Aviation Weather Services A Call For Federal Leadership and Action (1995) / Chapter Skim
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Together, they have the resources to significantly improve aviation weather services, but they will achieve this goal only if they act in a concerted effort so that their individual actions are mutually reinforcing. Vigorous leadership within the federal government and the personal accountability that comes with a sense of ownership are needed to build consensus and coordinate the overall effort to optimize aviation weather services and related research.
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Aviation Weather Services SEPARATION OF AIRCRAFT FROM HAZARDOUS VVEAT~R Major Recommendation The FAA should adopt the philosophy that weather services are an important part of its air traffic responsibilities; it should develop procedures and weather products to improve the ability of pilots and air traffic controllers to ensure that aircraft avoid hazardous weather.3 The FAA, which is heavily influenced by active and former air traffic controllers, seems to have developed a general cultural bias against increasing its involvement with weather and weather-related issues. During the next few years, however, advanced aviation weather services and systems could increase the accuracy and timeliness of weather information that is available to users of aviation weather services, including air traffic controllers.
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In fact, federal law directs the FAA administrator "to make recommendations to the Secretary of Commerce for providing meteorological service necessary for the safe and efficient movement of aircraft in air commerce" (Title 49~.6 In 1977, the FAA and NOAA approved a memorandum of agreement that established the following procedure to implement this requirement: "The FAA will continually review aviation weather requirements and the Secretary of Transportation will transmit at least annually to the Secretary of Commerce a letter of recommendations.... NOAA will then have an opportunity to respond to the FAA requirements and take appropriate planing and budgetary actions." Developing a common understanding of aviation weather requirements between the FAA and NOAA is the critical first step in assessing current aviation weather services and in planning improvements.
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For example, an airline passenger equipped with a laptop computer and a modem can use onboard telephones to obtain up-to-date graphic weather products via Internet or directly from private weather services. In many cases, these products are superior to the weather products that airline pilots can access from the cocl~it.
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This committee concurs with other advisory groups, such as the National Research Council's National Weather Service Modernization Committee and an interagency panel convened by the Office of the Federal Coordinator for Meteorology, that have recommended increasing the priority for developing an effective system for highresolution observations of atmospheric water vapor. A strong program of aviation weather research, with specific priorities based on user needs, would contribute markedly to enhanced safety and efficiency of flight.
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1994. Presentation by Greg Salottolo, National Transportation Safety Board, to the National Aviation Weather Services Committee, at the National Academy of Sciences, Washington, D.C., September 1, 1994.
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to improve the ability of air traffic controllers at airports to detect windshear and warn pilots. A TDWR system would have been operational at the Charlotte airport prior to the crash of flight 1016 if the FAA had installed it on schedule.
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