FAAST Blast — Week of May 17 – May 23, 2021
Biweekly FAA Safety Briefing News Update
Safe Charter Workshop – June 10
Don’t miss the Safe Air Charter Workshop Live for certificated flight instructors and ground instructors. The event and Q&A will be held on June 10, 2021 at 8PM ET and will be live streamed on FAA’s Facebook, Twitter and YouTube channels. This workshop is eligible for FAASTeam Advanced WINGS Credit. Registration is not required.
Illegal air charter operations pose a serious safety hazard to the traveling public. The FAA works aggressively to identify and shut down rogue operators and to help passengers ensure the company they hire is legitimate. For more information, go to www.faa.gov/go/safeaircharter.
FlySafe – Understanding Owner and Mechanic Roles and Responsibilities
This month’s Fly Safe campaign topic looks at the importance of understanding pilot/owner and mechanic roles and responsibilities when servicing an aircraft.
Although pilots and aircraft owners rely on mechanics to maintain and inspect their aircraft, the owner or operator is ultimately responsible for airworthiness. Pilots and owners should be proactive in their approach to maintenance, understand airworthiness responsibilities, and know the value of proper maintenance documentation and effective communication with their mechanics and repair shops. Read more on our blog and catch the latest “57 Seconds to Safety” video here.
Understanding UTM
UTM, or Unmanned Aircraft System Traffic Management, is a crucial ingredient to safely integrating drone operations of the future into the National Airspace System. UTM is a "traffic management" ecosystem for uncontrolled operations that is separate from, but complementary to, the FAA's Air Traffic Management (ATM) system. UTM development will ultimately identify services, roles and responsibilities, information architecture, data exchange protocols, software functions, infrastructure, and performance requirements for enabling the management of low-altitude uncontrolled drone operations. For a closer look at some current UTM capabilities as well as some future concepts, check out the FAA Safety Briefing article “Sharing the Skies Safely” here: https://medium.com/faa/sharing-the-skies-safely-2131d9294bc5. You can read the entire May/June issue at www.faa.gov/news/safety_briefing.
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