan, August 17. ArmInfo. The Regulations of the International
Aviation Committee (IAC) prevented from modernization of the aircraft
fleet in Armenia, a well-known aviation worker Dmitry Adbashyan says
in an interview with "Iravunk" newspaper.

The IAC registration and certification rules Armenia has got are
contrary to the ICAO codes. "Once, we brought in two planes which we
failed to register. We asked IAC to register them. The ICAO codes did
not require certificate for registering such a brand but IAC claimed
one. By the way, one article of the IAC codes said that one should have
a certificate for registering such a plane while another article gave
the list of documents one should present to register it and there was
certificate mentioned in it. While the ICAO codes clearly said that
for having his plane registered an owner has just to prove that its
worthiness, with no certificate required," Adbashyan says.

Reference to the regulations of ICAO did not allow Armenian aviators
persuade IAC of the necessity of certificates for the purchased
planes. They in IAC stated that brand certification is necessary if
a company acquires more than 2 planes. ICAO has no such rule and in
Russia they invested it just to earn money. There are over 500 such
planes in the world, so, according to IAC, it is obligatory to have
their brand certificate.

IAC rules were very much different from the international standards
So, if there are so many contradictions between the IAC and ICAO
rules, which ones Armenia should adopt? "Of course, there are, and
we should adopt the ICAO rules," says Adbashyan. "IAC is no longer
effective. There is ICAO and we should cooperate with them and,
in some cases, with their European counterparts," says Adbashyan.

The point in this particular case is not so much if the pilots or the
planes were guilty for the Sochi and Irkutsk crashes. The point is
that IAC – who says that it is exclusively professional structure –
has allowed or, at least, has failed to prevent those cases from being
politicized. In the Armavia case, IAC has failed to professionally
substantiate its position and to prove that its findings are true. And
even if in this particular case IAC is professionally right and fair,
we can still see that it can no longer normally regulate its own
functions and decisions. This proves that it is stagnating, and not
only Russian but also our relevant authorities should do something
about it, "Iravunk" writes.