Federal Aviation Voluntary Administration Reporting Programs Presented to: KOCA By: Anthony Ferrante Date: April 30, 2014 Strategy for Overseeing a Large Organization • Exploit all resources – The people performing the service have valuable insights • Technology will not take you everywhere you need to go – Some mandatory reports could be automatically captured by software • Encourage a safety culture – Voluntary safety reporting programs are part of a positive, vibrant, safety culture Federal Aviation Administration Philosophy for Voluntary Reporting Programs • Value mistakes • Learn from mistakes • Make safety improvements 誤解の価値を理解する事 • from mistakes 誤解から学ぶ事 Federal Aviation Administration Components of a Voluntary Reporting Program REGULATOR Employee Reports EVENT REVIEW COMMITTEE MANAGEMENT EMPLOYEE REPRESENTATIVE REPRESENTATIVE Federal Aviation Administration Voluntary Reporting Programs • An oversight authority is a critical component of a voluntary reporting program • These programs use employee input to identify: – significant safety concerns and issues, – operational deficiencies, – non-compliance with regulations, – deviations from policies and procedures, and – unusual safety events Federal Aviation Administration Acceptable Reports • Must be inadvertent • Must not involve gross negligence (that is, the individual did not intentionally introduce risk) • Must not appear to involve criminal activity • Must not appear to involve substance abuse, controlled substances, or alcohol • Must not appear to involve intentional falsification Federal Aviation Administration FAA Voluntary Reporting Programs • Aviation Safety Information Analysis and Sharing (ASIAS) • Aviation Safety Action Program (ASAP)- Industry employees • Air Traffic Safety Action Program (ATSAP)- Air Traffic Control employees • ATO Safety and Technical Training Program (T-SAP) Technical Operations Services employees Federal Aviation Administration Aviation Safety Information Analysis and Sharing (ASIAS) ASIAS Overview Federal Aviation Administration What is ASIAS…. A collaborative Government and Industry initiative on data sharing & analysis to proactively discover safety concerns before accidents or incidents occur, leading to timely mitigation and prevention. Federal Aviation Administration ASIAS moves from REACTIVE Analysis to PROACTIVE Analysis From “What went wrong?” To “What COULD go wrong?” Federal Aviation Administration Photo Credits: National Transportation Safety Board 10 ASIAS Members 4 Government Members 46 Commercial Members FAA ABX Air Mesa Airlines NASA Air Wisconsin Airlines Miami Air International Naval Air Force Atlantic Alaska Airlines National Airlines USAF Safety Center Allegiant Air North American Airlines 9 Industry Members Aloha Air Cargo Omni Air International A4A American Airlines Piedmont Airlines AIA American Eagle Airlines (Envoy) Polar Air Cargo Airbus Atlas Air PSA Airlines ALPA Cape Air Republic Airlines APA (representing CAPA) Chautauqua Airlines Shuttle America Boeing CommutAir Silver Airways NACA Compass Airlines SkyWest Airlines NATCA Delta Air Lines Southern Air RAA Empire Airlines Southwest Airlines 9 General Aviation Members Endeavor Air Spirit Airlines Altria Evergreen International Airlines Sun Country Airlines Boeing Executive ExpressJet Trans States Airlines CitationAir FedEx Express United Airlines Flexjet Frontier Airlines United Parcel Service Jet Edge International GoJet Airlines US Airways Midwest Aviation Hawaiian Airlines Virgin America NetJets Horizon Air World Airways Pfizer JetBlue Airways Travel Management Company Kalitta Air Federal Aviation Administration As of 1 February 2014 Part 121 and Part 121/135 Operators ASIAS Members Non-ASIAS Members Ineligible for ASIAS Membership (No approved ASAP or FOQA Program) Federal Aviation Administration ASIAS Proprietary – Do Not Distribute 12 Example Aviation Datasets Airline Safety Reports Aircraft Data ATC Safety Reports Radar Weather Infrastructure Federal Aviation Administration ASIAS is Governed by Formal Principles Data used solely for Endorsement of voluntary advancement of safety submission of safety-sensitive data Carrier/OEM/MRO data are Transparency – knowledge of de-identified how data are used Procedures & policies Analyses approved by an established through ASIAS Executive Board collaborative governance Federal Aviation Administration 14 ASIAS Is a Key Component of Continuous Improvement in Aviation Safety A collaborative government and industry initiative on data sharing and 010 analysis to proactively 110 010 discover safety 01010000101000100011010101110101011010111 10101010101000101001010101010101001010 concerns before 10101010101010 accidents or incidents occur, leading to timely mitigation and prevention Federal Aviation Administration 15 ASIAS Executive Board Membership Paul Morell, VP, Safety and Regulatory Compliance USAirways (Industry Co-Chair) Peggy Gilligan, Associate Administrator for Aviation Safety, FAA (Government Co-Chair) . Government members: – John Duncan, Director, Flight Standards Service, AFS-1 – Dorenda Baker, Director, Aircraft Certification Service, AIR-1 – Joseph Teixeira, VP Safety Services, Air Traffic Organization – Douglas Rohn, Director, NASA Aviation Safety Program . Industry members: – Mark Millam, Vice President, Operations, A4A – Chuck Hogeman, Executive Air Safety Chairman, ALPA – Craig Hoskins, VP, Safety and Technical Affairs, Airbus – Corky Townsend, Director Aviation Safety, Boeing – George Novak, Assistant Vice President of Civil Aviation, AIA – Steve Hansen, National Air Traffic Controllers Association – Stacey Bechdolt, Director-Safety & Technical Affairs, RAA Federal Aviation Administration Completed ASIAS Studies/Metrics Terrain Awareness Warning System (TAWS) Runway Safety Traffic Alert and Collision Avoidance System (TCAS) Unstable Approach Rejected Takeoffs ASIAS Directed Studies RNAV Departures Pilot/Controller Communications RNAV Arrivals (Misconfigured Takeoffs) Risk of Runway Overrun Missed Approaches Class B Airspace Excursions Energy State Management Known Risk Monitoring Final Approach Overshoot Vulnerability Discovery Approach and Landing Reduction (ALAR) Risk of Near Mid-Air Collision Controlled Flight into Terrain (CFIT) Safety Enhancement Metrics Loss of Control Terrain Awareness Warning System Traffic Alert and Collision Avoidance System Unstable Approach Risk of Runway Overrun Excessive Float Airport & Airline Benchmarks Thrust Lever not Idle at Touchdown Federal Aviation Rejected Takeoffs Administration Example Analysis: TCAS RA Density Map Federal Aviation Administration QUESTIONS? 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