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The Federal Aviation Administration Safer Skies Initiative

The Federal Aviation Administration Safer Skies Initiative. “Aviation Weather!” Where are we?. The Three Teams. Commercial Aviation Safety Team (CAST) Partners in Cabin Safety General Aviation Joint Steering Committee (GA JSC). Who is the GA Joint Steering Committee ?.

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The Federal Aviation Administration Safer Skies Initiative

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  1. The Federal Aviation Administration Safer Skies Initiative “Aviation Weather!” Where are we?

  2. The Three Teams • Commercial Aviation Safety Team (CAST) • Partners in Cabin Safety • General Aviation Joint Steering Committee (GA JSC)

  3. Who is the GA Joint Steering Committee ? • Government GA Joint Committee members • Federal Aviation Administration • National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

  4. Industry GA JointCommitteeMembers • Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association (AOPA) • Experimental Aircraft Association (EAA) • General Aviation Manufacturers Association (GAMA) • Helicopter Association International (HAI) • National Air Transportation Association (NATA) • National Business Aviation Association (NBAA)

  5. Weather • Weather-Related Factor • Weather-Contributing Factor

  6. “VFR Flight Not Recommended”

  7. What’s Being Done?Five Major Strategies • Better weather information. • Improved weather training materials and programs to disseminate them. • Improved low-altitude procedures. • Synthetic vision. • Reduce regulatory barriers to proper weather decisions.

  8. New Technologies – NASA WxAP • Cockpit Weather Information Technologies. • Weather Communications Technologies • Turbulence Prediction and Warning Systems

  9. Cockpit Weather Information Technologies Aviation Weather Information - AWIN Tropospheric Airborne Meteorological Data Reporting (TAMDAR)

  10. Weather Communications Technologies Weather Communication Information - WINCOMM

  11. Turbulence Prediction and Warning System TPAWS

  12. “A great, great deal has been said about the weather, but very little has been done”.* -Mark Twain- *Quotation from 1921 Ford calendar card from the Dave Thomson collection.

  13. Synthetic Vision Test Flight in Eagle Vail, Colorado - 2002

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