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Mohammad Shahbazi

Vice President for Flight Standards

Office: +982166025045

Email: m-shahbazi@caa.gov.ir

 

Responsibilities:

•    Development of air transport institutes and companies to meet the relevant needs of passengers, cargo and postal cargo (to provide non-exclusive air services needed by the country)
•    Applying national aviation and air transport policies and helping to formulate and monitor their implementation regarding flight standards
•    Policy making and planning and determining the country's air transport technical policies
•    Policy making and planning in the field of education and training of aviation specialist personnel for all aviation institutions
•    Providing a change management program
•    Participation in training sessions and scientific conferences and related meetings
•    Contributing in updating related regulations, including reviewing international and regional aviation regulations and other countries
•    Assessing and providing the necessary suggestions regarding the difference between the effectiveness of the current regulations and the annexes of the Chicago Convention
•    Taking the necessary measures to compile and present statistics and information to the competent authorities
•    Taking the necessary steps to maintain and protect the necessary documents
•    Issuing, suspending and revoking the authority certificate of standard flight experts
•    Proposing a training program and cooperating to hold training courses for the staff 
•    Cooperation with external auditors and inspectors in coordination with the CAA’s president
•    Coordinating the dispatch of flight safety assistant colleagues to foreign missions with the coordination of other relevant units
•    Monitoring the implementation of the country's safety program in all sectors of the industry
 

 

Mehdi Motallebi

Director of Flight Operations

Office: +982161022128

Email: m-motallebi@caa.gov.ir


Responsibilities: 

•    Development and/or revision of specific operating regulations; 
•    Preparation and updating of flight operations inspector manual;
•    Complying regulations related to flight operations with ICAO requirements and, if necessary, announcing differences;
•    Issuing, amending, suspending, revoking and limiting the Air Operator Certificate (AOC) and operations specifications;
•    Issuing, amending, suspending and limiting the following specific approvals: PBN authorization required (AR), MNPS, RVSM, LVO, ETOPS, DG, NVIS, HOIST, HEMS, HOFO and EFB;
•    Issuing, amending, suspending, revoking and limiting authorization of high risk commercial specialized operations;
•    Certification of general aviation operations;
•    Supervision of commercial air operators and legal action/information regarding deficiencies;
•    Issuing approval of the Operations Manual;
•    Issuing approval of the minimum equipment list (MEL);
•    Planning and conducting Ramp Inspections of national and foreign aircraft;
•    Supervision of flight and duty time limitations and rest requirements;
•    Supervision of flight crew training including:
-    Recurrent Training
-    Operator Proficiency Check (OPC)
-    Flight Simulation Training Device (FSTD)
-    Designated Examiners
•    Supervision of cabin crew training;
•    Supervision of aircraft leasing agreements;
•    Issuance of operational directives;
•    Identifying aviation safety risks, managing to mitigate the risks;
•    Record keeping;
•    Developing staff training program;
•    Delegation of authority/credential to the flight operations and dangerous goods inspectors;
•    Establishment of surveillance program to verify all air operators comply, on a continuing basis with national regulations, international standards, AOCs and corresponding operations specifications;
•    Monitoring and recording actions taken by air operators in resolving identified safety issues, to make it possible to track past deficiencies and regulatory non-compliance;
•    Issuing approvals/exemptions of dangerous goods transportation by air;
•    Supervising air transportation of dangerous goods by air;
•    Development and/or revision of regulations related to the transportation of dangerous goods by air.

MohammadJavad Najibi

Director of Personnel Licensing

Office: +9866025045

 Email: m-Najibi@caa.gov.ir

 

Personnel Licensing (PEL) is a department within the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA). The PEL is responsible for the oversight of ICAO Annex 1 requirements. PEL has three groups to discharge its responsibilities.1- operation, 2- maintenance, and 3- medical. The PEL department carries out many functions which are normally organized into five major functional areas: examinations, licensing, training, medical, and regulatory.

 

 

Alireza Nikouee

Director of Airworthiness

Office: +982166078730

Email: a-nikouee@caa.gov.ir

 

Airworthiness Department consists of the Airworthiness Inspection (AID) and Airworthiness Engineering Divisions (AED) and therefore carries out related responsibilities of both, which encompass:

  • Continuing Airworthiness Certifications for AOC (Airworthiness aspects, e.g. CAMO), Maintenance Organizations, etc.
  • Design related certifications and approvals for Design organizations, Production Organizations, Modifications and repairs, etc.
  • Aircraft Type Certification, Validation, Acceptance, etc.
  • Approvals for Maintenance Program, Manuals and Expositions, Capability lists, etc.
  • Aircraft Registrations and deregistration, Transfer and Leasing Approval (Airworthiness aspects)
  • Aircraft Airworthiness Certification, Certificate of Airworthiness, Special Flight Permits, etc.
  • Surveillance on certificate holders of the above entities and foreign operators.