Bill Strauss, "Avionics Interference from Portable Electronic Devices: Review of the
Aviation Safety Reporting System Database," pending in the Proceedings of the 21st Digital Avionics Systems Conference.
According to NASA's
Aviation Safety Reporting System (ASRS), "problems in pilot/controller communications continue to be acute." Over the years, the ASRS has culled its data to publish several studies on pilot/controller communication problems.
Following are two examples, from NASA's
Aviation Safety Reporting System.
Instead, ATC usually vectors a flight to join the final approach course somewhere between the initial approach fix (IAF) and the final approach fix (FAF), or we join an approach segment accompanied by the notation "NoPT." Yet, a recent issue of the NASA
Aviation Safety Reporting System publication Callback highlighted how confusing the procedure turn/no procedure turn decision can be.
The NASA
Aviation Safety Reporting System (ASRS; see the sidebar on the following page) provides this example of how the Canadian chart works, using the airport at Whitehorse, in the Yukon Territory, which is at approximately 2300 feet msl.
Think of it as an expanded, near-real-time version of the
Aviation Safety Reporting System (ASRS) run by NASA.
Though organizers tailor Standdown to issues common to corporate aviation, as NTSB and NASA's
Aviation Safety Reporting System data show, fatigue is not an issue limited to turbine pilots.