Aviation Infrastructure and Personnel

The Aviation Infrastructure and Personnel Group is responsible for the oversight of aviation security, aerodrome safety, air traffic management, and communication, navigation and surveillance systems, and aviation meteorology. The Group also manages the licensing process for pilots, air traffic controllers, and engineers, and has oversight of the civil aviation medical system, flight training activity, and the CAA’s health and safety obligations.

Fax: 04 560 9452

General Manager	Chris Ford	Tel: 04 560 9501
Group Executive Officer	Dianne Parker	Tel: 04 560 9658

Personnel and Flight Training

Aeronautical Services

The Aeronautical Services Unit manages the certification and surveillance of aerodromes, organisations providing dangerous goods training, air traffic services, aviation weather services, instrument flight procedure, aeronautical information and aeronautical telecommunications services. The Unit also designates and classifies airspace, including the processing of applications on objects affecting navigable airspace, such as structures, fireworks, rockets and efflux. The Unit manages notifications on construction, alteration, activation and deactivation of aerodromes, and performs aerodrome and heliport inspections.

Manager	Mike Haines	Tel: 04 560 9429
Aeronautical Services Officer - Aerodromes and Dangerous Goods	Max Evans	Tel: 04 560 9566
Aeronautical Services Officer - Telecommunications	Toby Farmer	Tel: 04 560 9583
Aeronautical Services Officer - Air Traffic Services		Tel: 04 560 9xxx
Aeronautical Services Officer - Air Traffic Services	Paula Moore	Tel: 04 560 9525
Aeronautical Services Officer - Air Traffic Services	Perry Matthews	Tel: 04 560 9636

Security Regulatory Unit

The Security Regulatory Unit monitors compliance and certification of aviation system participants requiring security oversight, such as airlines (domestic and international), the Aviation Security Service, Regulated Air Cargo Agents, air traffic services, and security designated aerodromes.

Fax: 04 570 1088

Manager	Hugo Porter	Tel: 04 560 9637
Senior Technical Specialist - Aviation Security	Debbie Suisted	Tel: 04 560 9573
Technical Specialist Aviation Security	Mark Stephen	Tel: 04 560 9541
Technical Specialist Aviation Security	Rod Albrechtsen	Tel: 04 560 9435
Technical Specialist Aviation Security	Kevin Jackson	Tel: 04 560 9484

Health and Safety

The Health and Safety Unit focuses on the health and safety of those who work on board aircraft. The Unit provides information and guidance, conducts inspections of workplaces, audits health and safety management systems, investigates workplace accidents and concerns, and checks on compliance with responsibilities under the Health and Safety in Employment Act 1992, and Hazardous Substances and New Organisms Act 1996.