Free CASA SMS Compliance Check

This compliance check is genuinely free for the first 10 operators who book: both calls, the AI analysis, and the expert review. The reason we can do it for free is the proprietary technology Deepsky has developed, which dramatically speeds up the comprehension and comparison of your SMS manual against CASA’s SMS requirements. And there is no catch - you get everything described here at no cost. We also offer further consulting and technology services to help bring your safety management system into full operation, and to monitor it afterwards - but that is completely up to you.

A gap report on your SMS manual or exposition measured against the CASA SMS requirements: which required elements are covered, which are missing or incomplete, with references to the specific regulatory clauses. It is presented and explained in a 30-minute debrief call with Associate Professor Guido Carim Jr and Deepsky founder Samuel Chandra. The report identifies gaps; it does not write the fixes for you.

Yes, this is secure - your data remains your data. Your SMS manual, the information inside it, and anything you share with us during the process are never used to train AI models, and are not accessible to anyone other than you and the two of us. All analysis occurs on SOC 2 or ISO 27001 certified infrastructure, under enterprise agreements that prohibit training on customer data. Unless you choose to keep working with us, your manual is deleted after the engagement.

No. The findings are private to you. Nothing is reported to CASA, industry bodies, or anyone else. What you do with the report is entirely your decision.

Yes. CASA publishes two sample SMS manuals (a standard one and a micro-operator one, both refreshed in February 2026), and they are a starting scaffold, not a compliant manual. CASA expects the manual to describe how safety management actually works in your operation: your people, your risk profile, your procedures. A template with the blanks filled in thinly is exactly the kind of submission that attracts questions. The check shows you where your manual is still template and not yet you.

If you hold a Part 119 air transport AOC: yes, regardless of size - the SMS scales with your operation, it never switches off. For aerial work, capture depends on what you fly - see the five categories above. Either way, if you have no more than 10 operational safety-critical personnel employed under a contract of service, you count as a micro-operator: you can use CASA’s shorter micro-operator sample manual and, under current CASA relief, your CEO or Head of Flying Operations can be your safety manager. The elements still have to be there; they can just be scaled to your operation. Small operators are exactly who this offer is for: you are the least likely to have a safety department to throw at the problem.

Both are due alongside your SMS on 1 September if you are a Part 119 operator: HFNTS procedures for everyone, and FDAP procedures if you operate aeroplanes over 27,000 kg or larger rotorcraft. Our check covers your SMS content including the FDAP element where it applies to your fleet, and we will flag obvious HFNTS gaps while we are in your documentation. Everything lands in your exposition, and we treat it that way.

Not automatically. Having an SMS for a customer or audit standard does not discharge the CASA submission: if you were captured by the transition, your SMS content still has to be submitted to CASA by 1 September. The good news is you are starting from a real system - the check tells you whether it meets the CASA requirement set as written, before CASA reads it.

Two reasons. First, CASA’s tool is a self-assessment: you read your own manual and score yourself Yes, Partially or No - it measures your opinion of your manual, and nobody checks whether your "Yes" would survive CASA reading the actual document. Second, CASA’s tool says in its own instructions that it is "not designed to align with any specific CASA regulations" - it is a generic ICAO best-practice worksheet, not a CASA compliance check. Our check reads the manual itself against the actual regulatory guidance.

Whatever you want. Some operators will take the report and close the gaps in-house before 1 September. If you want help, we offer two things: consulting to close the documentation gaps, and Deepsky’s platform plus consulting to help you demonstrate the SMS is actually operating, which is what the 1 December deadline demands. Both are optional and quoted separately.

Two 30-minute calls, about a week apart. Between them we run the analysis and review. Booking early matters for a reason beyond the paperwork: by 1 December your nominated safety manager must also be accepted by CASA, and that assessment runs on CASA’s timeline, not yours. The earlier you know your gaps, the more of that runway you keep.