Safety Bulletin IFALPA: Ninoy Aquino International Airport, the Philippines

06 July 2021 - This IATA Operations Notice alerts airlines of the ongoing risk to aircraft operations at MNL due to unaddressed deficiencies on the airfield. NAIA have implemented initiatives to address the deficiencies, however, current airline safety reports indicate ongoing issues such as surface conditions, charting, signage, marking and lighting.

Position Paper: Interval Management

22 juin 2021 - Interval Management (IM) is an Airborne Surveillance Application (ASA) and provides new means of managing traffic flows and spacing of aircraft based on specific ground and airborne capabilities. It allows the flight crew of a suitably equipped aircraft (so called “IM aircraft”) to achieve and/or maintain an assigned spacing in respect to a designated preceding aircraft, called the “target aircraft” (...)

Position Paper: CAVS-CDTI Assisted Visual Separation

22 juin 2021 - CAVS is an Airborne Surveillance Application (ASA) to assist pilots in maintaining own separation from a preceding aircraft during successive visual approach procedures by showing its position and additional data on a cockpit display. The data of the preceding aircraft is derived from ADS-B Out, received by the succeeding aircraft via ADS-B In and presented to the crew on a Cockpit Display of Traffic Information (CDTI) which can be integrated in the usual navigation displays.

Briefing Leaflet: Follow the TCAS RA?

22 June 2021 - Following the EUROCONTROL report on TCAS RA compliance in 2020, both IFALPA and IFATCA issued a joint statement as a reminder to the pilot and controller community. The Eurocontrol study analysed radar data of TCAS RA events taken over a 12 month period over the core area of Europe. In a first Analysis, it reports only 38% of the RAs were followed correctly, and 34% were even manoeuvred in the opposite direction (...)