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News from EUROCONTROL’s safety knowledge base SKYbrary

Pilots and Air Traffic Controllers Phraseology Study

The International Air Transport Association (IATA), together with the International Federation of Air Line Pilots’ Associations (IFALPA) and the International Federation of Air Traffic Controllers’ Associations (IFATCA), jointly prepared an on-line survey regarding communication issues, focusing on the non-use of ICAO standard phraseology. Separate surveys for both airline Pilots and Air Traffic Controllers (ATC) were… Continue reading Pilots and Air Traffic Controllers Phraseology Study

Flight Deck Procedures – A Guide for Controllers

News from EUROCONTROL’s aviation safety knowledge base SKYbrary It is important for controllers to have a basic knowledge of flight deck procedures and to appreciate what happens on the flight deck as a result of their instructions. With the help of EasyJet and bmi, UK NATS have produced two videos explaining what happens on a… Continue reading Flight Deck Procedures – A Guide for Controllers

Multiple Line-ups on the Same Runway

News from EUROCONTROL’s aviation safety knowledge base SKYbrary. Multiple line-ups is a technique employed at some busy airports to expedite the departure of aircraft from the runway. It concerns departing aircraft being instructed to line-up on the same runway at different positions using different access taxiways and is a significant capacity enabler when implemented in… Continue reading Multiple Line-ups on the Same Runway

Level Bust Toolkit

The new and updated Level Bust Toolkit includes training and awareness material, including videos and e-learning tools, designed to raise awareness of the level bust issue and to help everyone do their bit to reduce level busts. Check out the toolkit at EUROCONTROL’s one stop safety knowledge base, SKYbrary.

New ACAS II Bulleting from EUROCONTROL

The 12th issue of EUROCONTROL’s ACAS II Bulletin is now available for download from the SKYbrary here. This issue focuses on pilot training, featuring a number of events based on real-life incidents, and also presents a summary of the findings of  recent research into how pilots react to RAs.

Fatigue manifestations

News from EUROCONTROL’s aviation safety knowledge base SKYbrary. The Operators Guide to Human Factors in Aviation (OGHFA) is a project of the Flight Safety Foundation European Advisory Committee. OGHFA is an extensive compendium of human factors information focused on further advancing commercial aviation safety. The Briefing Note (BN) “Fatigue Manifestations” explores some of the causes,… Continue reading Fatigue manifestations

NSA training initiative program

News from EUROCONTROL’s aviation safety knowledge base SKYbrary. The European Commission’s drive to create a Single European Sky (SES) – where harmonized rules and procedures are utilized across all States – has generated a range of new regulatory rules for both States and ANSPs, many of which necessitate changes in working methods. ANS providers must… Continue reading NSA training initiative program

An old enemy – radiation fog

News from EUROCONTROL’s aviation safety knowledge base SKYbrary. As winter approaches in Northern Europe, the risk of Radiation Fog, on a cloudless night, especially within a high pressure system, is increasing. Close monitoring of Dew Point and Temperature difference, and trends over previous days will give an insight into the likelihood of fog which may… Continue reading An old enemy – radiation fog

Take off from wrong intermediate position – report now available

News from EUROCONTROL’s aviation safety knowledge base SKYbrary. The UK AAIB has recently published its final report into the incident at St Kitts on 26 September 2009, when a Boeing 777-200 unintentionally began and completed take off from a different intermediate position on the departure runway than the one intended. The aircraft just succeeded in… Continue reading Take off from wrong intermediate position – report now available