Fact: there are on average more than two runway incursion events in Europe every day. A lot of effort is going into eliminating the reasons for runway incursions… These range from improving procedures to increasing awareness of pilots, air traffic controllers and ground vehicle drivers of the dangers a runway represents. Now you too can… Continue reading Test your knowledge of airport characteristics!
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Goodies for the fight against runway incursions
Although we hear the word runway excursion more often these days than runway incursion, these latter remain a problem and constant efforts are required to maintain the awareness of the dangers involved in stumbling on an active runway without clearance. Training of pilots, air traffic controllers and vehicle drivers is essential of course. Additionally, posters… Continue reading Goodies for the fight against runway incursions
Aircraft based tools in the fight against runway incursions
Aircraft-based airport surface traffic indications and alerting systems This is an edited version of the presentation made at the recent ESAVS 2010 conference by Doug Arbuckle of the FAA. Coauthors of the paper were David E. Gray of FAA, Peter Moertl of Mitre Corporation and Jim Duke of SAIC. You can download the original text of… Continue reading Aircraft based tools in the fight against runway incursions
The communications related aspects of runway incursions
More than two incursions a day… Few other incidents return with the grim and persistent regularity of runway incursions. A lot of effort by all concerned has resulted in a reduction of the total number of incidents but there are still, on average, more than two runway incursions in Europe per day. Clearly, there remains… Continue reading The communications related aspects of runway incursions
New tools in the arsenal to prevent runway incursions – RWSL and FAROS
Although take-offs and a landing from and on taxiways had filled the news recently, the problem of runway incursions is much more of a problem and in spite of major efforts on the part of all concerned, pilots, air traffic controllers and ground vehicle drivers, it refuses to go away. Not that there are no… Continue reading New tools in the arsenal to prevent runway incursions – RWSL and FAROS
Runway incursion prevention – know your hot spots
News from EUROCONTROL’S aviation safety knowledge base SKYbrary It is well known to pilots and air traffic controllers alike that some parts of the runway/taxiway complex at aerodromes seem to attract incidents. As if they were jinxed in some way, mistakes are made regularly at these singularities of the airport universe. On roads internationally standardized… Continue reading Runway incursion prevention – know your hot spots
Videos that show the impossible
The company bringing you Roger-Wilco, BluSky Services is also well known for its multimedia and video products as well as its web design prowess. Some of our videos were created for clients who wanted to show the impossible. Like runway incursions as they were happening. Using cutting edge technology, we have recreated a number… Continue reading Videos that show the impossible
Runway incursions – a portal full of help
Flying is several orders of magnitude safer than road travel, we all know that. Yet there is a curious element of commonality between those two modes of transport, representing a serious danger in both. Drivers who manage to get onto the wrong side of a motorway and aircraft or ground vehicles that blunder onto the… Continue reading Runway incursions – a portal full of help