"Bill Denton" wrote in message ...
How does the ICAO fit into all of this?

I was under the impression that they were a multi-national organization that
dealt with "coordinating" aviation activities among nations.

From what I understand, the ICAO puts forth a set of rules from which
individual nations could extract subsets, or create supersets of, with the
essential idea being to create a "core" set of rules that all signatory
nations would abide by.

Among many things I don't know is what the scope and depth of these rules
is. I know they cover stuff like runway designs and things like that, but do
they also cover such things as required aircraft equipment, pilot training,
and similar issues. And do they go down to the "Section 1.2.3.4.5" level?

Also, do they apply only to commercial aviation, or is all GA covered?

If anyone has any additional info, TIA!



I recently saw an article that described changes to the FARs for SIC pilots; required that they have a SIC type rating
or similar to fly in ICAO countries, Needed to be done ASAP, or the flight crews were going to be cited.