TCAS Awareness

News from EUROCONTROL’s aviation safety knowledge base SKYbrary The latest addition to SKYbrary Solutions is “Clear of Conflict”, a series of 10 short videos developed by NATS in association with EUROCONTROL and Flight Safety International, intended as an aid to TCAS training. Check out the videos here.

Military Interception Signalling

News from EUROCONTROL’s aviation safety knowledge base SKYbrary You may have read that the Northwest flight that sailed past its destination recently and was out of communications with ATC for quite a long time was about to be intercepted by fighters… In the distant past, such interceptions were fairly rare except in the communist parts… Continue reading Military Interception Signalling

Bird Strike: Operator’s Checklist

News from EUROCONTROL’s aviation safety knowledge base SKYbrary This is the time of year when birds all over Europe take to the air to start their journey south. Though they are the ultimate examples of Free Flight, migratory birds follow centuries old routes, resting at centuries old landing places, without much regard for their latter… Continue reading Bird Strike: Operator’s Checklist

SKYbrary to be further refined

EUROCONTROL publishes SKYbrary,  an electronic repository of safety data related to ATM and aviation safety in general. It is built of a hyperlinked network of articles and documents. The article is the building nucleus of the knowledge base. It can contain links to other related articles, to documents stored on the Skybrary bookshelf or to… Continue reading SKYbrary to be further refined