Long-Standing IFR Charts Improved To Increase Situational Awareness
Jeppesen has been working closely with the pilot community and leading experts to enhance its SID (standard instrument departure) and STAR (standard terminal arrival route) charts to increase situational awareness and reduce 'head-down' time while referencing chart information.
Runway Condition Code Replaces Friction Values Provided To Pilots Under The Takeoff And Landing Performance Assessment Initiative
On October 1, 2016 airports in the United States began using new reporting terminology to describe contaminated paved runways in both Field Condition Notices to Airmen (FICON NOTAMs) and on Automatic Terminal Information Service (ATIS) messages per the Takeoff and Landing Performance Assessment (TALPA) initiative.
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