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Chapter 2 - About Civil Aviation Department
Key Responsibilities
Being the civil aviation authority in Hong Kong, CAD is committed to a safe and efficient air transport system. We strive to accomplish the following missions in a professional manner: -
- Positioning Hong Kong as a leading centre of aviation
- Maintaining a safe, orderly and expeditious flow of air traffic
- Providing flight information service and alerting service within the Hong Kong Flight Information Region
- Coordinating search and rescue operations in the event of aircraft emergencies and accidents
- Setting and enforcing aerodrome safety and aviation security standards
- Ensuring compliance of established airworthiness and flight operations standards by Hong Kong registered aircraft and locally based airlines
- Ensuring Hong Kong approved aircraft maintenance organizations comply with international standards
- Ensuring Hong Kong licensed flight crew and aircraft maintenance engineers meet international standards
- Monitoring compliance by airlines with bi-lateral Air Services Agreements
- Developing workable measures to minimise the impact of aircraft noise on local communities
Organization Chart
Organization Chart as at 31 December, 2005#
Note :
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Apart from the transfer of the Telecommunications Unit from the Engineering and Systems Division to the Air Traffic Management Division on October 2005, there is no major change in organizational context since last report.
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The Accident Investigation Division is mobilised only when required by drawing specially trained staff from other Divisions. |
Number of staff
CAD had a total of 671 staff and 7 divisions as at 31 December, 2005 (Figure 1).
Our Location
CAD had 5 office locations (Figure 2). We also had a number of radar stations, radio navigational aids and communication stations.
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