Advice provided on a wide variety of subjects including
Advice was provided in areas including SMS, Incident and safety reports, spray drift, Down to the Wire, AIRCARE, New Southern Sky, ACC premiums, employment contracts, wage rate changes, relationships and issues with CAA, practical advice to smaller members on SMS (including workshops at the Auckland conference), GST on B2B contracts, aviation input to DoC, explaining aviation realities (Ministry of Education, TEC and NZQA), international marketing, and promoting the competence of New Zealand aviation.
Successes
Several meetings with the Minister who also spoke to the Auckland conference; CAA accident data recalibrated in terms of IHST data (huge input from Scott McKenzie and John Funnell), 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; improved understanding among many members of what SMS means to them with survey showing the real costs of implementation rather than the theory in the Regulatory Impact Statement, and some slight adjustments in CAA communications following representations on specific issues.