Arrange for the training of staff employed as train crew on passenger trains to include sufficient event management training to ensure they are competent to respond appropriately to foreseeable events which could adversely affect passenger safety.
Issue date:On 26 February 2025, the Commission recommended to the Director of Civil Aviation at the Civil Aviation Authority of New Zealand that they promote, through the appropriate International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) forum, the need for additional information to be included in all rotorcraft flight manuals, to assist pilots in avoiding Vortex Ring State.
Issue date:Develop a regime to ensure that locomotive driving and idling wheelset axle weights are maintained within tolerance
Issue date:Ensure that operators are reminded of the requirement to have the equipment used approved by the Ministry of Transport.
Issue date:Direct the Meteorological Service to provide Aerodrome Forecasts, using the best available information.
Issue date:Re-emphasise, to each of the Company's pilots, the potential for the pilot flying to be distracted from the routine operation of the aircraft during the execution of an emergency procedure or even a relatively minor system abnormality procedure, particularly if an unexpected need to give assistance with the procedure develops.
Issue date:Improve the effectiveness of detecting and reporting procedures for potential obstructions to rail traffic to ensure that such obstructions are removed or secured expeditiously.
Issue date:Require airline inspectors charged with the supervision of the introduction of new airlines, to ensure that Line Training Captains demonstrate by flight test that they are competent for the duties required of them, particularly if they have not had training as flying instructors.
Issue date:initiates appropriate regulatory action, such as an airworthiness directive, to require where possible the relocation of ELTs to a less vulnerable location than the nose section, on all helicopters.
Issue date:On 1 February 2016 the Commission recommended that the chief executive of Auckland International Airport Limited, in conjunction with the chief executive of Airways, measure and recalibrate luminous intensity settings for the taxiway centreline lights, runway centreline and runway edge lights and reconfigure the associated control tower setting selections so that controllers may select the respective light intensities recommended by ICAO for various levels of ambient lighting.
Issue date:Polynesian Airlines prepare an Airline Security Officer Manual, or similar document for the guidance of security officers on their duties.
Issue date:Adopt a programme to improve the prospects of continuing airworthiness: • By requiring a mandatory strip inspection at an appropriate time interval in the life of wooden aircraft; • Requiring inspection ports, both in fabric coverings and in closed structures.
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