Expertise - technical advice

Advice provided on a wide variety of subjects 

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, aviation input to DoC, and explaining aviation realities (Ministry of Education, TEC and NZQA).  

Successes

Surveys, with CAA, on the health of the industry which gave CAA real data and allowed facts based contributions to be made to policy agencies - even if the outcomes/programmes did not result in the real value we were looking for (Government assistance to the GA sector generally was declined, the essential freight programme has provided relief but the essential regional connectivity programme has proved problematic).  SOPs developed for Part 133, 135, 137, 141 and 145 organisations for various Alert levels and kept up to date, meetings with the Minister about the effects of Covid-19 on the industry, practical input to Transport Technical Group at Climate Change Commissionwith Air New Zealand to ensure proposals for aviation are more realistic.  AIRCARE accreditation rules were updated and NZS8409-2004, Management of agrichemicals was updated with tremendous input from John Sinclair.