At the request of several international aviation organizations, the Flight Safety Foundation has initiated the Runway Safety Initiative (RSI) to address the challenge of runway safety. This is an international effort with participants representing Airbus, Airports Council International (ACI), Association of Asia Pacific Airlines (AAPA), Association of European Airlines (AEA), Boeing Commercial Airplanes, Civil Air Navigation Services Organisation (CANSO), Direction Générale de l’Aviation Civile (DGAC) of France, Embraer, Eurocontrol, European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA), European Regions Airline Association (ERA), International Air Transport Association (IATA), International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), International Federation of Air Line Pilots’ Associations (IFALPA), National Aerospace Laboratory NLR–The Netherlands, U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and U.S. National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB).

The effort is focusing on the three areas of runway safety: runway incursions, runway excursions and runway confusion. An initial catalog of runway safety products has been developed and specific data on the various runway safety areas has been obtained. The effort is designed to determine the extent and success of current runway safety efforts, explore any gaps that now exist in these efforts, and propose interventions and implementation strategies to reduce or eliminate those gaps.

The effort brings together multiple disciplines to include aircraft manufacturers, operators, management, pilots, regulators, airports and air traffic management, and utilizes the expertise and experience of all the stakeholders to address this important challenge.

Recent RSI Presentations

Runway Safety Initiative Briefing [PPT 9.5M]

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