1. Air Traffic Organization
Technical Operations Services
Aviation System Standards

2. Aviation System Standards
ATO, Chief Operating Officer
Senior Vice President
Operations
Vice President
Technical Operations Services
Teri Bristol
Vice President
Technical Operations Services
Teri Bristol
Director of
Aviation System Standards
Edward W. Lucke
Aircraft Maintenance & Engineering Group
(Franchise Program)
Joe Doubleday
Flight Inspection Operations Group
Pete Gretsch
Flight Inspection
Services Group
Douglas Vaz

3. Aviation System Standards Locations
Flight Inspection Offices
Headquarters
FAA Command Center AVN Liaison
Flight Procedures Offices (FPO)
AeroNav Services – Silver Spring, MD

4. Flight Program - Aircraft
18 King Air BE-300
4 Challenger CL-600 Series
6 Learjet LR-60
DC-3

5. 2 Challenger 605’s added to fleet; FAA/USAF

6. FAA & USAF Partnership FAA Military Partnerships
AFFSA Det 1 active duty collocated
USAFR unit assigned
Purpose is to receive training and share assets for Military Contingencies
Iraq
Afghanistan
Military Exercises

7. AVN Function Realignment
Effective October 2010
Created Mission Support Services (AJV-0)
Primary Group involving Tech Ops is now “Aeronautical Products” (AJV-3); Known to us a “NFPO” or “AVN-100”
NOTAMS
Procedure cancelation
Alternate missed Procedures

8. AVN Function Realignment
AVN (AJW-3); Flight Inspection, Remains in Tech Ops
IFP Development, Production and Publication now resides in MSS (AJV-0)
Aeronav Products (AJV-3)
The AIRNAV database now in Aeronautical Information Managament (AJV-2)
Flight Procedure Offices (FPO), now at Operational support Groups in the Service Areas

9. Purpose of Flight Inspection
Evaluate signal in space – correlate ground measurements to airborne reference
Evaluate obstacles within flight path area
Evaluate flight procedures for pilot workload, flyability and infrastructure support

10. Types of Flight Inspection
Commissioning
New Installations optimally configured
New Instrument Procedures
Periodic
Facilities and Obstacle Assessments
Specials
Post Accident
Facility Maintenance
User Complaints (e.g., Wind Turbines)
Radio Frequency Interference (RFI)
Combat/Contingency/Shipboard TACAN
NextGen Implementation
ADS-B, RNP, LPV/LP WAAS, LAAS, ASDE-X

11. Radio Frequency Interference (RFI)
Aircraft are equipped with a Spectrum Analyzer and Direction Finder to identify RFI
AVN works closely with the Spectrum Office to determine whether a Flight Check can help in finding RFI sources
Many successful RFI missions have been flown since the Program was Initiated

12. Nextgen Initiatives ADS-B Coverage Wide Area MultiLat (WAM) LAAS/GBAS
ASDE-X
PBN Procedures (RNP; LPV; LNAV; VNAV)

13. Scheduling Process Specials generate itinerary
Congressional/ High Air Traffic Impact
Return to service
Provide new service
Periodic inspections are the filler
(dates not a factor)
Maximize on-facility/minimize enroute

14. Low
(Filler)
Periodic
Assign
Priority
Mission
Workload
NAS Requests
FOMS
Database
FOMS
User
Interface
Procedure
Requests
High
(Driver)
Met
Requirements
Determine
Requirement
Crew
Available
Schedule
Crew
Determine
Result
Create
Itinerary
Perform
Flight
Inspection
Determine
Requirement
Schedule
Aircraft
Aircraft
Available
Did Not Meet
Requirements

15. Geo display: Balance of Efficiency and Response Time

16. in with other Workload, while trying to minimize Enroute time
Weather
Efficiency
8200.1
Priority
Political
Impact
NAS
Impact
Technical Ops
Support
Risk
Management
Air Traffic
Flow
Human
Resources
Publication
Cutoff Date
Timeliness
Of Request
Assign
Priority
High, (Driver)
Low, (Filler)
Low Priority (Filler) – More weight is given to Scheduling Efficiency. Scheduling will be fitted
in with other Workload, while trying to minimize Enroute time
High Priority (Driver) – More weight is given to Response Time. Schedules will be created for
A priority response

17. Service Area Outlook
GOAL 60

18. Service Area Outlook GOALS: Eastern 400 Central 500 Western 250 Goal

21. 34.2
29.5
19.0
10.6
9.7
7.3
4.4

22. Statistics for FY 2011 Periodic 4775 8561 Special 5630 5247
Flight Hours* Count
Periodic
Special
Procedural
Misc (training, ferry, test) 1854
DoD
*16,450 Total Flight hours

23. Flight Inspection Measures
Number of IFPs inspected in the cycle
Flight Inspection Lead time
Flight Inspection IFPs Completed By Number of Days
Flight Inspection Results Feedback
Categories for UNSAT and Change Requirements (Does not include military related data)
Custom Database Use Rate

24. Flight Inspection Number of IFPs Inspected

25. Flight Inspection Lead Time
619 Pkgs Received
474 Pkgs Received
432 Pkgs Received
446 Pkgs Received
339 Pkgs Received
547 Pkgs Received
778 Pkgs Received

26. Flight Inspection IFPs Completed By Number of Days
Goal: 80% with 45 days
619 IFP’s Completed
432 IFP’s Completed
474 IFP’s Completed
446 IFP’s Completed
339 IFP’s Completed
547 IFP’s Completed
778 IFP’s Completed

27. Flight Inspection Results Feedback (UNSAT or Change required)
619
432
474
441
339
547
778

28. Flight Inspection Categories for Unsatisfactory or Sat w/Changes93 86 42 58 40 52 53

29. Custom Database Use Rate
154
175
187
203 88
395

30. Questions?