FAA News & Update: FAA Hosts Fifth GA Summit
Scott Sherer
COO Forum Moderator
Subject: FAA Hosts Fifth General Aviation Summit
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FAA Hosts Fifth General Aviation Summit
October 24– We’re pleased with where general aviation safety is headed. The numbers aren’t final, but it looks like 2017 will end up being our safest year yet. Working together with industry to meaningfully address safety is making a difference and we’re going to continue our collaboration to make GA even safer.
It’s an issue that needs to be approached from many angles – some regulatory, some technological, some educational. And that’s the driving force behind the fifth annual General Aviation Safety Summit we held with our government and industry partners today.
We’ve made substantial progress since last year’s gathering. The General Aviation Joint Steering Committee (GAJSC) continues to implement targeted safety enhancements. We finalized the Part 23 rule that will help decrease the time to get safety-enhancing technologies for small airplanes to the marketplace. The Fly Safe educational campaign has reached millions of our social media followers with information on how to avoid loss of control accidents. And in collaboration with aviation training community experts, last summer we updated key elements of the airman certification system to include an enhanced focus on risk management.
There’s no silver bullet when it comes to making GA safer. We have to remain vigilant and keep finding new ways to advance our shared safety mission. The GA community has been willing to roll up their sleeves and ask, “How can we fix this – together?†With that kind of attitude, I know we can tackle anything that comes our way – and get ever closer to the day when general aviation fatalities are a thing of the past.
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FAA Hosts Fifth General Aviation Summit
October 24– We’re pleased with where general aviation safety is headed. The numbers aren’t final, but it looks like 2017 will end up being our safest year yet. Working together with industry to meaningfully address safety is making a difference and we’re going to continue our collaboration to make GA even safer.
It’s an issue that needs to be approached from many angles – some regulatory, some technological, some educational. And that’s the driving force behind the fifth annual General Aviation Safety Summit we held with our government and industry partners today.
We’ve made substantial progress since last year’s gathering. The General Aviation Joint Steering Committee (GAJSC) continues to implement targeted safety enhancements. We finalized the Part 23 rule that will help decrease the time to get safety-enhancing technologies for small airplanes to the marketplace. The Fly Safe educational campaign has reached millions of our social media followers with information on how to avoid loss of control accidents. And in collaboration with aviation training community experts, last summer we updated key elements of the airman certification system to include an enhanced focus on risk management.
There’s no silver bullet when it comes to making GA safer. We have to remain vigilant and keep finding new ways to advance our shared safety mission. The GA community has been willing to roll up their sleeves and ask, “How can we fix this – together?†With that kind of attitude, I know we can tackle anything that comes our way – and get ever closer to the day when general aviation fatalities are a thing of the past.
Scott Sherer
Wright Brothers Master Pilot, FAA Commercial Pilot
Aviation Director, Cessna Owners Organization Forum Moderator and Cessna Owners Author.
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