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: Fatigue Risk Management Systems (FRMS) Overview & Guidance
30 juin 2021 - In July 2011, ICAO, IATA, and IFALPA developed and co-branded the first edition of the Fatigue Risk Management Systems (FRMS) Implementation Guide for Operators. This guidance has been adopted around the world as a successful path to implement an FRMS (...)
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 (...)
Briefing Leaflet: ATC Deviation Issues in the Nicosia FIR
22 June 2021 - Following the 1974 invasion of Cyprus by Turkey, the administration in the occupied part of Cyprus (unrecognized by the United Nations) established, in 1977, the “Ercan Advisory Area” monitored by “Ercan” station. Its purpose was to seek to exercise air traffic control in the northern part of the Nicosia FIR/UIR and parts of the south- western section of the Ankara FIR/UIR. (...)
Position Paper: Implementation of the Future of Air Traffic Operations
8 juin 2021 - The IFALPA Future Air Traffic Operations (IFATO) document - Second Edition - is guidance material for representatives Member Associations to help bridge the current work program of the committees with projected future topics that will affect our technical work. It should reside between the current work in ICAO working groups and panels and the very high level 18POS03 - IFALPA Vision for the Future of Air Navigation and Weather Information document.
Safety Bulletin IFALPA: Suvarnabhumi International Airport (BKK)
2 June 2021 - The attached IATA Operational Notice alerts airlines of the ongoing risk to aircraft operations at BKK airport due to soft ground conditions affecting the taxiways, taxi lanes, and aircraft stands. Soft ground conditions or “soft spots” have been encountered and reported by flight crews and ground service providers at BKK since at least 2008.
Press Release ECA/IFALPA: Global Pilots on Ryanair Flight 4978
24 May 2021 - The International Federation of Air Line Pilots’ Associations (IFALPA) and the European Cockpit Association (ECA) fully share the concerns expressed by the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) regarding the forced landing of Ryanair Flight 4978 in Minsk, Belarus, on 23 May. Pilots are concerned that the intervention of the Belarussian Air Force was enacted for political reasons, in contravention of the Chicago Convention, and amounts to an act of unlawful interference, bearing all the hallmarks of state-sponsored hijacking (...)
Safety Bulletin IFALPA: Re-Entry of Large Rocket Booster Between 8 and 10 May 2021
5 May 2021 - On April 28, 2021, China launched the core of its “Tianhe” space station. While the launch was successful, the booster stage of the launching Long March 5B rocket was designed for an “uncontrolled” re-entry, and therefore the exact time and location of its return is unknown. As of Wednesday, May 5, the Aerospace Corporation (a defense think-tank) predicted the Long March 5B re-entry time to be 0407z on May 9, 2021, but with a ±24-hour window.