Join the A Team With a Career in Aviation

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(Free-Press-Release.com) October 26, 2011 -- There’s just over 1,000 of them and the lives of thousands of people depend on them every minute of every day. They are the men and women of the Civil Aviation Authority, the organisation employed and funded by the airlines to regulate civil aviation in the UK.

The CAA, as it is commonly known, is primarily concerned with most aspects of safety in the skies including air traffic control which it licences out to National Air Traffic Services who employ another 5,000 people for this vital task.

The CAA’s other main responsibilities include :

- Flight Crew, Aircraft Engineer and Air Traffic Controller licensing;
- Medical regulation of safety-critical aviation personnel;
- Licensing of aerodromes and other aviation facilities;
- Maintaining the UK register of aircraft;
- Licensing of aircraft;
- Regulation of aircraft airworthiness and related engineering functions;
- Economic regulation, including the regulation of monopoly and near-monopoly organisations involved in the provision of aviation services (for example BAA Limited), as well as regulating aviation-related organisations operating in a competitive marketplace (for example UK-based airlines);

- Development of aviation policy, both within the UK and Europe-wide.

Another essential part of the organisation’s work tends to be overlooked until people have personal experience of it themselves. This involves the CAA’s Air Travel Organisers’ Licensing scheme known as ATOL. This basically provides protection to holidaymakers when booking package tours abroad. If an airline or tour operator goes bust but is a fully paid up member of the ATOL programme, the CAA will refund passengers who have already paid a deposit but have not yet travelled. It will also organise return flights for those holidaymakers who have already flown but are stranded overseas.

Needless to say, working for the CAA is hugely satisfying but demanding. The authority has to ensure it employs the very best staff at its main offices in London and at Gatwick but the rewards are above average and still include a final salary scheme.

It maintains an excellent recruitment website which even allows interested applicants to submit their details for future vacancies.

More information can be found online at http://www.caacareers.com/