With safety management systems deemed essential in aviation, suggestions that risk analysis takes too long would seem out of line. In the context of accelerating implementation of the Next Generation Air Transportation System (NextGen) in the United States, however, the streamlining of risk analysis emerged as one of several safety-related issues raised by 50 speakers and panelists at the RTCA Spring Symposium, held April 6–7 in Washington, with about 350 attendees from the aviation industry and the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).
The event also covered issues such as global compatibility of technology, incentives for air carriers to equip aircraft, business cases, and political and environmental constraints.
Most of the symposium was devoted to how the FAA has adopted 28 recommendations of the 300-member RTCA NextGen Mid-Term Implementation Task Force, also called Task Force 5, which were issued in September 2009 and incorporated into the FAA NextGen Implementat…
