Even the smallest civil aviation service providers1 today are expected to routinely utilize safety data to assess their current performance and risk indicators, says a team of Flight Safety Foundation researchers. In 2015, they studied safety data collection and processing systems (SDCPS) in the Pan America and Asia and Pacific regions, as defined by the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO).
In its first 12 months, the FSF Global Safety Information Project (GSIP) conducted initial research under a cooperative agreement2 with the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) into the challenges of creating effective SDCPS worldwide. All stakeholders engaged by the team were collecting increasing volumes of safety data to make better assessments of risk, said Mark Millam, FSF vice president, technical, and GSIP project leader. Yet, the safety experts who participated in GSIP focus groups in 12 cities were candid about impediments, he said in a brief summary of findings and conc…
