Flight Safety Foundation (FSF) has developed a new tool to reduce the risk of approach-and-landing accidents, particularly those involving runway excursions. The latest product is a set of safe-landing guidelines that are intended to be used by aircraft operators to enhance existing standard operating procedures.
The Foundation began its approach-and-landing accident reduction (ALAR) effort in 1998 with the release of a report titled “Killers in Aviation.”1 This was followed in 2001 by the introduction of the ALAR Tool Kit, a CD-based product that includes pilot briefing notes, videos, presentations, risk-awareness checklists and other material designed to prevent approach-and-landing accidents. The Foundation completed a major update of the tool kit in 2010.2
More than 40,000 ALAR Tool Kits have been distributed worldwide, and the Foundation’s CFIT and Approach-and-Landing Action Group has conducted 35 ALAR workshops around the world…
