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AOPA General Aviation Perspective Rune Duke Director, Airspace & Air Traffic Services Aircraft Owners & Pilots Association AOPAs 26th Annual Nall Report Identify accident trend 2012 for targeted education 51 effort 2013 41

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General Aviation Perspective

AOPA

Rune Duke

Director, Airspace & Air Traffic Services Aircraft Owners & Pilots Association

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AOPA’s 26th Annual Nall Report

  • Identify accident trend

for targeted education effort

  • Analysis of 2014 weather

accident data – VFR into IMC results in most fatalities

  • Available late-summer

ALL WEATHER ACCIDENTS VFR INTO IMC FATAL VFR INTO IMC

2012

51

2013

41

2014

32

2012 2013 2014 2012 2014

23 23 22 22

2013

20 17

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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

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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
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Weather source(s) used for initial weatherbriefing during flight planning

60% 50% 40% 30% 20% 10% 0% 70% 90% 80%

Aviation application Aviation Weather FlightService (1800 (e.g. Center online WXBRIEF) Foreflight) Weather Channel CSRA or Weather Leidos onlineUnderground Other TIBS FAA weather I do not get cameras weather Alaska Aviation briefings WeatherUnit

CONUS Alaska

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For those using FIS-B, knowledge of transmission intervalfor SIGMETs and AIRMETs

60% 70%

I don't know Every 15 minutes Every 2 minutes Every 10minutes Real-time Every 5 minutes

CONUS Alaska

50% 40% 30% 20% 10% 0%

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On average, how old do you think the NEXRAD (radar) information provided over FIS-B is?

25% 20% 15% 10% 5% 0% 30% 35% 40%

Real-time Less than5 minutes 5-10 minutes 11-15 minutes 16-20 minutes More than20 minutes I don'tknow

CONUS Alaska

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How much weight do you typically assign a Flight Service specialist's caution that "VFR is not recommended"?

0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60%

1 - No weight atall 2 3 4 5 - A great deal of weight

CONUS Alaska

Why lower weight

  • Over used, liability reasons,

can make decision without their input, briefer uses different criteria than I do 68% believe it would be moderately to extremely useful for “VFR not recommended” to be provided with a web briefing

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How important would you find each of thefollowing improvements to aviation weather products andservices?

25% 20% 15% 10% 5% 0% Incorporationof non-aviation weather stations into aviation products Improved DUATS resources EnhancedFIS-B products Easier PIREP submission method ImprovedFlight Service (telephone or radio) Improved Aviation WeatherCenter products Moreintuitive graphical weather products More surface

  • bservations(

e.g. AWOS)

CONUS and Alaska Pilots

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Weather Improvement Requests

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

CONUS and Alaska Pilots

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Comparing Graphical and Textual Products

  • Pilots highly desire graphical products
  • Similar comfort level with interpreting graphical product

0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 1 - Novalue 2 3 4 5 - A greatdeal

  • fvalue

Graphical product Textual product

0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 1 - Extremely uncomfortable 2 3 4 5 -Extremely comfortable

Comfort Interpreting Product Value

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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

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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
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Thank you!

AOPA

Air Traffic Services 202-509-9515

Rune.duke@aopa.org