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AOPA General Aviation Perspective Rune Duke Director, Airspace & Air Traffic Services Aircraft Owners & Pilots Association

AOPA’s 26th Annual Nall Report • Identify accident trend 2012 for targeted education 51 effort 2013 41 2014 • Analysis of 2014 weather 32 accident data – VFR into 2012 2013 2014 2012 2014 IMC results in most 23 23 2013 22 22 20 fatalities 17 • Available late-summer ALL WEATHER ACCIDENTS VFR INTO IMC FATAL VFR INTO IMC

NTSB PIREP Special Investigation Report • Recommendations published March 2017 • AOPA, FAA, CAA, NATCA, Leidos • AOPA PIREP course to be updated in 2018 • Improvements to pilot guidance • Outreach • RTCA Tactical Operations Committee proposed to host a working group

2017 AOPA Weather SurveyOverview Desire to better understand GA pilot needs • Survey emailed to medically current AOPA Alaskan members and a sample of 20,000 members in CONUS • 28 questions • 379 total respondents; 103 for Alaska and 276 for CONUS 48% instrument rated and current • • 39% have CPL or ATP • Most pilots have held their pilot certificate at least 20 years • 72% flew single-engine piston airplane in last year

Weather source(s) used for initial weatherbriefing during flight planning 90% 80% CONUS 70% Alaska 60% 50% 40% 30% 20% 10% 0% Aviation Aviation FlightService Weather CSRA or Weather Other TIBS FAA weather I do not get Alaska application Weather (1800 Channel Leidos onlineUnderground cameras weather Aviation (e.g. Center online WXBRIEF) briefings WeatherUnit Foreflight)

For those using FIS-B, knowledge of transmission intervalfor SIGMETs and AIRMETs 70% CONUS 60% Alaska 50% 40% 30% 20% 10% 0% Every 5 minutes I don't know Every 15 minutes Every 2 minutes Every 10minutes Real-time

On average, how old do you think the NEXRAD (radar) information provided over FIS-B is? 40% CONUS 35% Alaska 30% 25% 20% 15% 10% 5% 0% Real-time Less than5 5-10 minutes 11-15 minutes 16-20 minutes More than20 I don'tknow minutes minutes

How much weight do you typically assign a Flight Service specialist's caution that "VFR is not recommended"? 60% CONUS Why lower weight 50% Over used, liability reasons, • Alaska can make decision without 40% their input, briefer uses different criteria than I do 30% 68% believe it would be 20% moderately to extremely useful 10% for “VFR not recommended” to be provided with a web briefing 0% 1 - No weight 5 - A great 2 3 4 atall deal of weight

How important would you find each of thefollowing improvements to aviation weather products andservices? 25% 20% 15% 10% 5% 0% Incorporationof Improved EnhancedFIS-B Easier PIREP ImprovedFlight Improved Moreintuitive More surface non-aviation DUATS products submission Service Aviation graphical observations( weather resources method (telephone or WeatherCenter weather e.g. AWOS) stations into radio) products products aviation CONUS and Alaska Pilots products

Weather Improvement Requests 20 18 16 14 12 10 8 6 4 2 0 Increased Increased More Easierto Easierto More PIREPs Mobile Betterpilot FSS briefer granularity, infrastructure graphical/FIS-B access (e.g. understand friendly guidance improvements frequencyof products website,FIS-B) (plain (e.g. local updates language) knowledge, consistency) CONUS and Alaska Pilots

Comparing Graphical and Textual Products • Pilots highly desire graphical products • Similar comfort level with interpreting graphical product 80% Product Value Comfort Interpreting 60% 70% 60% 50% 50% Graphical product 40% 40% Textual product 30% 30% 20% 20% 10% 10% 0% 0% 1 - Extremely 5 -Extremely 2 3 4 1 - Novalue 2 3 4 5 - A greatdeal uncomfortable comfortable ofvalue

AOPA Pilot Education andSupport • AOPA Air Safety Institute AOPA Flight Planner updates • • New courses and videos – All videos are on YouTube and are free – Made possible with grant by NOAA and NWC – PIREP course update in 2018 • NEXRAD latency and FIS-B latency articles • Assist WTIC with outreach and increasing pilot participation

AOPA WeatherAdvocacy • Future Flight Service Program – Ensuring availability of briefers – Future of “VFR not recommended” • Increasing awareness of FIS-B benefits • Increasing PIREP submittals • Improving access to surface weather observations • Pilot surveys

AOPA Air Traffic Services Rune.duke@aopa.org 202-509-9515 Thank you!