Building a Strong Business Case for Aviation Safety with the ACSF Safety ROI Calculator
Safety professionals know where the risks are. The ACSF Safety ROI Calculator makes it presentable. Every day, safety professionals identify hazards, evaluate operational exposures, and develop practical solutions that can reduce the likelihood of an accident or incident. The challenge isn’t usually recognizing what needs to be done; it’s gaining approval to do it. For […]
Ground Operations Working Group June 2026 Update
The Ground Operations Working Group has reached a milestone moment, as ground operations safety data has been compiled and is awaiting presentation to the working group. This reflects the willingness of stakeholders to provide data that furthers this discussion, and the dedication of ACSF staff to ensure it is compiled and available for review. Thank […]
ASAP Case Studies June 2026
Operated with Incorrect and Out of CG Weight and Balance During recent flights, we used the automatically generated weight and balance reports provided by the flight dispatch system. I observed that several of these reports showed Weight and Balance figures outside the aircraft’s approved limitations and service envelope. The automated Weight and Balance calculations appear […]
You’re Responsible for That Too: Managing Third-Party Risk in Business Aviation
In business aviation, operators often have a vast network of third-party vendors, most of whom touch on the operator’s own safety and compliance. How can you manage risk that you’re responsible for, but don’t have direct control over? It’s one of the most persistent challenges in the industry, and nobody has fully solved it. What […]
The Launch of Serious About Safety – The ACSF Podcast
Welcome to the first episode of the Serious About Safety Podcast from the Air Charter Safety Foundation. In this episode, Clarifying the Cabin Role, we take a closer look at the critical role cabin personnel play in business aviation safety. While flight attendants are often associated with customer service and hospitality, their responsibilities go far beyond passenger comfort. Cabin […]
Safety Spotlight: Risk Tolerance: The Foundation Beneath Every Risk Decision
In any functional safety system, the key component is effectively managing risk. We talk a lot about identifying hazards, mitigating them, and following up to ensure those mitigations hold. Simple enough in concept. But there’s one conversation that needs to happen before any of that work is meaningful, and it’s the one most organizations skip. […]
Safety Spotlight: From Checklist to Capability: Rethinking Emergency Response Plans
Emergency Response Plans (ERPs) are like insurance: you have them, but hope you never need to use them. Unlike insurance, though, they are not “set and forget” documents. ERPs should be all-encompassing, heavily trained, regularly reviewed, and routinely exercised. You don’t want the first live event to be the first time your ERP has been […]
ASAP Case Studies for April 2026
Security Issue – Customs Upon arrival in Las Vegas at [FBO name], the flight was required to clear Customs. The crew was supposed to keep the aircraft door closed until a customs officer arrived and granted permission to open it. The captain, [name], unintentionally opened the aircraft door, treating the arrival as a normal domestic […]
Ground Ops Safety Series: Inside ACSF’s Ground Operations Working Group
In the summer of 2025, what started as a small, informal conversation between a few carriers has become a groundbreaking working group powered by the Air Charter Safety Foundation. At the beginning of 2026, ACSF formed the Ground Operations Working Group, designed to compare data, incident rates, and ground operations procedures to build recommendations that […]
ASAP Case Studies for March 2026
Aircraft Damage/Encounter – Aircraft Configuration After completing the oral knowledge evaluation of [name] under observation by FAA POI, we notified line service at KTEB that we were ready to depart. They informed us that they needed to move the aircraft to a different location due to the new procedures on the ramp. Once the aircraft […]