Armann Norheim, Rapporteur of the ICAO Friction Task Force speaks to Bryan Camoens on the issues facing airfields around the globe, wet weather conditions and how maintainence and planning schedules should be set. Bryan Camoens: What are some of the issues that airfields are facing across the globe? Armann Norheim: Increased focus on safety areas… Continue reading Great potential in addressing the quality of the runways
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Airfield Engineering Asset Maintenance – A sector report
This article was compiled by Bryan Camoens and Ed Haines for the Airfield Engineering and Asset Maintenance 2011 Conference. You can contact Bryan here. To visit the conference web-site, click here. Airport engineers, operational and maintenance heads are working under extremely challenging operational scheduling and cost constraints. In addition new, larger aircraft types and higher… Continue reading Airfield Engineering Asset Maintenance – A sector report
Beyond the runway end safety area
News from EUROCONTROL’s aviation safety knowledge base SKYbrary The consequences of many runway excursions, especially overruns, are made much more serious because the aircraft end up beyond the actual or nominal confines of the ICAO-defined Runway End Safety Area (RESA) and is catastrophically damaged because of major obstructions or terrain changes encountered soon after this… Continue reading Beyond the runway end safety area