The NATS Experience Runway Safety at Heathrow

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The NATS ExperienceRunway Safety at Heathrow

• Peter Tomlinson
• Manager of ATC, London Heathrow

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The NATS Experience

• Phraseology
• ATC Procedures
• Reporting sharing of lessons
• Airside driving
• Use of technology
• Training

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The NATS Experience

• Phraseology
• Common language, use of ICAO standards
• ATC Procedures
• All Runway crossings use a single frequency
• Mandatory read back of all ATC instructions
• Standard Operating Procedures strip management
• Safety Management System - triple sign off
• Reporting sharing of lessons
• Mandatory reporting of ATC incidents
• NATS Airports wide lesson learning framework
• Lesson learnt from US on hot-spot maps

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The NATS Experience

• Airside driving
• Runway inspections carried out opposite direction
  to traffic movements
• Airside driving licenses
• Use of technology
• Guided taxiway lighting system
• ASMGCS
• RIMCAS

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The NATS Experience

• Airside driving
• Runway inspections carried out opposite direction
  to traffic movements
• Airside driving licenses
• Use of technology
• Guided taxiway lighting system
• ASMGCS
• RIMCAS

• ATC Training
• Runway incursions trained for in TRUCE before
  validation

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The NATS Experience

• However, runway incursions still happen