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The following examples of FSF accomplishments show how the Foundation has worked — and continues to work — in its unique role:

• Produced landmark studies that formed the basis for medical standards for pilots and air traffic controllers;

• Pressed effectively for the use of weather radar in civil aircraft;

• Spurred the acceptance of flight data recorders, anticollision lights, aircraft rescue and fire fighting training, and standardization of pilot training;

• Initiated the first international, safety-oriented and anonymous pilot-reporting system for civil aviation, which became the model for similar programs throughout the world;

• Conducted the first civil aircraft accident investigation training course;

• Completed the first computer modeling of the human body’s reactions to crash forces to improve passenger seat-restraint systems;

• Pioneered the collection and distribution of mechanical malfunction reports, a task now performed by the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA);

• Conducted the first full-scale test of an aircraft-passenger air bag for the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA);

• Created a crashworthy fuel system for helicopters;

• Declared the U.S. air traffic control system safe, after an exhaustive study following the national controllers’ union strike in 1981;

• Completed the first international agreement to exchange aviation safety information with a nongovernment U.S.S.R. (now the Commonwealth of Independent States) foundation.

• Led the first comprehensive international task force to reduce controlled-flight-into-terrain (CFIT) accidents;

• Created worldwide awareness of the hazards caused by bogus parts;

• Fostered U.S. implementation of flight operational quality assurance by the use of onboard digital flight data recorder information;

• Studied the benefits of head-up guidance systems to reduce landing accidents;

• Shared lessons learned from more than two decades of experience conducting safety audits of airlines and corporate flight departments;

• Published groundbreaking findings and recommendations of the FSF Approach-and-landing Accident Reduction (ALAR) Task Force and the FSF ALAR Tool Kit, a compact disc comprising a unique compilation of knowledge and safety products that help flight operations managers, chief pilots, flight crews, dispatchers and schedulers to further improve the safety of flight operations;

• Publishes one of the world’s best aviation safety resources: a four-color magazine AeroSafety World providing timely, clear and objective information that is highly valued for accuracy by international aviation professionals, the aviation press and mainstream news media; and,

• Conducts annually three safety seminars — the International Air Safety Seminar, the European Aviation Safety Seminar and the Corporate Aviation Safety Seminar — that encourage an open exchange of ideas among aviation decision makers in government, industry and academia; provide clear direction for the further reduction of risks in aviation; and generate published proceedings of each seminar’s most valuable information.

This Web site — more than 14,000 pages — was developed and is maintained by the Publications Department of the Foundation: J.A. Donoghue, director of publications; Mark Lacagnina, senior editor; Wayne Rosenkrans, senior editor; Linda Werfelman, senior editor; Rick Darby, associate editor; Karen K. Ehrlich, web and print production coordinator; Ann Mullikin, production designer; Susan Reed, production specialist; and Patricia Setze, librarian, Jerry Lederer Aviation Safety Library. The FSF staff page shows all departments and personnel.

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