Gap analysis
Before committing to a certification or approval project, you need to know where you stand. We collect what exists, check it against the applicable requirements and tell you what is missing, in what order to close it and what it will take.
What we do
Organisation approvals
DOA, POA, Part 145, Part-CAMO and their EMAR equivalents: whether the exposition, the procedures and the records would survive the audit, requirement by requirement.
Product certification
Type certificate, supplemental type certificate or ETSO authorisation: where the certification basis, the compliance matrix and the compliance evidence stand against a submission.
UAS operational authorisation
The SORA package, the ConOps, the operations manual and the design evidence: what the authority would send back today, and why.
Military programmes
Readiness against STANAG 4671 / AEP-4671 and EMAR 21 for a national military airworthiness authority, including the deviations that authority applies.
Crossing between regimes
A civil type certificate towards a military type certificate, or a SAIL IV design verification towards a full type certificate: the delta analysis that shows what carries over, what has to be re-argued and what has to be produced from scratch.
What you receive
- Gap report, requirement by requirement: met, partially met or missing, with the evidence found and what is absent.
- Roadmap: what to close first, in what order, with the effort each gap carries, so the programme can be planned and budgeted.
- Evidence register: every document and record we collected, where it sits and which requirement it answers.
Frameworks we check against
- Part 21, including Subparts G, J and O, Regulation (EU) No 748/2012
- Part 145, Part-CAMO, Part-M and Part-IS, Regulations (EU) No 1321/2014, 2023/203 and 2022/1645
- CS-23, CS-25, CS-27, CS-29, CS-E, CS-P and CS-ETSO, EASA certification specifications
- SC-VTOL and SC Light-UAS with their published means of compliance, EASA special conditions
- Regulation (EU) 2019/947 and JARUS SORA 2.5, UAS operations in the specific category
- EMAR 21, EMAR 145, EMAR M and the EMACC handbook, European military airworthiness
- STANAG 4671 / AEP-4671 and the related NATO UAS standards, NATO
- 14 CFR Parts 21, 23, 25, 27, 29, 33, 35 and 145, FAA, including validation projects
- ARP4754A, ARP4761A, DO-178C / ED-12C, DO-254 / ED-80 and DO-160G / ED-14G, development assurance and equipment qualification
- National frameworks, on request
This list is not closed. A gap analysis can be run against whichever framework your authority applies; name the target and we work in it.
Questions
- What do you need from us to start?
- The intended scope and jurisdiction, access to the documents and records that already exist, and one contact per area. Nothing has to be tidy first; sorting the evidence is part of the work.
- What if the documents are incomplete or scattered?
- That is the normal case. The evidence register comes first and shows what exists before anything is judged against a requirement.
- Do you also close the gaps?
- Yes, as consultancy or as compliance artefact production. The report is written so that your own team, or any other, can work from it.
- Can you compare a civil certificate against military requirements?
- Yes. That delta is a frequent request: what the civil evidence covers, what the military authority requires on top, and what has to be produced again.
- Is the report something we send to the authority?
- No. It is an internal document that maps your evidence to the requirements. The authority sees the application and its evidence, not our report.