Runway Safety Programs Presentation summary

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Runway Safety ProgramsPresentation summary

• Runway Safety Workshop
• 910 September
• Brussels

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AFR Runway Safety Programm

• Figures and priorities
• AF safety program 1996 to 2002
• Focus training, procedures, equipment
• What we should do better in Europe

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Air Transport Safety Challenge
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Safety Priorities Based on fatalities per
accident

• Midair Collision
• Loss of Control
• CFIT
• Runway Collision

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Mortality Rates Three Fatal Jet-to-Jet Runway
Collisions Since 1970
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Risk Management Process

• Monitoring of precursors
• Identification and assessment of DEFENSES
• Implementation of prevention strategies
• For the Runway Collision Risk this means
• Monitoring and analysing RUNWAY events gt runway
  incursions runway/taxiway confusions

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AFR Runway Safety Programm

• 1996 Survey (questionnaire to all AF pilots).
• 1997 Safety Publications (Risk awareness).
• 1998 Recurrent training safety conferences.
• 1998 CDG Airport/AF reporting partnership.
• 2000 Pilot procedural changes.
• 2000 Support to the runway incursion issue at
  JSSI.
• 2001 Encouraging commitment of partner
  airlines.
• 2001/02 Participation to European initiatives.
• 2002 On board equipment review.

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Focus Pilot Procedures

• Workload and error management
• Departure briefing
• Check list
• Passengers welcome announcement
• Lessons from Taipei runway confusion

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Focus Recurrent Training

• Case study to all pilot in 2000/01
• Cargo flight at JFK
• 600 m visibility at night
• Landing on 22L
• ATC taxi clearance with hold short instruction
• 3 seconds after, a new taxi clearance perceived
  and acknowledge as a cancellation of the hold
  short instruction
• AF cross rwy22R
• A take off was in progress on runway 22R

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ATC   AF6498 heavy turn right, high speed
taxiway, taxi via Zoulou and Golf, hold short of
rwy 22R  
ATC In fact AF6498 heavy, Ill tell you what .
Just taxi straight ahead on Juliet, straight
ahead on juliet an hold short of 22R.
AF  Straight ahead on Juliet, and NO hold
short of 22R.
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Focus Recurrent Training

• Question to the trainees
•  How this could have been avoided ? 
• Answer
•  CROSS  should have been pronounced by ATC
  and acknowledged by the crew.
•  CROSS  was never pronounced by ATC

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Focus onboard equipment
Runway Awareness and Alert System

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Safety information sharing

• What we should do better in Europe
• Better reporting and sharing of runway events
• Better investigation of significant runway events
• Better sharing of investigation reports
• Better use for training of documented events
• Better sharing of Pilots best practices
  (benchmarking)
• Better sharing of ATC best practices
  (benchmarking)
• Better risk assessment of simultaneous VHF
  emission
• Better monitoring of call signs confusions
  scenarios

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About ATC communication

• A lot of opportunities for improvement
• Just an example to think about

• In this case an ATC instruction with
  transponder hold short off tower frequency.
• Pilots high probability of error
• ATC low probability of detection of the error
  through read back check

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An obvious point

• Those who worry about runway collisions are
  not crying wolf. The wolf is on the runway.
  Arnold Barnett(MIT)