FAAST Blast — Latest Arrival Alert Notices, New Pilot Minute Video on BasicMed, Measuring Success for the Compliance Program

New Arrival Alert Notices Published

Last month, the FAA took another proactive step to address wrong surface events by publishing new Arrival Alert Notices (AAN). AANs provide a graphic visually depicting the approach to a particular airport with a history of misalignment risk as well as language describing the misalignment risk area. 

Wrong surface events continue to be a focus area for the FAA as they can present a significant safety risk. The FAA has taken several steps to address wrong surface events but there is still a need to provide a more permanent awareness of these events, especially to GA pilots, who comprise 83 percent of wrong surface events. Many wrong surface events occur during the daytime and in visual meteorological conditions, and the majority of the time, the pilot has read back the correct landing clearance. AANs can serve as an additional planning and awareness tool for pilots.

The AAN effort started in 2022 by evaluating the top 40 airports for wrong surface arrival risk. AANs were developed for 12 facilities and released in the May 19, 2022, charting cycle, which were then tested for a one-year period. AANs were determined to be successful in mitigating wrong surface landing risk and the agency recently published 28 new AANs, expanding the total AAN library to 40. Learn more about AANs and view a map of available locations at www.faa.gov/airports/runway_safety/hotspots/aan.   

New Pilot Minute Video Covers BasicMed Requirements

In the latest episode of the Pilot Minute video series, Federal Air Surgeon Dr. Susan Northrup reviews the requirements for BasicMed and the mental health, neurologic, or cardiac conditions that would require a pilot by law, to be reexamined by an aviation medical examiner (AME). See this and past Pilot Minute videos here: https://bit.ly/PilotMinute.

Measuring Success with the Compliance Program

The Compliance Program has changed the way the FAA approaches regulatory oversight. Since 2015, the Compliance Program has helped the FAA take over 44,000 compliance actions to address safety concerns. In addition, since fiscal year 2020, FAA’s Flight Standards took compliance actions over 80% of the time when addressing regulatory noncompliance. Dive into the data and learn more about how this program is making an impact in the article “Measuring Success” at https://medium.com/faa/measuring-success-89d08c4665e3 in the Jan/Feb 2024 issue of FAA Safety Briefing. See the entire Compliance Program-themed issue at www.faa.gov/safety_briefing. 

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