Aviation Safety in Canada: Flight Data Monitoring Transport Canada Civil Aviation

Aviation Safety in Canada:
Flight Data Monitoring
Transport Canada Civil Aviation
November, 2014
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RDIMS 7934033
PURPOSE
To provide an overview best practices
related to Flight Data Monitoring in
Canada
Captain Gordon Andrews
Technical Team Lead, Westjet and Westjet Encore
National Flight Operations - TAROA
Transport Canada / Government of Canada
gordon.andrews@tc.gc.ca
TRANSPORT CANADA
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Responsible for the Government of Canada’s
transportation policies and programs.
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oversees the safety, security, efficiency and
environmental responsibility of Canada’s air,
marine, road and rail transportation.
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Strategic Objectives
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An efficient transportation system
A clean transportation system
A safe transportation system
A secure transportation system
CIVIL AVIATION
Mandate
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Aviation Safety program develops and administers programs, policies and regulations for
the safest civil aviation system for Canada and Canadians using a systems approach to
managing risks
Roles and Responsibilities
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Provides aviation safety oversight through the following activities:
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Services:
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issuing documents to individuals (i.e., pilots, aircraft maintenance engineers, dispatchers);
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issuing operating certificates to organizations (i.e., air operators, aircraft maintenance
organizations, airports); and,
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certifying aeronautical products (i.e., aircraft)
Surveillance:
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monitoring the aviation industry for compliance of the regulatory framework primarily
through assessments, inspections, audits and enforcement
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INTRODUCTION
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In 2005, TCCA embraced a systems approach to aviation safety through the
introduction of Safety Management Systems (SMS) regulations for key areas
of aviation
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Transport Canada’s surveillance program includes on-site inspections, such as
aerodrome inspections, special purpose inspections, facility surveillance, inflight inspections, ramp, cockpit, or cabin inspections, instructional techniques
monitoring inspections, and aircraft inspections.
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These on-site inspections are built into Transport Canada’s surveillance
schedule and can be planned or unplanned.
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The department conducts inspections on aviation organizations to verify
compliance with safety regulations.
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THE SMS VISION
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A fully integrated approach to SMS across all certificates
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Better management of the aviation system through cross functional
assessments of hazards and risks
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Harmonized approach to surveillance across all enterprises – systems entry
point
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A proactive approach to aviation safety that considers the whole life cycle of
flight from design to maintenance to operation through take off and landing!
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SMS COMPONENTS
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a safety policy;
a process for planning and measuring safety performance;
a process for identifying hazards and evaluating and managing risks;
a process for ensuring that personnel are trained and competent to perform their
duties;
a process for proactive internal reporting and analysis of hazards, incidents and
accidents, and for taking corrective measures to prevent their recurrence;
documentation of all the safety management system processes, and a process
for ensuring that personnel are aware of their responsibilities in regards to them;
a process for conducting reviews or audits of the safety management system
processes, on a periodic basis and for cause; and
any additional safety management system requirements that are prescribed
under the Part of the Canadian Aviation Regulations under which the operations
certificate is issued;
SMS AND FLIGHT DATA MONITORING
Safety Management Systems
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Integrate safety into the daily operations of a transportation enterprise
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Strengthen an enterprise’s capacity to address safety issues proactively
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Build on the principles of quality management already embraced in most transportation industries
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Provide a systematic way for industry to maximize opportunities to identify hazards, control risks and continuously
improve
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Move towards more effective compliance and more proactive management of risks
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Foster a safety culture throughout the transportation system
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Permit Transport Canada to prioritize and target its resources to areas requiring the most attention/risk mitigation
Flight Data Monitoring
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Voluntary approach
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Source of information to support the various requirements of an SMS
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SMS AND FLIGHT DATA MONITORING
 Hazard identification
 Risk management
 Occurrence reporting
 Performance measurement
FLIGHT
DATA
MONITORING
 Quality/safety assurance
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FLIGHT DATA MONITORING
FLIGHT DATA MONITORING
• Performance based
• Using flight data analysis to support performance based
initiatives
• Data driven
• Moving away from certain prescriptive requirements to
identify gaps and opportunities for improvement
PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT
• Use operationally relevant and meaningful
performance and quality indicators
• Isolate and extract the appropriate data for analysis
• Collect the large volumes of operational data to
support quantitative decision making in organizational
and operational processes.
CAPABLE OPERATOR CONCEPT
“ The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA),
rather than routinely modifying CFR 14
regulations, grants capable operators
deviations or exemptions from prescriptive
elements of alternate selection and fuel
planning regulations.” *
* (3-APP 1-2.2 FPFMM)
CAPABLE OPERATOR CONCEPT
FLIGHT DATA
MONITORING
SUPPORTS:
Core Criteria for the development and implementation of operational variations
PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT
FLIGHT DATA ANALYSIS: FUTURE
INITIATIVES
• Validation through data of the requirements for
Performance Based Navigation
• Enhanced use of Alternates
FLIGHT DATA ANALYSIS
• Do we regulate flight data analysis? If so, how?
• Can we produce prescriptive regulations for flight
data analysis?