Inquiries & Recommendations

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Gets the calibration of the automatic weather station on Great Mercury Island checked, and ensures that it reports relative to magnetic north.

acts, in concert with the FAA as the type certification authority, to amend the Aircraft Flight Manuals of the Metro and associated types to include a limitation and caution that the autopilot and yaw damper must be disconnected while in-flight fuel balancing is done. In addition, the AFM should contain a procedure for in-flight fuel balancing.

The daily bulletin was not clear to the Auckland signal box controller on the location of the work site within Tamaki Station and it was not user friendly to signal box controllers because it gave locations expressed in kilometres rather than points or signal names; the language typically used by signal box controllers. The Commission recommends the chief executive of the New Zealand Transport Agency ensures that the daily bulletins that convey critical information to rail participants is presented in a clear and unambiguous way

Review the adequacy of existing audit procedures to assess compliance with Track Warrant Control Rules.

The Commission recommends that the Director of Maritime New Zealand clarifies with industry the legal requirements around dual purpose use of vessels and the use of commercial vessels as pleasure craft, and ensures that safe ship management documents refer to the full requirements an owner must comply with before the vessel is used for another purpose.

The wearing of appropriate seat restraints can reduce injury and save lives. The Commission recommends that the Director monitor the outcome of the joint FAA/USPA study and determine if any findings are applicable for the New Zealand parachuting industry

Develop an MSA Commercial Jet Boat Driver Licence, which every commercial jet boat driver must hold. The licensing system should be structured with: • a detailed training syllabus and a driving test, for the basic licence • several levels of endorsement, each dependent on specified numbers of driver hours and a further driving test • restrictions on all-up weight (boat and passengers) for each endorsement • endorsements for each river on which the holder intends to operate, following a specified number of hours on each river

Produce an MSA Circular Letter to Surveyors, instructing them, when surveying rigid inflatable craft, to include the inflatable pontoons and their attachments to the hull, as though they were an integral part of the hull.

Ensure any exemption from compliance with the airspeed restrictions in controlled airspace, approved by CAA, is properly promulgated.

undertake and publish further quantitative research and causal analyses of flying training-related accidents and incidents held in the CAA’s occurrence database to assess fully and identify any potential systemic safety issues, trends and risks, so that appropriate safety strategies can be adopted to improve safety performance within the New Zealand flying training system

Air Transport Operations into One-way Airstrips: When the Operations Manual called for a particular missed approach procedure then the Operations Manual identify the physical feature to determine the missed approach point.

That consideration be given to dividing the basic mountain survival equipment so that some items are stowed on each side of the helicopter, if side locker stowage is used, since in most land-based accidents the helicopter is likely to come to rest rolled onto one side or the other.