Runway Incursion JJ Johnson May 2011 International Coordinating Council of Aerospace Industries Associations Runway Incursion JJ Johnson May 2011 1
Runway Incursion Accidents + Incidents (1995-2008) International Coordinating Council of Aerospace Industries Associations Runway Incursion Accidents + Incidents (1995-2008) Runway Excursion Runway Confusion Runway Incursion Fatal Accidents Non-Fatal Accidents ~500 Category A & B Near Miss R/W Incursions Incidents As you can see by this graph, the majority of the runway safety accidents and fatalities occur in the runway excursion area. Most excursions are survivable, and only a small % are fatal. However, the overall numbers are so large that even that small % adds up to a lot of fatalities. Accident data alone does not fully inform the discussion.
Position of Own Ship on the Airport Surface, International Coordinating Council of Aerospace Industries Associations Eliminating Runway Incursion and Confusion requires Flight Crew Awareness of: Position of Own Ship on the Airport Surface, Position of Other Traffic on the Airport Surface, Taxi Route, Conflicting Traffic.
Program Implementation Considerations International Coordinating Council of Aerospace Industries Associations Program Implementation Considerations Airbus solution to reduce runway incursion and confusion risk is based on On-board Airport Navigation System (OANS) Superimposition aircraft real time position on an airport moving map Improvement of flight crew situation awareness during airport surface operations Selection capability of different modes and zoom with corresponding maps displayed on the Navigation Display Triggering of graphical alerts on Navigation Display when aircraft approaches runways Cornerstone for the integration of surface operations features (brake-to-vacate, taxi route, surrounding traffic, etc.) Design philosophy OANS is not a guidance system and displayed information must be correlated by the pilot with outside world Implementation New equipment: On-board Airport Navigation Computer (OANC) DO272/ED99/ARINC 816 Airport Map Database required Certification Date A380: Certified and in-service since 2007 A320 family: Q1 2012 A330/A340: Q2 2012 A350XWB: At Entry-Into-Service
Program Implementation Considerations International Coordinating Council of Aerospace Industries Associations Program Implementation Considerations Significant fleet coverage needed to achieve widespread safety benefit. New, Derivative and Production Aircraft Retrofit Aircraft Our approach to equipage is different for new airplanes then it is for retrofit. On new airplanes we are balancing cost versus customer requirements and preferred solutions. In retrofit we concerned about fleet penetration. In order to make an impact the feature has to be install on the airplane. This can result in solutions that may not be as elegant. 5
Runway Disagree Alerting International Coordinating Council of Aerospace Industries Associations Available Equipage AMM on Nav Display Situational Awareness AMM on Class 3 EFB Position Awareness (incursion/confusion) In order to mitigate the risk we have developed a spectrum of solutions. VSD, HUD, RNP IAN are solutions that help the crew manage their energy during descent and fly very precisely during approach in order to reduce the risk of excursions. Runway Incursion risk is reduced by know where you are on the airport surface. This is accomplished via an Airport Moving Map on either the Nav Display or an Electronic Flight Bag. RAAS (Runway Alerting Advisory System) is a feature in the Ground Proximity Warning System that also informs the crew of where they are on the airport surface. Smart Runway Alerting Runway Disagree Alerting 6
Available Equipage Positional Awareness via Airport Moving Map Display International Coordinating Council of Aerospace Industries Associations Available Equipage Positional Awareness via Airport Moving Map Display in case of runway proximity 7
Runway Disagree Alerting Available Equipage “On Runway Zero-Nine Left” L 09 “Approaching Zero-Nine Left” 8 Smart Runway 09 L Runway Disagree Alerting 8
Future Equipage Studies Situational Awareness Surface CDTI Position, Taxi Route, & Traffic Awareness, Traffic Alerting Taxi Route Class 2 EFB with AMM – Window Sill Runway Status Indications In the future we are planning on adding additional features to augment our current equipage offerings. Specifically we will add information about other surface traffic to continue to reduce risk of incursion. We will add alerting of traffic conflict. In addition we are working with Honeywell to add additional features to the Ground Proximity System to alert the crew to a unstable approach or the fact they are landing long. Smart Runway Alerting Surface Traffic Conflict Alerts 9
Future Equipage Studies - AMM Airport Moving Map with: Taxi Route Traffic Runway Status Indications Traffic Conflict Alerting 10
Runway Incursion – Bottom Line International Coordinating Council of Aerospace Industries Associations Runway Incursion – Bottom Line Actively committed to government and industry efforts to improve runway safety. CAST, RTCA, FAA, NTSB, FSF, ICAO. Customer & Vendor Collaborations. Aggressively funding research & product development, and providing flight deck solutions for current and future airplanes. 11