{"id":63053,"date":"2017-07-04T18:35:31","date_gmt":"2017-07-04T18:35:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.stratosjets.com\/blog\/\/"},"modified":"2023-11-23T10:27:14","modified_gmt":"2023-11-23T10:27:14","slug":"general-aviation-district-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stratosjets.com\/glossary\/gado\/","title":{"rendered":"General Aviation District Office"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A general aviation district office (GADO) is similar to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stratosjets.com\/glossary\/fsdo\/\">flight standards district office (FDSO)<\/a>. An air charter operator relies on these offices for a variety of reasons. As a branch of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), this type of field office serves a designated geographical area. The office is staffed with Flight Standards personnel responsible for servicing both the general public and the aviation industry, including an air charter operator.<\/p>\n<h2>The Duties &amp; Responsibilities of a GADO<\/h2>\n<p>Any general aviation district office is responsible for the same things that a flight standards district office is. Some of these doubled-up duties include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Pilot and crew certification (including repairmen, mechanics, dispatchers, and parachute riggers)<\/li>\n<li>Surveillance of operational safety<\/li>\n<li>Investigating any aviation misconduct<\/li>\n<li>Aircraft permits<\/li>\n<li>Aircraft operational issues<\/li>\n<li>Repairs and maintenance pertaining to aircraft<\/li>\n<li>Receiving reports of low-flying aircraft<\/li>\n<li>Managing aircraft accident reports<\/li>\n<li>Dealing with certification and modification issues and complaints<\/li>\n<li>Enforcing aircraft and airmen regulations<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>However, flight standards district offices spend more time focussing on enforcing the federal aviation regulations in the United States. It\u2019s their main responsibility. This means that a lot of the remaining duties are passed onto general aviation district offices when time is tight and more pressing matters are presented to the FDSOs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A general aviation district office (GADO) is similar to a flight standards district office (FDSO).","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":60984,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1402],"tags":[978],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stratosjets.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63053"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stratosjets.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stratosjets.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stratosjets.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stratosjets.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63053"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.stratosjets.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63053\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94018,"href":"https:\/\/www.stratosjets.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63053\/revisions\/94018"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stratosjets.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stratosjets.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stratosjets.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stratosjets.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}