I would like to send you a report from the meeting in march of the ECAST. I attach the agenda and the approved minutes. Most important is possibly the European Aviation Safety Plan (EASp). It seems that ECAST and EASA avoids those difficult problems that have to do with for example Flight Crew Performance.
Agenda ECAST 1-11 - 10 Mar
Minutes ECAST 1-11 of 10 March 2011
European Aviation Safety Plan 2011-2014
Short Report from the march meeting of ECAST:
I forgot to attach a summary of the last accidents and incidents ¨C ECAST safety review for December. The presentation at this meeting was not published.
65% of 2010 victims come from 4 accidents outside Europe. Very few accidents involved Scheduled flights!
2010 in EASA member states, no fatal accidents in fixed wing, commercial operations! This is the first time! Outside Europe there is little change. No presentation published, because the report is not complete.
Towards a unique Risk Assessment methodology: results of the Risk Classification Workshop of 16 Feb at UK CAA in Gatwick
Towards a common Risk Classification Methodology to make EASA member countries able to monitor properly, etc This work is endorsed by ECAST, supported by EASA, Eurocontrol, FAA and adopted by ICAO and IATA.
Possibilities for ESAM? We need to know where and when the different tasks are addressed. The Plan is attached and is discussed further at the meeting today. Should this plan be taken to the EC and to the organisations to ask if any are of the opinion that ESAM should engage in any, particular issues?
ECAST Safety Implementation Team (SIT):
Suggestion to let the leaders of the different ECAST Working Groups be the members of the SIT.
The group has met with the IATA who has developed it¡¯s own system: ¡°IATA Safety Audit for Ground Operations (ISAGO) is a standardised and structured audit program of Ground Service Providers, with internationally recognised operational standards and highly trained and experienced auditors (from the participating airlines)¡± IATA showed interest in sharing data start a cooperation. This is a very important work towards a standardisation on ground safety!
Reports from teams collecting and analysing the available data from the aviation community. Lot of work ahead, but important also to the development of SMS and harmonisation.
Very important mostly because of the costs: Landing excursions claims: 33% of hull losses in the last 25 years and seems to increase. There will now be a focus on this and one important step forward is a new Runway Overrun Prevention System (ROPS) by Airbus. Airbus has decided to share ROPS cutting©\edge technology for the benefit of the whole aviation industry.
FDM (Flight Data Monitoring) is an important issue within EASA for the moment. EASA has initiated a voluntary European FDM operators forum. Part of the Safety Analysis to my opinion.
This ends my short summary. I realise now that the most important ECAST work is the slowly integration and standardisation work + some important working group achievements. I am learning a lot and is still hoping for more medical related issues to come up! Important is also the contacts I can establish with other persons in the Team if ESAM need it.
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