Advice provided on subjects including
SMS, Incident and safety reports, spray drift, Down to the Wire, AIRCARE, New Southern Sky, ACC premiums, employment contracts, wage rate changes, brokering meetings with CAA, practical advice to smaller members on SMS (including workshops at the Nelson conference), GST on B2B contract engagement with IRD, aviation input to DoC, explaining aviation realities (Ministry of Education, TEC, NZQA and NZIS), election policies, international marketing, and promoting the competence of New Zealand aviation.
Successes
Several meetings with the Minister who also spoke to the Nelson conference; Incident and safety reports now valuable learning tools for NZAAA, NZHA and Training & Development; importance of AIRCARE reflected in Landcorp and some DoC tender documents; Aerial Application workshop with Iwi and EPA; improved understanding among many members of what SMS means to them; greater practical engagement with CAA (Airworthiness, HAU, Licensing); presentations to range of interest groups including ALPA, Hong Kong Vocational Training Council, Indonesian and Saudi Arabia aviation agencies, and India New Zealand Business Conference.