Aviation Technology
10 min
Who Are You, and How Do We Know?
You were asked to build Air Operator Certificate issuance, so you read the regulation and started sketching tables. Three weeks later somebody asks who submitted this application — and nothing you have built can answer. Regulations describe obligations, not systems. Four questions that sound too basic to ask, the requirement everyone signs off, and nobody can test, and the four government agencies your system has to ask rather than decide for itself.