Your FAA gap analysis,
as a live checklist
Part 5 is judged on the records behind it, not on the manual in front of it. Work through every requirement in subparts B to F, mark where you actually stand, and get a report that says which evidence exists and which is still to be built — with each open item ready to become an assigned task in SAFEJETS MS.
Start your gap analysis
Answer one question per requirement across subparts B to F. Your report is emailed to you at the end, and we come back with where each open item would live.
About fifteen minutes. You can stop and come back to it, and there is no obligation at the end of it.
A working system, not a submitted manual
Part 135 certificate holders and 91.147 air tour operators must have an SMS developed and implemented, and a declaration of compliance filed, by 28 May 2027.
Certificated before 28 May 2024: implement and file by 28 May 2027. Applications made on or after that date: SMS required at certification.
LOA applied for on or before 28 May 2024: the same date. On or after: § 91.147(b) applies at the time of application.
The window has already closed. Certificate holders had 12 months for the Part 5 amendments — that date was 28 May 2025.
Single-pilot operators with multiple employees meet every applicable requirement. Where the single pilot is the sole individual responsible, the excepted sections apply.
The same assessment, but it maintains itself
On a spreadsheet
- One person owns the file.
- The reference against each requirement is typed by hand and goes stale the first time a manual is revised.
- Open items have no owner and no date.
- Nobody can tell whether a blank row is unmet or just unfilled.
As a live checklist in SAFEJETS MS
- Each requirement links to the document, process or record that satisfies it.
- References update when the underlying document is revised.
- Open items become assigned tasks with owners and due dates.
- Progress is a live figure, not a status meeting.
Assess your own position against Part 5
77 questions, one for each requirement in subparts B to F, answered the way a safety manager answers them: satisfied, partial, or unsatisfied. It takes about fifteen minutes, and your report is emailed to you at the end.
Start your gap analysis
Tell us where to send the report and the assessment opens straight away. No download, no spreadsheet to maintain, and you can stop and come back to it on this browser.
We use your address to send the report and to follow up once. Nothing else.
Your compliance position is calculated once every requirement has been answered.
Your result is not ready yet
All 77 requirements still to answer. A part-finished analysis produces a number nobody can act on, so the position is calculated only once the assessment is complete.
- Satisfied
- 0
- Partial
- 0
- Unsatisfied
- 0
Send me the report
Every requirement with the status you gave it, in regulation order, plus where each open item would live in SAFEJETS MS.
Part 5 is judged on evidence, not intent
Every subpart ends in a record somebody has to produce on request. These are the questions paper-based systems cannot answer.
Who read the policy?
A distribution list is not evidence of receipt. Mandatory reading is tracked and acknowledged per person.
What was the residual risk?
The evaluation must be dated before the control was implemented. The workflow enforces that sequence.
How was the finding closed?
Closure without a documented cause is an open finding waiting to recur. Root cause by Fishbone or 5 Why.
Who completed the training?
Competency records for every individual named under 5.23, retained under 5.97(c) for as long as they are employed.
A signed declaration — and nobody checks your work first
What you actually submit on 28 May 2027
A declaration of compliance: a legal document stating you have developed and implemented an SMS meeting Part 5, carrying your organization name and certificate number and physical address, and signed by the accountable executive or another senior member of management.
The FAA does not review your SMS before you file it. You self-validate, you declare, and validation happens afterwards during scheduled surveillance by your certificate management team — where the first contact may simply be a request for your SMS processes and procedures.
The accountable executive signs first and is audited later. Which is why the question is not whether the manual is finished. It is whether the records behind it exist on the day of signature — and assurance data cannot be produced retroactively.
Take the documents with you
No form in the way. Both are ours, and both are written for the person who has to produce the evidence rather than for a procurement file.
SAFEJETS MS brochure
The platform in full: safety management, compliance monitoring, document control, risk, investigation and reporting.
Download brochure (PDF, 1 MB)Part 5 compliance mapping
Subpart by subpart, which part of SAFEJETS MS holds the evidence for each Part 5 requirement.
Download mapping (PDF, 157 KB)
Most operators do not need a licence.
They need a system built.
We are aviators before we are a software vendor — thirteen years in flight operations and safety management under EASA-aligned regulatory frameworks. Where an operator wants help rather than a login, the team that built the platform does the implementation work.
Gap analysis
Run against Part 5 with your postholders in the room, not delivered as a report you then have to interpret.
Documentation
SMS manual, procedures, emergency response plan, risk methodology and an SPI/SPT set that suits your operation.
Configuration
FRAT criteria, risk matrix, audit checklists, notification rules and retention periods set to your certificate and fleet.
Training
Accountable executive, safety manager, compliance monitoring manager and postholders — on the regulation and on the system.
Name the requirement. We will show you where the evidence lives.
Thirty minutes, held against your own gap analysis rather than a scripted demo. If your safety manager would rather read first, we will send the clause-by-clause mapping as a document.
For authoritative requirements refer to 14 CFR Part 5, AC 120-92D and FAA Order 8900.1 Volume 17. This page is an overview and not a substitute for the regulation or for guidance from your FAA principal inspector.