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Civil Aviation Act, 2009 (Act No. 13 of 2009)

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Civil Aviation Regulations, 2011

Part 174 : Meteorological Information Services

Subpart 2 : Provision of Meteorological Services

174.02.1 Personnel requirements

 

(1) The Meteorological Service Provider shall employ, contract, or engage qualified, trained, and competent personnel to provide aeronautical meteorological services for air navigation.

 

(2) The Meteorological Service Provider shall determine, implement, and assess competencies of its personnel providing aeronautical meteorological services for air navigation.

 

(3) The Meteorological Service Provider shall assess the competency of its personnel at least once every three years and such competencies shall include the ability to—
(a) analyse and continuously monitor weather situation;
(b) forecast aeronautical meteorological phenomenon and parameters;
(c) warn of a hazardous phenomenon;
(d) ensure quality of meteorological information and services;
(e) communicate meteorological information to users;
(f) observe and record an aeronautical meteorological phenomenon and parameters;
(g) ensure quality of system performance and of meteorological information; and
(h) supervise production and release of meteorological information to users referred in regulation 174.01.1.

 

(4) Personnel providing aeronautical meteorological services for air navigation shall be suitably trained and qualified.

 

(5) The Meteorological Service Provider shall establish and implement a comprehensive training programme as well as a training plan to ensure that its personnel are adequately trained.

 

(6) The Meteorological Service Provider shall establish a system to maintain training and competency assessment records for personnel providing aeronautical meteorological services for air navigation.

 

(7) The Meteorological Service Provider shall maintain job profiles of personnel providing the aeronautical meteorological service for air navigation.

 

(8) The training programme and training plan referred to in subregulation (5) shall provide for on the job and refresher training.

 

[Regulation 174.02.1 substituted by regulation 23(c) of Notice No. R. 3170, GG48228, dated 17 March 2023 (Twenty-Sixth Amendment of the Civil Aviation Regulations, 2023)]