Safety Bulletin IFALPA: Ninoy Aquino International Airport (MNL), the Philippines
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 IFALPA: Fatigue Risk Management Systems (FRMS) Overview & Guidance
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 (...)
Brèves internationales du SNPL France ALPA – Mai – Juin 2021
Press Release: E4FC calls on the European Commission to safeguard fair competition in the EU-Qatar Air Transport Agreement
Today the Council of the EU adopted the signature of the comprehensive air transport agreement between the European Union and the State of Qatar. Now that the agreement is signed, Europeans for Fair Competition (E4FC) would like to point out that the parties will need to deliver on the comprehensive fair competition provision, which includes commitments on transparency and allows for safeguard measures in case of breach. Therefore, E4FC calls on the Commission from the outset to take the necessary steps to ensure a proper and effective implementation of this provision and to safeguard fair competition (...)
Position Paper IFALPA: Interval Management
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 IFALPA: CAVS-CDTI Assisted Visual Separation
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 IFALPA: ATC Deviation Issues in the Nicosia FIR
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 (...)
Briefing Leaflet IFALPA: Follow the TCAS RA?
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 (...)
Position Paper IFALPA: Implementation of the Future of Air Traffic Operations
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.
Position Paper IFALPA: Implementation of the Future of Air Traffic Operations
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.