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Wet, or ACMI, leases, are usually short-term contracts. (Leasing just an aircraft, with the lessee providing the crews, maintenance, insurance, and so on, is known as dry-leasing; these are usually longer-term contracts.)

The Act provides for the establishment of a stand-alone authority mandated with controlling, promoting, regulating, supporting, developing, enforcing and continuously improving levels of safety and security throughout the civil aviation industry. SACAA is an agency of the Department of Transport (DoT).

CARS are the "Regulations", which derive their authority from the Acts i.e. Civil Aviation Act and a host of others. The CARS tell you "What" you must, may or may not do. A non-compliance with a CAR is an offence. 2. The CATS are the technical standards, which derive their authority from the CARS.

An aircraft operation involving the transport of passengers, cargo or mail for remuneration or hire.

The specifically highlights the connectivity between the Civil Aviation technical standards (CATS) and Civil Aviation regulations (CARs) in a clear, easy-to-follow format.

Category C (often shortened to 'Cat C') means the insurer has deemed the cost of repair to exceed the value of the vehicle. In these cases, the car isn't necessarily considered completely unroadworthy. A Cat C car can be safe to drive as long as it's repaired safely and properly.

You need an operating licence from the Civil Aviation Authority to carry passengers, mail or cargo by air for commercial purposes.

A 'Cat' (short for 'category') car is a vehicle that has been involved in an incident that resulted in an insurance claim significant enough for the car to be 'written off' as being beyond economic repair – IE it was cheaper for the insurer to replace the car than fix it and return in to the road.