Joby Aviation receives FAA Approval for Part 141 Flight Academy

Cal­i­forn­ian-based Joby Avi­a­tion announced this week it has received a Part 141 cer­tifi­cate from the Fed­er­al Avi­a­tion Admin­is­tra­tion (FAA) for its flight acad­e­my as well as accep­tance for its air oper­a­tions vol­un­tary Safe­ty Man­age­ment Sys­tem (SMS) as estab­lished under Part 5, reports a press release.

The release explains, “The FAA Part 141 cer­tifi­cate enables the Joby Avi­a­tion Acad­e­my to deliv­er stream­lined pilot train­ing, enabling the Com­pa­ny to effi­cient­ly and eco­nom­i­cal­ly devel­op a pipeline of qual­i­fied pilots in advance of com­mer­cial air taxi oper­a­tions.”

It con­tin­ues, “As Joby pre­pares to launch com­mer­cial ser­vice, future avi­a­tors will be able to enroll in Joby Avi­a­tion Acad­e­my’s full com­ple­ment of cours­es, which will include pri­vate pilot, instru­ment rat­ing, com­mer­cial pilot, and cer­ti­fied flight instruc­tor, in prepa­ra­tion for a career at Joby or oth­er air oper­a­tors.”

Bon­ny Simi, Pres­i­dent of Oper­a­tions at Joby, remarked, “We’re pleased to be tick­ing two more items off our oper­a­tions check­list as we con­tin­ue to lead the indus­try towards com­mer­cial­i­sa­tion of elec­tric air taxis.”

She con­tin­ued, “As a for­mer air­line pilot, I’m par­tic­u­lar­ly look­ing for­ward to see­ing our Flight Acad­e­my grow in both cours­es and stu­dents in the com­ing years as we offer high­ly com­pet­i­tive prices and strong train­ing cur­ric­u­la that posi­tion grad­u­ates for suc­cess in the indus­try.”

Joby is also accel­er­at­ing its safe­ty cul­ture by receiv­ing accep­tance from the FAA for its Part 5 air oper­a­tions vol­un­tary Safe­ty Man­age­ment Sys­tem. While Part 135 oper­a­tors have sev­er­al years to com­ply with the FAA SMS man­date, Joby has achieved this mile­stone years ahead of the dead­line. 

This SMS require­ment for fly­ing taxi oper­a­tors involves devel­op­ing clear safe­ty poli­cies and pro­ce­dures as well as a cul­ture that pri­ori­tis­es safe­ty and encour­ages team mem­bers to report safe­ty con­cerns.

Bon­ny Simi

Simi added, “We are build­ing a strong safe­ty foun­da­tion for our planned oper­a­tions with the FAA accep­tance of our Safe­ty Man­age­ment Sys­tem gov­ern­ing air oper­a­tions under our Part 135 oper­a­tion, Joby Ele­vate.” 

The Part 141 cer­tifi­cate and Part 5 air oper­a­tions SMS are require­ments for Joby to launch its planned air taxi ser­vice, as pre­sent­ed by the Com­pa­ny in June 2024 dur­ing a pre­sen­ta­tion enti­tled: Pre-Flight Check­list: An Intro­duc­tion to Joby Air Taxi Oper­a­tions.

Joby’s Part 5 air oper­a­tions SMS is part of the Company’s Enter­prise SMS present­ly being devel­oped that cov­ers air­craft, man­u­fac­tur­ing, oper­a­tions, main­te­nance, and flight train­ing as well as facil­i­tat­ing the exchange of infor­ma­tion to con­sis­tent­ly improve the safe­ty of Joby’s air­craft and oper­a­tions.

For more infor­ma­tion

www.jobyaviation.com

(Top image: Joby receiv­ing its Part 141 cer­tifi­cate from the FAA, enabling the com­pa­ny to deliv­er stream­lined pilot train­ing via its Flight Acad­e­my — Pho­to: Joby Avi­a­tion)

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