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Episode 01 9 min May 2026

What is ICAO?

The Chicago Convention. The agency it created. Why it still governs every international flight.

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Aviation Technology 10 min

Same Door, Different Rules

The Green Airlines walked the route to an Air Operator Certificate. Designing it from the Authority's side showed two things the story had wrong: the application starts in Economic Licensing, not Flight Operations, and it ends there too. And the five-phase shape that looked reusable is reusable only when the requirements are loaded from the regulation as data. One workflow, one form, a requirements pack per operator type, and a certificate whose name changes with the applicant.

Ahmed Saeed Sep 2026
Aviation Technology 10 min

Before You Write a Single Line

A civil aviation authority looks like a set of forms. It is not. Behind the simplest service — apply for a pilot license — sit seven questions the form never asks, and an Air Operator Certificate is an application that contains other applications. Part zero of a build series: what makes this domain genuinely hard, what came out of reading a national framework end to end and cataloging 257 real services, and the four things to have on your machine before the next article starts building.

Ahmed Saeed Sep 2026
Aviation Technology 25 min

Five Phases, Five Front Doors

Every civil aviation authority in the world runs air operator certification through the same five phases, because ICAO wrote them down and an inspector training course taught them to everyone. Not one of those authorities begins the process the same way. Six regulators, one applicant, four different ways in — and the design decision hiding behind all of them.

Ahmed Saeed Aug 2026

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About Aviation Affair

Founded by Ahmed Saeed — over thirty years across Saudi Airlines, the General Authority of Civil Aviation, the Aviation Investigation Bureau, and Saudi Aviation IT Co. Today a senior consultant at one of the largest business solutions companies in Saudi Arabia, and a certified Oracle APEX developer.

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