Aviation Safety Program

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Aviation Safety Program
Weather Accident Prevention Project Annual
Review

• Hampton, Virginia
• May 23-25, 2000

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Review Objectives

• Solicit feedback on NASAs Weather Safety Plans
  and
• activities from the aviation community.
• QA session after presentations
• Discussion sessions last day of the review
• Survey of NASA plans/products
• Catalyst for future partnerships and
  collaboration with aviation
• community
• Enhanced integration of NASA Weather Accident
  Prevention
• Project Elements
• Preparation for NASA FY01 detailed planning
  activities to start
• 3Q00.

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Review Objectives
FAA and National Weather Service MOA on
Aviation Weather Safety
Aviation Safety Investment Strategy Team
Recommendations
NASA-FAA-Industry- Other Agencies
Planning Workshops and Reviews
National Aviation Weather Initiatives and Plans
NASA-FAA-Industry Joint Safety Assessment
and Implementation Teams
Integration with Other Non-AvSP NASA Projects
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Attendees of Review
NASA AvSP Management/Researchers NASA Base
Management/Researchers FAA NWS NTSB Avionics
Industry Airlines Aircraft Manufacturers Pilot
Associations Aircraft Associations Academia DoD
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Survey

• Evaluate NASAs weaknesses/strengths
• Evaluate NASA products being developed
• Technical Issues
• Coordination Issues
• Implementation Issues
• Others
• Identity disclosure is voluntary
• Use postage-paid envelope
• Summary of surveys will be forwarded to all
  attendees

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Meeting Logistics

• Coffee and snacks available during breaks
• Message Board available at registration table
• Telephone Messages 757-727-9700
• FAX [phone]
• All presentations are on CD-ROM
• List of local restaurants is available at
  registration table

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Day 1 Morning Agenda
800 am Welcome Lewis, LaRC Colantonio
, GRC 815 am Meeting Objectives and
Logistics Colantonio, GRC 830 am Weather
Accident Prevention Project Overview Colantonio,
GRC 900 am Aviation Weather Information
Overview Stough, LaRC Schaffner,
LaRC Shafer, LaRC 1030 am Break 1045
am Weather Information Communications
Martzaklis, GRC Overview Stuharik,
GRC 12-1 pm Lunch
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Day 1 Afternoon Agenda
100 pm Boeing AWIN Transport Development Hibson
/Boeing 130 pm Honeywell AWIN Transport
Development Leger/Honeywell 200 pm ARNAV GA
AWIN Development Williams/ARNAV 230
pm Honeywell GA AWIN Development Haynes/Honeywel
l 300 pm Break 315 pm World-Wide Weather
Information Dissemination Haendel/Honeywell Usin
g Satellite Weather Information Services 345
pm Communication Architecture for
Weather Gallagher/SAIC Information
Dissemination 435 pm Aviation Weather
Information Requirements, Herron/Lockheed Techn
ologies and Solutions Witchey/ACI 530
pm Open Communication Standards/Protocols Grappel
/MIT-LL for Weather Dissemination
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Day 2 Morning Agenda
800 am Route Optimization as a Decision
Aid Hartmann/Honeywell 830 am Aviation
Weather Awareness and Reporting Kil/Rockwell Enh
ancements 900 am Enhanced On-Board Wx
Information System Kelly/Rockwell Collins 930
am Oceanic Weather Hazard Information
Lindholm/NCAR Dissemination System 1000
am Break 1015 am Honeywell E-PIREP
Development Haynes/Honeywell 1045
am Incentives for GA E-PIREP System Kauffman/ODU
1105 am AWIN Implementation Kauffman/ODU 11
25 am Weather Sensor Requirements
Richards/GTRI 12-1 pm Lunch
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Day 2 Afternoon Agenda
100 pm Naval Research Lab Ceiling and
Visibility McCarthy/NRL Weather Product 125
pm NASA-NWS Visiting Scientist
Program Rodenhuis/NWS-AWC 140 pm Break 200
pm Turbulence Detection and Mitigation
Overview Bogue/DFRC 230 pm Turbulence Accident
Reconstruction Kaplan/NCSU 300 pm Enhanced
Radar Development Clark/LaRC Harrah/LaRC
330 pm Airborne Radar Field Data
Analysis Clark/LaRC 400 pm LIDAR
Development Hannon/CTI 430 pm Relationship
Between Airborne Radar Cornman/NCAR Observables
and Predicted A/C G-Loads 450 pm In-Situ
Based Hazard Metric for Turbulence Robinson/Aerote
ch 510 pm Airline Passenger Susceptibility to
Atmospheric Stewart/LaRC Turbulence
Hazards 530 pm In-Situ Turbulence Reporting
System Cornman/NCAR Development and
Application Robinson/Aerotech
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Day 3 Morning Agenda
800 am Turbulence Assessment and Monitoring
System Bass/Search Tech 815 am Turbulence
Mitigation and Control Plan Stuever/LaRC 845
am Turbulence Nowcasting/Forecasting
Products Ehernberger/DFRC 915
am Geo-stationary Imaging FTS (GIFTS) Smith/LaRC
930 am 757 WxAP Flight Experiment
Overview Stuever/LaRC 1000 am Turbulence Joint
Safety Assessment Team Bogue/DRFC Status 1015
am Weather GA Joint Safety Implementation
Team Fiduccia/SAMA Status 1045
am Break Discussion Sessions 1100 am AWIN
System 1115 am E-PIREPS System 1130
am Enhanced Weather Products 1145
am Forward-Looking Turbulence Sensors 12
noon Annual Review Concluded