A growing number of business aviation operators, impressed by risk-mitigation methods that work extremely well for airlines, recently began joining the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA’s) Aviation Safety Information Analysis and Sharing (ASIAS) program as full-fledged members. Three leaders of an eight-month recruiting outreach say the willingness of these operators to take part in one of the world’s most advanced safety programs — at minimal cost and under tight security — can be traced back to routine flight data–aggregation groundwork laid about 15 years ago.1,2
Expanding the membership from this segment of general aviation — to 15 members as of August, compared with a total of 45 ASIAS-member airlines — is an essential part of an urgent push toward unprecedented safety data sharing for large-scale risk identification and risk mitigation, according to the leaders (
