AFS 800 0478

[Richard]

Who is AFS 800 0478 and how does P-8740 differ from Advisory Circulars (General Subject Number 00 as example)?

Basically, let's have the poop on the Accident Prevention Program.

 

[poadeleted20]

AFS-800 is the General Aviation and Commercial Division of the Flight Standards Service.


The General Aviation and Commercial Division is responsible for:

• Being the aviation community's national focal point for general aviation issues
• Part 125 operations, including travel clubs
• Part 141 Pilot Schools
• Regulations and policy governing the certification, inspection, and surveillance of general aviation pilots and flight instructors
• Sport aviation
• The commercial operations of rotorcraft external load operators, agricultural operators, corporate operators, and industrial operators such as those involved in helicopter logging operations
• The FAA's Aviation Safety Program

See http://www.faa.gov/about/office_org/headquarters_offices/avs/offices/afs/afs800/ for details, but among other things, they make the rules on how the FSDO's and Inspectors do their jobs (and what those jobs are). And the "Accident Prevention Program" was renamed the "Aviation Safety Program" about 15 years ago, and morphed into the "FAA Safety Team" concept about two years ago. For more on that, see http://www.faasafety.gov/default.aspx.

 

[Richard]

Ron, thank you. I knew I could count on you.