Comparative review of Vietnamese standards and guidelines for aerodrome maintenance with ICAO documents

Abstract

Maintenance of a civil aerodrome is an extremely crucial aspect in managing and operating airport activities, ensuring the safety, flow, and efficiency of flights. Airport managers must strictly adhere to national standards, guidelines, or documents established by civil aviation authorities. This article provides a comparative review of Vietnamese standards and guidelines for aerodrome maintenance with ICAO documents for a comprehensive understanding of status of this documentation system and a proposal of its adjustment. Methods of document collection and analysis were employed to synthesize information and make assessments. The results indicate that the current documentation system is still incomplete in terms of both form and content. Adjusting, supplementing, and converting standards to make them more complete and widely applicable is necessary and urgent