ICAO

International Civil Aviation

Organisation
Agenda
 Genesis
Why ICAO
• The world war era

The Chicago Convention, 1944

The Planning and Development of
International Air Transport
Safety is paramount
Headquarters at Montreal
• 190 Member States (June 2007)
 Structure
The governing body
• The Assembly
• The Council
• The Secretariat
The assembly is the sovereign body
• Comprises of all member states
Meetings
• Every 3 yrs, reviews policies and work done
• Votes a Triennial budget
 Structure (Contd.)
 Council member states under 3 basis
• States of chief importance in air transport,
• States which make the largest contribution to the
provision of facilities for air navigation,
• States whose designation will ensure that all
major areas of the world are represented
 Standards and recommended practices
 Assistance rendered by:
• Air Navigation Commission (Technical matters),
• The Air Transport Committee (Economic
matters),
• The Committee on Joint Support of Air Navigation
Services and the Finance Committee.
 The Secretariat
 Objectives
Standardization
Communicational navigational
surveillance/ air traffic
management
Regional planning
Facilitation
Economics
Technical Cooperation for
Development
 Law
 Strategic Objectives of ICAO
(2005-10)
 Safety - Enhance Global Civil Aviation Safety
 Security - Enhance Global Civil Aviation
Security
 Environmental Protection - Minimize The
Adverse Effect Of Global Civil Aviation On The
Environment
 Efficiency - Enhance The Efficiency Of
Aviation Operations
 Continuity - Maintain The Continuity Of
Aviation Operations
 Rule Of Law - Strengthen Law Governing
International Civil Aviation
 ICAO rules and regulations
 “The ICAO convention”- general rules
• 96 articles
 SARPs- standards and recommended
practices
• 18 annexes
 PANS-OPS- Procedure for Air Navigation
and Services
• Doc 4444- Air Traffic management
• Doc 8168- Vol I and II (Aircraft operations)
 Regional supplemental procedures
• Doc- 7030
 Simplified Distinction
 ICAO panel of teletypewriter, formulated and
assigned location indicators- 1957
 4 letter codes for Aeronautical Fixed
Stations… not airports
• Currently more than 12000 of these location
indicators
 Dividedinto AFS (Aeronautical Fixed Routing)
areas assigned separate identifying letters
• Non overlapping
• Irrespective of the state boundaries
 NNN, ZCZC cannot be used as they interfere
with the AFS
 I, J, Q, X remain unassigned
 AFS India
Four AFS regions
• Northern region- Delhi centre (VI)
• Eastern region- Kolkata centre (VE)
• Southern region- Chennai centre (VO)
• Western Region-Mumbai centre (VA)
That’s All ….. FOLKs

Thank you

1. Personnel licensing
2. Rules of the air
3. Meteorological services
for international air
navigation
4. Aeronautical charts
5. Units of measurement to
be used in air and
ground operations
6. Operation of aircraft
7. Aircraft registration and
regulation marks
8. Airworthiness of aircraft
9. Facilitation
ICAO Annexes
10.Aeronautical
telecommunication
11.Air traffic services
12.Search and rescue
13.Aircraft accident and
incident investigation
14.Aerodromes
15.Aeronautical
information services
16.Environmental
protection
17.Security- safeguarding
international civil
aviation against acts
of unlawful
interference
18.The safe transport of
dangerous goods by