Role of Standard Operating Procedures in Ensuring Safe Air Travel

Flight Route
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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION ..........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY ..................................................................................................................................3
Introduction of ICAO..................................................................................................................3
Discussion on SOP's....................................................................................................................4
Discussion on requirement of SOP's for conducting safe aviation operations ..........................4
CONCLUSION ...............................................................................................................................6
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................7

INTRODUCTION
Since the innovation of sir travel various organizations have been created to facilitate safe
air travel at a regional national and international level. The present report provides brief
introduction of ICAO and discussion on role of standard operating procedures in ensuring safe
air travel.
MAIN BODY
Introduction of ICAO
International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) comes under the Unvitiated Nations
specialized agencies. The agency was formed in the year 1947 and is currently headquartered in
Montreal, Canada. It is an autonomous organization working with United nations by using co-
ordinating machinery of United Nations Economic and Social Council at intergovernmental level
and through Chief Executives Board of coordination at inter-secretariat level. It ensures safe air
travel and growth of the aviation sector by fostering planning and development of international
air transportation. In addition to this principles and methods of global air navigation are changed
by ICAO. The agency has 193 members which includes 192 UN members and Cook Islands. The
council of ICAO is created through an election in every three years which includes three groups
containing 36 members (Anderson, Fannin and Nelson, 2018) . Group consists of members with
high importance, group 2 consist of members who make large contributions while group three
consists of countries with geographical representation. Standardization of various functions of
the airline industry is conducted by ICAO such as the Aeronautical message handling system.
Each member country of ICAO is required to have Aeronautical information publication (AIP)
as per the standards of ICAO which contains information essential to air navigation. Member
countries are needed to update their AIP manuals after every 28 days and give information about
regulations and procedures about the airport and airspace of the country. ICAO issues airport and
airline codes along with published standards for machine readable passports. ICAO technology
standards provides information on emission limits of aircraft engines. This includes standards for
Hydrocarbons, Carbon monoxide, NOx, smoke and particulate mater (Damgacioglu, Celik and
Guller, 2018). In addition to this ICAO maintains standards for aircraft registrations including
alphanumeric codes for identification of the country in which the aircraft was registered. Aircraft
type designators are also issued by ICAO which are 2-4 alphanumeric characters.