# Presentation: 021593

## AVIATION WEATHER:

**USER FORUM**
**AVIATION WEATHER:**
***OPPORTUNITIES FOR IMPLEMENTATION***
**July 25 - 26, 2000**
**Bethesda Ramada Hotel and Conference Center**
**Bethesda, Maryland**

**Product Development ******** Product Dissemination ******** Cockpit Displays**
**Training ******** Decision Support Systems/Capabilities**

## Aviation Weather: Opportunities for ImplementationIntroduction

**Samuel P. Williamson**
**Federal Coordinator**
**Office of the Federal Coordinator for Meteorological Services and Supporting Research**
**July 25, 2000**

## Welcome!

**Aviation Weather: *****Opportunities for Implementation***

**Bethesda Ramada Hotel and Conference Center**

- Co-sponsored by
- The Office of the Federal Coordinator for Meteorological Services and Supporting Research (OFCM)
-  and the
- Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)

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**This forum is being audio recorded to aid in the development of the summaries to appear in the proceedings.  **

## Overview

**Why are we here today?**
**Background - the flight path to today**
**Opening Remarks**
**Mr. Peter Challan****, Deputy Associate Administrator for Air Traffic Services, Federal Aviation Administration**
**Mr. Scott Gudes****, Deputy Under Secretary for Oceans and Atmosphere, Department of Commerce**

## Why are we here?

**The safe and efficient operation of the National Airspace System is a national priority.**
- 				National Aviation Weather Initiatives, 1999

**...80% reduction in the rate of fatal aviation accidents by the year 2007.**
**	****   **White House Commission on Aviation Safety and Security, 1997

**In 1997, for-hire air carriers had total operating revenues of $109.54 billion...**
- 			        *Transportation*, 5th Ed., Coyle, Bardi & Novak

**1998:  191,562 active GA aircraft, 26.9 million flying hours****	****	****	****	****	****	****	****	**AOPA

## Why are we here?

*WASHINGTON (AP)* A new system designed to improve the flow of air traffic during severe weather helped reduce delays by seven percent last month, the head of the Federal Aviation Administration said Friday. But the weather has made this week a...
- June 16, 2000

**Flying into a Storm of Delays**
- by Don Phillips and Neil Irwin
*Washington Post*, July 17, 2000
- Last Monday began with a bang.  An awesome line of thunderstorms formed....
- The airport, the second-busiest in the country, started the day already shut down.

## A leading cause of  fatal accidents...

- From the *Nall Report*,
- Air Safety Foundation

***Weather***** has been and continues to be a *****leading cause***** of fatal aviation accidents, especially for general aviation**
**Complex problem spanning many disciplines--integrated approach required**

**General Aviation Fatal Accident Causes, Pilot Related, Weather: **
**1995 - 29.1%**
**1996 - 33.2%**
**1997 - 19.5%**
**1998 - 21.9%**

## Why are we here?

**The aviation weather community has made significant progress in a wide array of areas**
**Computing power and improved models**
**Visualization techniques**
**Communications**
**Cockpit displays, including satellite-linked systems to fit in a small GA aircraft**
**Gaps still remain with respect to the initiatives - how will we attack these gaps?**

## Why are we here?

**We have many opportunities for aviation weather service improvements**
**Product development and dissemination**
**Cockpit displays**
**Decision support systems and capabilities**
**User education and training**
**We have opportunities to implement improvements now**
**We have opportunities to positively identify areas needing attention and priority**

## Who is OFCM?

**In your registration package...**

_***Mission:***_**  To ensure the effective use of federal meteorological resources by leading the systematic coordination of operational weather requirements and services, and supporting research, among the federal agencies.**

## Coordinating Infrastructure

***Coordinating Infrastructure***

**Federal Committee for Meteorological Services and Supporting Research (FCMSSR)**

**Interdepartmental Committee for Meteorological Services and Supporting Research (ICMSSR)**

_**Federal Coordinator for Meteorology**_

_**Standing Committees**_

_**Program Councils**_

**National Space Weather Program**

**National Aviation Weather Program**

**Environmental Services, Operations, and Research Needs**

**Operational Processing Centers**

**Environmental Information Systems and Communications**

**Integrated Observing Systems**

**Climate Monitoring and Services**

**Cooperative Research**

## Membership

**Program Council Members**
**Listed on inside ****front**** cover of program**
**Joint Action Group Members**
**Listed on inside ****back**** cover of program**

## National Aviation Weather Program

***National Aviation Weather Program***

**National Research Council Report, 1995**

**National Aviation Weather Strategic Plan, 1997**

**National Aviation Weather Initiatives, 1999**

## National Aviation Weather Program

**4-Tier Planning Process**

## Forum Objectives

**To highlight programs/processes which have been ****implemented**** recently or are ****ready now ****for implementation**
**To identify on-going programs which show ****promising results**** and must be**** supported**** with continuing resources to reach fruition**
**To ****illuminate gaps**** where no work is planned**
**To ****identify overlaps**** and assess them**

_**Four overarching objectives are:**_

## Who’s attending?

**FAA**

**NASA**

**Air Force**

**Navy**

**Army**

**NESDIS**

**USDA**

**National Research Council**

**Airlines**

**Pilots**

**General Aviation**

**Business Aviation**

**Controllers**

**Dispatchers**

**Air Traffic Specialists**

**Researchers**

**Engineers**

**Commercial Weather Service Providers**

**Safety Experts**

**Trainers**

**Educators**

**Meteorologists**

**Industry**