As acting chief operating officer, I am pleased to help Ken Hylander lead Flight Safety Foundation during this interim period while we work to find Kevin Hiatt’s successor as president and chief executive officer. As Ken said last month, during this period of transition, the Foundation must not be static, but continue to move forward as new challenges arise and old ones come into sharper focus.
Stabilized approaches and go-arounds fall into the latter category, and are what I want to focus on in this month’s message. Ken told you in March that this was one of three areas of particular emphasis for us this year, along with safety data–sharing and protection, and advancing safety in challenging operations, primarily through our Basic Aviation Risk Standard (BARS) program.
An industry focus on stabilized approaches and go-around policy is not new — and that’s actually part of the problem. We’ve been dealing with this issue for many years and have clearly benefited grea…
