The Federal Aviation Administration Safer Skies Initiative “Aviation Weather!” Where are we?

The Federal Aviation Administration Safer Skies

Initiative

“Aviation Weather!” Where are we?

• Commercial Aviation Safety Team (CAST)

• Partners in Cabin Safety

• General Aviation Joint Steering Committee (GA JSC)

The Three Teams

Who is the GA Joint Steering Committee ?

Government GA Joint Committee members

• Federal Aviation Administration• National Aeronautics and Space Administration

(NASA)

Industry GA Joint Committee Members

• Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association (AOPA)• Experimental Aircraft Association (EAA)

• General Aviation Manufacturers Association (GAMA)

• Helicopter Association International (HAI)• National Air Transportation Association (NATA)• National Business Aviation Association (NBAA)

Weather

•Weather-Related Factor•Weather-Contributing Factor

“VFR Flight Not Recommended”

What’s Being Done?Five Major Strategies

• Better weather information.

•Improved weather training materials and programs to disseminate them.

•Improved low-altitude procedures.

•Synthetic vision.

•Reduce regulatory barriers to proper weather decisions.

New Technologies – NASA WxAP

• Cockpit Weather Information Technologies.

• Weather Communications Technologies

•Turbulence Prediction and Warning Systems

Cockpit Weather Information Technologies

Aviation Weather Information - AWIN

Tropospheric Airborne Meteorological Data Reporting (TAMDAR)

Weather Communications Technologies

Weather Communication Information - WINCOMM

Turbulence Prediction and Warning System

TPAWS

“A great, great deal has been said about the weather, but very little has been done”.*

-Mark Twain-

*Quotation from 1921 Ford calendar card from the Dave Thomson collection.

Synthetic Vision Test Flight in Eagle Vail, Colorado - 2002