By: Aviation System Standards, Flight Inspection Services Date:November 21, 2011 Federal Aviation Administration Air Traffic Organization Technical Operations

By: Aviation System Standards, Flight Inspection Services

Date: November 21, 2011

Federal AviationAdministration

Air Traffic Organization

Technical Operations ServicesAviation System Standards

ATO – Technical Operations - Aviation System Standards2Federal Aviation

AdministrationNovember 21, 2011

Aviation System Standards

ATO, Chief Operating Officer

Flight InspectionServices Group

Douglas Vaz

Aircraft Maintenance & Engineering Group

(Franchise Program)

Joe Doubleday

Senior Vice President

Operations

Vice PresidentTechnical Operations

ServicesTeri Bristol

Director ofAviation System Standards

Edward W. Lucke

Vice President

Technical Operations Services

Teri Bristol

Flight Inspection Operations Group

Pete Gretsch



Aviation System Standards LocationsAviation System Standards Locations

Headquarters

Flight Procedures Offices (FPO)

AeroNav Services – Silver Spring, MD

Flight Inspection Offices

FAA Command Center AVN Liaison



Flight Program - Aircraft

18 King Air BE-300

18 King Air BE-300

4 Challenger CL-600 Series

4 Challenger CL-600 Series

6 Learjet LR-606 Learjet LR-60

DC-3DC-3



2 Challenger 605’s added to fleet; FAA/USAF



FAA & USAF Partnership

• FAA Military Partnerships– AFFSA Det 1 active duty collocated– USAFR unit assigned

• Purpose is to receive training and share assets for Military Contingencies– Iraq– Afghanistan– Military Exercises



AVN Function Realignment

• Effective October 2010• Created Mission Support Services (AJV-0)• Primary Group involving Tech Ops is now

“Aeronautical Products” (AJV-3); Known to us a “NFPO” or “AVN-100”– NOTAMS– Procedure cancelation– Alternate missed Procedures



AVN Function Realignment• AVN (AJW-3); Flight Inspection, Remains in

Tech Ops

• IFP Development, Production and Publication now resides in MSS (AJV-0)

– Aeronav Products (AJV-3)– The AIRNAV database now in Aeronautical

Information Managament (AJV-2)– Flight Procedure Offices (FPO), now at Operational

support Groups in the Service Areas



Purpose of Flight Inspection

• Evaluate signal in space – correlate ground measurements to airborne reference

• Evaluate obstacles within flight path area• Evaluate flight procedures for pilot

workload, flyability and infrastructure support



Types of Flight Inspection

Commissioning New Installations optimally configured New Instrument Procedures

Periodic Facilities and Obstacle Assessments

Specials Post Accident Facility Maintenance User Complaints (e.g., Wind Turbines) Radio Frequency Interference (RFI) Combat/Contingency/Shipboard TACAN

NextGen Implementation ADS-B, RNP, LPV/LP WAAS, LAAS, ASDE-X



Radio Frequency Interference (RFI)• Aircraft are equipped with a Spectrum Analyzer and

Direction Finder to identify RFI

• AVN works closely with the Spectrum Office to determine whether a Flight Check can help in finding RFI sources

• Many successful RFI missions have been flown since the Program was Initiated



Nextgen Initiatives• ADS-B Coverage

• Wide Area MultiLat (WAM)

• LAAS/GBAS

• ASDE-X

• PBN Procedures (RNP; LPV; LNAV; VNAV)



Scheduling Process

• Specials generate itinerary – Congressional/ High Air Traffic Impact– Return to service– Provide new service

• Periodic inspections are the filler (dates not a factor)

• Maximize on-facility/minimize enroute



Periodic

Procedure Requests

NAS Requests FOMSDatabase

FOMSUser

InterfaceMission

Workload

AircraftAvailable

CrewAvailable

ScheduleAircraft

ScheduleCrew

CreateItinerary

PerformFlight

Inspection

MetRequirements

AssignPriority

DetermineRequirement

DetermineRequirement

DetermineResult

Low(Filler)

High(Driver)

Did Not MeetRequirements



Geo display: Balance of Efficiency and Response Time



AssignPriority

8200.1PriorityNAS

Impact

Efficiency PoliticalImpact

Weather

RiskManagement

HumanResourcesTimeliness

Of Request

Low, (Filler) High, (Driver)

Low Priority (Filler) – More weight is given to Scheduling Efficiency. Scheduling will be fitted in with other Workload, while trying to minimize Enroute time

High Priority (Driver) – More weight is given to Response Time. Schedules will be created for A priority response

PublicationCutoff Date

Air TrafficFlow

Technical OpsSupport



30 Day Outlook - Periodic

14 17 2034 35 36 3637 34 31 31 24 28 2524 22 15 10 15 17 21

020

406080

100

120140160

180200

8/7 8/14 8/21 8/28 9/4 9/11 9/18

Eastern Central Western

Service Area Outlook

GOAL60



120 Day Outlook - Periodic

555 542 560641

690 685 683

495 510559

621 598 620575

310 325 297 309255 251 218

0100

200300

400500600

700800

9001000

8/7 8/14 8/21 8/28 9/4 9/11 9/18

Eastern Central Western

Service Area Outlook

GOALS: Eastern 400 Central 500 Western 250

Goal

Goal

Goal



Week of 9/ 18/ 11 Total Mission Impact

(363.4 Hours Scheduled)

Hrs Flown, 68%248.7 hrs

Hrs Not Flown, 32%114.7 hrs

Hrs Flown Hrs Not Flown



17.3

67.0

30.4

0.0

20.0

40.0

60.0

80.0

100.0

Ops Issues Weather Aircraft Availability

Week of 9/ 18/ 11 Actual Hrs Impacted(114.7 Hrs Impacted)



0.05.0

10.015.020.025.030.035.040.045.050.0

ACY ANC ATL BTL OKC INTL SAC

Week of 9/ 18/ 11 Mission Impact By FIFO

Weather Tech Ops Support Air Traffic Crew

Schedule Planning Mission Planning Schedule Effectiveness Admin/Trng

Signal Availability Airport Services Crew Duty Data / Procedures

FI Software Enviro-Impacts Aircraft Availability

29.5

7.3

34.2

19.0

4.410.69.7



Statistics for FY 2011

• Periodic 4775 8561• Special 5630 5247

• Procedural 2279 3135

• Misc (training, ferry, test)1854• DoD 1912 1909

*16,450 Total Flight hours

Flight Hours* Count



Flight Inspection Measures

• Number of IFPs inspected in the cycle

• Flight Inspection Lead time

• Flight Inspection IFPs Completed By Number of Days

• Flight Inspection Results Feedback

• Categories for UNSAT and Change Requirements (Does not include military related data)

• Custom Database Use Rate



Flight InspectionNumber of IFPs Inspected

619

432474

446

339

547

778

0

100

200

300

400

500

600

700

800

9/23/10 11/18/10 1/13/11 3/10/11 5/5/11 6/30/11 8/25/11



Flight Inspection Lead Time

52.3%

40.1%

4.5%

3.1%

59.1%

31.5%

6.0%

2.8%

58.1%

25.3%

12.3%

2.3%

57.4%

30.0%

11.2%

1.3%

63.0%

18.0%

15.0%

3.0%

65.0%

28.0%

7.0%

1.0%

61.0%

26.0%

13.0%

0.3%

09/ 23/ 10 11/ 18/ 11 01/ 13/ 11 03/ 10/ 11 05/ 05/ 11 06/ 30/ 11 08/ 25/ 11

45+ Days 26 - 44 Days 11 - 25 Days 0 to 10 Days

619 Pkgs Received

432 Pkgs Received

474 Pkgs Received

446 Pkgs Received

339 Pkgs

Received

547 Pkgs

Received

778 Pkgs

Received



Flight InspectionIFPs Completed By Number of Days

Goal: 80% with 45 days

619 IFP’s Completed

85.0%

7.0%

2.0%5.0%

1.0%

73.1%

10.0%

9.7%4.6%

2.5%

47.1%

15.3%

28.1%

7.0%

4.0%

67.9%

15.7%

3.1%

9.9%

3.4%

73.0%

12.0%

1.0%11.0%

3.0%

84.0%

5.0%2.0%6.0%

3.0%

86.0%

6.0%2.0%5.0%

2.0%

09/ 23/ 10 11/ 18/ 10 01/ 13/ 11 03/ 10/ 11 05/ 05/ 11 06/ 30/ 11 08/ 25/ 11

Within 45 Days Between 61 - 90 Days Between 91 - 120 DaysBetween 46 - 60 Days Over 120 Days

432 IFP’s Complete

d








Flight Inspection Results Feedback(UNSAT or Change required)

619 432 474 441 339 547 778



Flight InspectionCategories for Unsatisfactory or Sat

w/Changes42 58 40 52 53 93 86



79.0%

10.0%

1.0%

9.0%

68.0%

21.0%

11.0%

70.4%

18.7%

10.8%

81.0%

2.0%

13.0%

93.0%

1.0%6.0%

87.0%

2.0%

10.0%

11/ 18/ 10 1/ 13/ 2011 3/ 10/ 2011 5/ 5/ 2011 6/ 30/ 2011 8/ 25/ 2011

Custom DB Used Custom DB Not UsedData Issue Found Unsat or Required Changes

Custom Database Use Rate

154 175 187 203 88 395



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By: Aviation System Standards, Flight Inspection Services Date:November 21, 2011 Federal Aviation Administration Air Traffic Organization Technical Operations