Posts about stuff relating to airports
Global Reporting Format: Further Viewing
As you can imagine, our discussion so far has leaned towards the airport side of the GRF story. So, for today, I thought I would share a couple of videos that discuss the GRF from a pilot’s point of view.
Developing Policy for Safe Landings: the Global Reporting Format in Australia
Complete alignment with ICAO is, generally, a good policy to have. Their standards and recommended practices (as well as guidance material) are developed in a thoughtful and considerate way. This process is slow and methodical (perhaps frustratingly so at times). Experts from around the world participate, often in their own time and in addition to their day job, with further support from the ICAO Secretariat. For my part, I enjoy being a part of this process.
But what happens with the standards that don’t quite gel with the operational environment in your state?
But what happens with the standards don’t quite gel with the operational environment in your state?
Accident Review: Southwest Airlines 1248 Runway Surface Condition Reporting
In my day job, I've been working on Australian standards for implementing the Global Reporting Format (GRF). Unfortunately, as with many advances in aviation, this was a change brought about by an accident. While it was likely that there were many influential accidents and incidents, I want to analyse the critical inciting event in this post.
Southwest Airlines Flight (SWA) 1248 was miraculous in that everyone on the aircraft survived. But it was also tragic with the death of a child not even at the airport. And it triggered a lot of action by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), the International Civil Aviation Organisation, and many other civil aviation authorities.