Monitored environment for all samples
Combined airworthiness organisation
The Combined Airworthiness Organisation, or CAO for short, is an EASA-approved company for continuing airworthiness. In addition to maintenance, the CAO carries out annual airworthiness reviews and certifies this with an Airworthiness Review Certificate (ARC) and/or operates aircraft in the so-called ‘controlled environment’. The latter means that the CAO is responsible under aviation law for managing the continuing airworthiness of the aircraft. In our case, this includes gliders and motorised gliders.
Monitored environment
In our CAO organisation, you have the choice of presenting your aircraft for an annual airworthiness review (‘annual inspection’) or only every three years within our controlled environment. In the case of an annual inspection, you as the owner are responsible for maintaining airworthiness. This includes, among other things, compliance with due LTAs/ADs, monitoring of operating times, timely implementation of maintenance measures and keeping the L-file. In the case of the monitored environment, these tasks are performed by our CAO. All you have to do is inform us at regular intervals of the operating times of your aircraft. In return, we will inform you what is due in the near future, be it a 100 h check on the engine, an LTA/AD, a centre of gravity weighing, the replacement of seat belts or similar.
We have calculated the costs. Our controlled environment, in which we take responsibility for maintaining airworthiness for you or your club and you only have to present your aircraft for a physical airworthiness inspection every 3 years, is even more cost-effective than the annual inspection.
