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