Safety Spotlight: Closing the Gap Between Procedures and Practice-Reducing Procedural Non-Compliance

Every operator has a manual. Fewer operators can say, with confidence, that the manual matches what actually happens on the line every day. That gap, between the procedure on paper and the procedure in practice, is where procedural non-compliance lives. And it’s rarely a training problem. It’s a systems problem, and closing it is a […]
Ground Operations Working Group July 2026 Update

Ground damage is one of aviation’s most persistent risk areas, and one of its most underreported. It happens on ramps, in hangars, during tows, and on taxiways, often without fanfare and sometimes without anyone knowing exactly when or how. ACSF’s Ground Operations Working Group has spent the past several months building a clearer picture of […]
ASAP Case Studies July 2026

A Lesson in ATC Coordination: When “VFR” and “IMC” Don’t Match I departed [airport] under IFR bound for [airport], cleared via radar vectors to DUNKK and then direct. Shortly after takeoff, Boston Approach offered me a choice: route 15 miles east of Boston, or fly west of the city. I chose the western routing and […]