NTSB issues safety recommendations to FAA.

Press Release Summary:



According to NTSB, FAA should install and maintain weather cameras at critical areas of air tour routes within Misty Fjords National Monument and other scenic areas in Southeast Alaska that are frequently traveled by air tour operators. FAA should also develop permanent mechanism to provide en route and ground-based observations of air tour flights in Southeast Alaska at least once a month during tour season to ensure operators are adhering to safe flying practices.



Original Press Release:



Safety Recommendations A-08-59 Through -62



The National Transportation Safety Board recommends that the Federal Aviation Administration:

Install and maintain weather cameras at critical areas of air tour routes within the Misty Fjords National Monument and other scenic areas in Southeast Alaska that are frequently traveled by air tour operators. (A-08-59)

Develop a permanent mechanism to provide en route and ground-based observations of air tour flights in Southeast Alaska at least once a month during the tour season to ensure operators are adhering to safe flying practices. (A-08-60)

Develop, in cooperation with Southeast Alaska commercial air tour operators, aviation psychologists, and meteorologists, among others, a cue-based training program for commercial air tour pilots in Southeast Alaska that specifically addresses hazardous aspects of local weather phenomena and in-flight decision-making. (A-08-61)

Once a cue-based training program that specifically addresses hazardous aspects of local weather phenomena and weather-related, decision-making issues is developed as requested in Safety Recommendation A-08-61, require all commercial air tour operators in Southeast Alaska to provide initial and recurrent training in these subjects to their pilots. (A-08-62)

http://ntsb.gov/recs/letters/2008/A08_59_62.pdf

The complete recommendation letter is available on the Web at the URL indicated above.

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