Flight Safety and Weather Flight Safety and Weather

Flight Safety and Weather

Flight Safety and Weather • The responsibility for flight safety is YOU, the pilot • Clear sky and light wind does not mean it will be that way – One hour from now – 50 miles from here – 1, 000 ft AGL

Weather Related Accidents • The following data are from the FAA’s National Aviation Safety Data Analysis Center (NASDAC), Office of Aviation Safety, Flight Standards Service and are based on NTSB accident data. • Data from all accidents, the majority non-fatal • http: //www. asias. faa. gov/aviation_studi es/weather_study/studyindex. html

19, 562 total accidents 4, 159 (21. 3%) weather related Main cause = wind

Nearly 87% or 7 out of 8 of these involved general aviation operations General Aviation GA Commuter Ag Air carrier

Georgia weather-related fatalities (NWS) • http: //www. srh. noaa. gov/topics/attach/html/ ssd 02 -18. htm • Looked at NTSB data from 2, 312 GA fatal accidents in the US during 1995 -2000 • Weather a factor in 697 or 30% of all GA fatalities • A similar study by AOPA showed an average of 35% but declining • Weather a bigger factor in FATAL accidents than for non-fatal

• NTSB cited NWS weather support to be a contributing factor in only two (0. 3%) of the 697 weather-related fatal accidents. • NTSB cited FSS support to be a factor in only five (0. 7%) of the accidents. • NTSB cited inadequate ATC support only nine times (1. 3%) • Combined, NWS, FSS and ATC = 2. 3% • Pilot error accounted for remaining 97. 7%

Fatal Georgia accidents