Runway Excursions Examined at Safety Summit
Runway excursions are trending upward significantly, but new approaches to go-around decision-making can reduce such mishaps. This is information that safety experts reported in May at the Flight Safety Foundation’s 2022 Business Aviation Safety Summit (BASS) in Savannah, Georgia. More than 60 years of accident data show runway excursions have accounted for 30 percent of […]
Nonprofit Offers Affordable SMS Service to HAI Operator Members
The Air Charter Safety Foundation (ACSF) was founded as a nonprofit organization in 2008 with a mission to lead and support the advancement of the highest aviation safety standards. By sharing information and resources, the foundation helps personal and business aviation entities provide safe operations. SAFETY IS JOB NO. 1 The ACSF is run by […]
Flight Data Monitoring’s Path Forward: Safety Plus Sustainability
What is flight data monitoring? How does it tie into your existing safety management system? This article by James McKenna at the AerospaceTechReview.com explains Flight data analysis providers are expanding their portfolios of services to help aircraft operators derive more value from the flood of information streaming off their flights every day. Companies like GE […]
VIDEO: ASAP for Helicopter Operators
HAI’s Director of Safety Chris Hill talks to the ACSF’s President, Bryan Burns, about the ACSF’s Aviation Safety Action Program (ASAP) for helicopter operators. The following video was filmed in March, 2022 at the HELI-EXPO 2022 in Dallas, Texas. Below is a modified transcript of the video: Chris Hill: Hi, I’m Chris Hill, the Director of […]
ACSF Symposium Highlights Positive Work Culture Issues
As aviation reporting programs continue to expand as a key means to elevate safety, so too has the need for positive cultures to ensure the success of such programs, according to speakers at the recent 14th annual Air Charter Safety Foundation Safety Symposium. Workplace culture was among several safety themes highlighted during the two-day symposium […]
Ten Steps to Safer Charter
When your aircraft is down for maintenance or you have executives traveling in different directions at the same time, you may have need for supplemental lift. While legality checks, Safety Management Systems (SMS), third-party audits, and data sharing are all key indicators of an operator’s embrace of safety best practices, here are ten specific questions […]
Avemex is the First Non-US Operator to Complete the ACSF IAS
Avemex has completed its IAS certification, the first to do so outside the US. Avemex is an aircraft management and charter firm with 22 aircraft, an exclusive representative of Honda and Quest in Mexico. “Avemex was interested in obtaining the ACSF Industry Audit Standard so as to evaluate all our internal processes and procedures with […]
Owning the Go-Around Button
New approach training improves go-around decision-making While we practice go-arounds in the sim, we seldom do them in the real world. However, accident data suggest we should judiciously use them when an approach isn’t going as planned. However, for the most part we are not given the tools in training we need to assess how […]
Air Charter Safety Is All About Culture
While the air charter industry is experiencing a business boon during the global COVID-19 recovery, some recent high-profile Part 135 accidents highlight the need for continued – even urgent – enhancements to safety. The reduction in some companies’ hiring requirements, along with more turnover than typically seen in the industry, can also create risks, especially […]
C-FOQA (FDM) is No Time for FOMO
When it comes to obscure abbreviations, social media has nothing on aviation. Our industry has been immersed in acronyms since the dawn of radio communications. But IMHO, sometimes it’s important for the rest of us – particularly business aircraft owners and charterers – to know what letters like C-FOQA and FDM stand for. In C-FOQA Is No Time […]
