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Aviation Third-Party Audit Preparation Kit
A working pack for a UAS operator facing a third-party audit of its safety management, by an authority, a customer or an insurer. Built around the full ICAO Annex 19 twelve-element structure, it gives a self-assessment, an evidence register, a briefing plan, an interview guide, a corrective-action log, and a readiness summary with an explicit go or no-go decision.
Problem
A UAS operator with a management system on paper often has no real sense of whether it would survive being examined. An audit is not primarily a technical inspection; it tests whether the organisation can show that its stated policy, its risk management process and its own monitoring actually operate, day to day, and most organisations discover the gap between the two only when an auditor finds it.
Outcome
The operator works through a structured readiness assessment against the twelve ICAO Annex 19 SMS elements and the applicable UAS compliance regime, with every gap tracked to a corrective action and a named owner, evidence assembled and quality-checked rather than only listed, and the organisation briefed against the audit’s own stated scope and criteria. This is an initial, structured readiness assessment, not a promise of what a specific auditor will find: the auditor’s own criteria and judgement govern the actual audit, and this pack’s job is to leave as little as possible to be discovered for the first time on the day.
What’s included
Four editable documents and five worksheets, supplied as DOCX, XLSX, PDF and ZIP
- A short written guide in PDF explaining what a third-party audit of a UAS operator’s safety management actually covers, structured against the ICAO Annex 19 safety management framework
- An audit readiness self-assessment in XLSX, capturing the audit’s own context and criteria, scoring all twelve ICAO Annex 19 SMS elements, and a UAS-specific compliance module for the applicable regulatory regime
- A document and evidence register in XLSX, listing the records an audit most often asks to see, where each one is held, and whether it is current, approved, accessible and sampled, plus a sample and evidence request log
- A pre-audit briefing plan in DOCX, built from fixed tables covering the audit’s own objectives, scope and criteria, roles, agenda, access and confidentiality, and daily debrief and escalation
- An interview preparation guide in DOCX, on how staff and remote pilots are typically questioned at audit and how to answer from the actual record rather than from memory
- A finding and corrective action log in XLSX, with a full correction, root cause, corrective action and verified-effectiveness structure, so a finding cannot be closed without evidence
- An audit readiness summary in XLSX, aggregating every open item into an explicit go or no-go decision made and signed off by a named accountable manager
Who it’s for
- UAS operators preparing for an audit by Luftfartstilsynet, a customer or an insurer
- Safety and compliance staff who hold a safety management system on paper and want to know whether it would survive examination
- Operators who have never been through a third-party audit and do not know what to expect
Price
The entry price is EUR 99 / NOK 1 070, excluding value added tax.
| Licence | One-off, excluding MVA | Optional annual updates, excluding MVA | One-off in Norway, including 25% MVA |
|---|---|---|---|
| Personal, one named user | EUR 99 / NOK 1 070 | EUR 35 / NOK 375 | NOK 1 337.50 |
| Organisation, one legal entity | EUR 249 / NOK 2 680 | EUR 79 / NOK 850 | NOK 3 350 |
Personal to Organisation upgrade, for the difference between the two current list prices: EUR 150 / NOK 1 610, excluding value added tax.
The purchase is perpetual and the update subscription is optional. If you subscribe, you receive revised files when the regulatory baseline changes; if you let it lapse, you keep everything you already have. A lapsed subscription costs you updates, never access.
Licence and VAT
Personal, one named user and Organisation, one legal entity. Both are one-off and perpetual: you keep the files.
How merverdiavgift is charged
The seller is RMX DRIFT AS, organisation number 931 140 574, registered for merverdiavgift in Norway. Every product here is an electronic service for MVA purposes, so the rate is decided by where you are established and whether you are buying as a business or as a private individual.
If you are in Norway, you are charged 25 per cent MVA on top of the kroner list price. The final column above is that total, and it is the amount a private buyer in Norway pays. A Norwegian business or public body is charged the same 25 per cent and can normally reclaim it as input MVA through its own return, so the ex-MVA column is the real cost to you.
If you are a business or public body established outside Norway, the sale is zero-rated as a remotely deliverable service under merverdiavgiftsloven section 6-22. You are charged the list price with no Norwegian MVA added, and you account for any VAT due in your own country under the reverse charge. Enter your organisation or VAT number at checkout: without it we cannot treat the sale as a business supply and MVA is added.
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Prices are reviewed twice a year and the two currency lists are held close to parity, so switching currency saves you almost nothing. Nothing on this page is tax advice; if your situation is unusual, ask your own adviser.
What this is not
- This is not an audit and does not perform one. It does not assess or approve any organisation’s safety management.
- It does not replace the operator’s own safety management system, and it is not a template for building one from nothing.
- It is not specific to any one authority’s, customer’s or insurer’s audit methodology. Where a specific auditor’s own requirements differ from the general structure here, the specific requirements govern.
- It does not cover financial, quality management system, or non-aviation regulatory audits. The NorthSky Generic Third-Party Audit Preparation Kit covers cross-industry certification-audit preparation instead.
FAQ
Does this predict what an auditor will find?
No. It’s an initial, structured readiness assessment against the twelve ICAO Annex 19 SMS elements and the applicable UAS compliance regime — the auditor’s own criteria and judgement still govern the actual audit.
Does this kit perform the audit or approve my safety management?
No. It is not an audit and doesn’t assess or approve any organisation’s safety management.
Does this replace our existing safety management system?
No. It doesn’t replace your SMS and isn’t a template for building one from nothing.
Is this tied to one specific authority’s or insurer’s checklist?
No. It’s not specific to any one authority’s, customer’s, or insurer’s methodology — where a specific auditor’s own requirements differ, those requirements govern.
Does this cover quality-management or non-aviation audits?
No. The NorthSky Generic Third-Party Audit Preparation Kit covers cross-industry certification-audit preparation instead.
What do I need to open the files?
Microsoft Word 2016 or later (or any DOCX-compatible editor), Microsoft Excel 2016 or later (or any XLSX-compatible editor), and any PDF reader.