Committees
Accident Analysis and Prevention: Fatima Jakoet
- Provide guidance and organisational processes that ensure the Federation’s accident, serious incident and incident investigation activities are focused in the development and implementation of prevention strategies that contribute to improved safety in air transport.
- Formulate and administer IFALPA AAP policies and guidance material.
- Contribute to the development of ICAO Standards and Recommended Practices (SARPs), including associated materials, with regard to accident, serious incident and incident investigation.
- Contribute to the development of State and industry standards, practices, procedures and associated materials with regard to accident, serious incident and incident investigation.
- Provide expert advice to the Executive Board and, on their request, contribute to the work of other Committees and interested parties.
- Promote and support communication and safety information exchange within IFALPA, IFALPA Member Associations and the industry with respect to accident, serious incident and incident investigation.
- Assess investigations into accidents, serious incidents and incidents for completeness including compliance with ICAO Annex 13 and the implementation of preventative safety recommendations.
- Contribute to the development, implementation and proper use of non-punitive safety programmes.
- Collect and communicate information regarding unsafe trends that are identified by accident, serious incident and incident investigations.
- Define standards for and administer the IFALPA Accredited Accident Investigator scheme, as well as facilitate the education and acceptance of investigators.
- Acknowledge and honour outstanding contributions of individuals.
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Aerodrome and Ground Environment: Tony Laubser
The Aerodrome and Ground Environment (AGE) Committee is primarily tasked with providing a liaison between the Airports community, IFALPA, and the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO). The primary focus of our work is to ensure that airports around the world adhere to ICAO Annex 14 (Aerodrome Standards) and to provide input to ICAO on the improvement of the Annex 14 Standards and Recommended Practices (SARPs) as the industry evolves. In order to provide a policy platform from which we can assess the requirements to update ICAO’s Annex 14, we have developed our own IFALPA Annex 14, detailing areas where we feel that improvement is needed. Our mission is to lobby ICAO and the ICAO contracting States to implement our requirements, provide input at the individual airport level on improvements, and to inform our membership where there is a difference between what we advocate as the minimum level and what is currently being provided.
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Aircraft Design and Operation : Vacant
Core Activity: To improve air safety on a worldwide basis by influencing the design of air transport aircraft, their components, their performance and operation and to improve the working environment of the individual airline pilot.
The task of the ADO Committee is to:
- Detect, identify and monitor areas of interest, where input is required to influence the development of technology and/or procedures, to ensure a safe operating environment for the individual airline pilot, using the experience and expertise of its members.
- Develop Policies and Policy Statements on these items, associated with the design and operation of commercial air transport aeroplanes, as broadly defined by the contents of ICA0 Annexes 6 and 8, and associated ICAO documents, to be presented to the respective regulating bodies, authorities and operators, as well as to the interested public.
- Liaise with aircraft manufacturers, system designers and engineers, as well as scientific and regulating bodies, to enhance their understanding of the view and requirements of the airline pilots to improve the safety and operational effectiveness of air transport aviation.
- Develop proactive general statements and position papers for engineers, scientific and regulatory bodies, manufacturers and the general public on present and future developments to be made available for the public via the IFALPA media services.
- Enhance the expertise of the members of the committee and their respective Member Associations by using contacts at scientific, engineering and manufacturing bodies.
- Enhance the general standing of IFALPA, the airline pilots and their associations within the general public by the effort to improve air safety worldwide, as the stakeholder acting for the travelling public.
Air Traffic Services: Darren Oliver
IFALPA monitors the Air Traffic Management (ATM) developments mainly through its ATS Committee. The standing members of the Committee meet twice yearly and actively represent the Federation at various forums in ICAO, Eurocontrol, EASA (the European Aviation Safety Agency), and RTCA participating as subject matter experts.
Terms of Reference
- To prepare and discuss working papers which review, modify and amend IFALPA policy concerning all aspects of communication, navigation, surveillance and air traffic management (CNS/ATM) operations performed by air traffic service providers
- To prepare and discuss working papers dealing with the provision of Meteorological information for aeroplanes and with the provision and operation of Search and Rescue services
- To provide expert advice on air traffic, meteorological and search and rescue issues upon request to the Executive Board, other Committees, Advisory Groups, and interested external parties
- To contribute to the development of relevant ICAO Standards, Recommended Practices, and associated guidance materials The ATS committee provides oversight on the following documents ensuring that the additions and proposed amendments are harmonized and ensure global interoperability;
- ICAO Annex 2, Rules of the Air
- ICAO Annex 3, Meteorology
- ICAO Annex 4, Aeronautical Charts for Use by the Pilot
- ICAO Annex 5, Units of Measurement
- ICAO Annex 10, Communications
- ICAO Annex 11, Air Traffic Services
- ICAO Annex 12, Search and Rescue
- ICAO Annex 15, Aeronautical Information Services
- ICAO PANS ATM (Doc. 4444)
Mission
The mission of the ATS Committee is to improve aviation safety worldwide, to promote a single level of safety to the highest standards possible, applying the professional experience and expertise of the members of the committee. Develop global harmonized policies and positions and to promote the adoption of such policies by ICAO, the respective Regional Body.
Coordination
The ATS Committee works very closely with IFALPA Regional groups such as ECA and ALPA International who in turn represent the global interests of pilots in Europe and North America. The European ATM arena changes very quickly. ECA faces currently a double challenge: They are heavily involved in top level EU activities setting the scene for the future ATM, where a paradigm shift is needed to accommodate expected growth of traffic safely. On the other hand ECA and IFALPA oversee and influence gradual changes to the current ATM system that are necessary to secure safe and efficient air transport until the more radical changes have been developed and implemented. The North American airspace system is undergoing a dramatic change as they try to update and improve the existing ATM system and move closer to ICAO standards. ALPA International is providing technical consulting directly to the FAA and NAVCANADA and indirectly through the RTCA working groups and other venues on the NEXTGEN proposals. The challenge is working with the proposed procedures and technology as to not to lose the human and specifically the pilot perspective and address our issues.
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Dangerous Goods: Mzi Manyamalala
The IFALPA Dangerous Goods Committee promotes the safe transportation of dangerous goods by air throughout the world. Articles and substances capable of posing a risk to heath, safety, property or the environment are regulated as dangerous goods, and may be carried safely only when properly declared, packaged, labelled, and when the Pilot in Command is notified. IFALPA seeks to maintain the highest regulatory standards for the transport of declared dangerous goods, as well as preventing undeclared dangerous goods from being carried on aircraft. The Dangerous Goods Committee is composed of pilot volunteers from member associations throughout the world. These committee members represent IFALPA at the United Nations (UN) Sub Committee of Experts on the Transport of Dangerous Goods, at the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) Dangerous Goods Panel, the International Air Transport Association (IATA) Dangerous Goods Board, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the World Health Organization (WHO) and various other governmental and industry events worldwide. The Committee Chairman is one of 17 voting members of the ICAO Dangerous Goods Panel.
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Human Performance: Carl Bollweg
Terms of Reference
- To prepare and discuss working papers which review, modify and amend IFALPA policy concerning all aspects of;
- Aero-Medicine,
- Pilot Selection, Training, Licensing.
- Human Factors in Aircraft Design, Procedures and Operations,
- Human Factors in Incident / Accident Analysis,
- Develop IFALPA policy by taking notice of findings of international research and recognised developments in human factor science and by interacting with other relevant IFALPA Standing Committees.
- To provide expert advice on Human Performance issues upon request to the Executive Board, other Standing Committees, Advisory Groups, and interested External Parties
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Security: Carl Hager
Core Activity To improve the protection and safety of all persons involved in civil aviation and the general public against acts of unlawful interference perpetrated on the ground or in flight.
Terms of Reference
- To prepare and discuss working papers which review, modify and amend IFALPA policy concerning all aspects of aviation security consistent with international baseline security measures.
- To assist member associations to achieve and maintain in a harmonized way a level of aviation security in their region.
- To provide expert advice on all security issues upon request to Executive Board, other Standing Committees, Advisory Groups and interested external parties.
- To contribute to the development of relevant ICAO Standards, Recommended Practices and associated guidance materials.
- To review new developments and technical solutions in the field of aviation security.
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Reports
2009 Report
Technical Annual General Report 2009 - 2010
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Alpha Apron Rehabilitation report
Alpha Apron Rehabilitation ORTIA
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CAHRS
Confidential Aviation Hazard Reporting System
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