FAA Strategic Planning Flight Plan Update

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FAA Strategic Planning Flight Plan Update
Flight Standards Service

• James Ballough
• Director, Flight Standards Service
• November 2004

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FAA Flight Plan Goals
Flight Standards Service

• Four basic goals
• Increased Safety
• Greater Capacity
• International Leadership
• Organizational Excellence

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Safety Accomplishments
Flight Standards Service

• Safety is FAAs primary mission
• Goal to achieve lowest possible accident rate and
  to constantly improve safety accomplished
  through
• Three year average commercial accident rate
• of 0.22 per 100,000 departures
• Reduction in accidents in Alaska
• Decline in runway incursions, including
• most serious runway incursions

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Capacity Accomplishments
Flight Standards Service

• Goal to work with local governments and airspace
  users to provide airspace system capacity that
  meets projected demand in environmentally sound
  manner addressed by
• Adding new airport runways which has a direct
  impact on increasing capacity to include Houston
  and Orlando
• Working with carriers serving major metropolitan
  areas and corridors that most affect total system
  delays such as carriers serving Chicago OHare

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International Leadership Accomplishments
Flight Standards Service

• Goal to increase safety and capacity of global
  civil aerospace system in environmentally sound
  manner accomplished through
• Three new bilateral agreements with Brazil,
  Singapore, and Iceland
• Increased technical and financial assistance to
  developing countries - Helping Afghanistan and
  Iraq rebuild aviation systems
• Collaboration with ICAO to ensure adoption of
  economically sound environmental standards

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Organizational Excellence Accomplishments
Flight Standards Service

• Goal to ensure the success of the agencys
  mission through stronger leadership, better
  trained workforce, enhanced cost control measures
  and improved decision making based on reliable
  data accomplished by
• Continuing to implement an automated financial
  management system
• Providing training to our executives, managers
  and employees

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Flight Standards
Flight Standards Service

• Is key player in supporting FAAs four goals
  areas of Safety, Capacity, International
  Leadership, and Organizational Excellence.
• Has safety as primary goal.
• Will continue to improve oversight of air
  carriers, training centers and repair stations
  while enforcing safety regulations targeting
  areas posing greatest risk to safety.

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Flight Standards Support of The Flight Plan
Flight Standards Service

• Safety
• Supported initiatives to reduce runway incursions
• Improved information sharing between Airlines and
  the FAA
• Explored innovative and effective ways of
  training our safety workforce
• Prepared for new aviation technologies

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Flight Standards Support of The Flight Plan
Flight Standards Service

• Capacity
• Supported initiatives to mitigate impact of
  weather on capacity
• Supported development of new technologies and
  processes to increase capacity, to include
  development of RNP/RNAV Criteria for all phases
  of flight

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Flight Standards Support of the Flight Plan
Flight Standards Service

• International
• Provided technical assistance and training to
  foreign aviation authorities
• Built international partnerships
• Promoted global standards

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Flight Standards Support of The Flight Plan
Flight Standards Service

• Organizational Excellence
• Improved business practices (ISO
  Certification)
• Implemented better methods of monitoring
  organizational performance

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FAA FY 2005-2009 Draft Flight Plan
Flight Standards Service

• Next Steps
• Review internal and external stakeholders
  comments
• Revise goal initiatives, activities, and
  performance measures
• Add FAA core values to the plan
• Finalize the plan October 2004