024/92

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CAA
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Require the Airways Corporation to ensure that its staff comply with the requirements of the Manual of Air Traffic Services.
Reply Text
The Civil Aviation regulatory body has required since August 1990 that the Airways Corporation as the holder of an Airways Services Certificate provide, for compliance by its operations personnel, an operations manual or manuals. The Manual of Air Traffic Services is one of these manuals.

[The requirements for the holder of an Airways Service Certificate are principally specified in Civil Aviation Regulations 1953 4(1), 149A, 149B, 149C, 149D, 149E, 149F and 149G as amended by amendments 26 (dated 23 March 1987) and 31 (dated 20 August 1990).]

Civil Aviation Regulation 149B as amended by amendment 31 states that "Every person who is the holder of an airways service certificate shall provide, for compliance by its operations personnel, an operations manual or manuals containing ..."

Regular audits are carried out on the Airways Corporation to ensure that Regulations, and accordingly operations manual(s), are complied with. There was an audit of the Wellington Control Centre on 9 and 10 March 1992.

The Civil Aviation Authority has a system in place to ensure that the ACNZ internal system of incident investigation is operational. In fact, CAA receives all ATS incidents and investigates most to an appropriate level.
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