Part 172 Air Traffic Service Organisations Certification

The objective of Part 172 is to set standards, specifications, restrictions, and requirements for the issue and exercise of an Air Traffic Service certificate under the Civil Aviation Act 2023, and to ensure New Zealand meets and maintains applicable ICAO standards and recommended practices related to certification and operating requirements for organisations providing an air traffic service in the New Zealand and Auckland Oceanic Flight Information Regions.

Part 172 also prescribes the operating and technical standards for the provision of an air traffic service by a certificated organisation.

Part 172 includes requirements for aerodrome control services, area control services, approach control services, flight information services, aerodrome flight information services, alerting services, and any other air traffic service considered by the Director to be necessary or desirable for the safe and efficient operation of the civil aviation system.

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• Subpart A - General (172.1 - 172.15)
• Subpart B - Certification Requirements (172.51 - 172.125)
• Subpart C - Operating Requirements (172.151 - 172.165)
• Subpart D - Other Air Traffic Services (172.201 - 172.209)
• Subpart E - Separation criteria and minima (172.251 - 172.293)
• Subpart F - Standard phraseology (172.351 - 172.353)
• Subpart G - ATS surveillance procedures (172.401 - 172.403)