Session Stems From Last Year's NTSB Public Forum On The
Issue
HAI President Matt Zuccaro (pictured) will host and
moderate a Public Aircraft Industry Workshop on Monday, February
13th at Heli-Expo in Dallas. This meeting is designed to serve as a
launching pad for an industry working group to develop
recommendations for government regulators on ways to strengthen and
clarify safety oversight of public aircraft operations.
This industry workshop is an outgrowth of a November 2011 NTSB
public forum which highlighted the shortcomings of safety oversight
and surveillance responsibility for public use aircraft operations.
NTSB Chairman Deborah A.P. Hersman minced no words in her opening
statement, calling public aircraft operations the “orphans of
aviation safety,” pointing out that, “in the air
carrier world, and in general aviation, it is very clear that the
FAA has regulatory authority over all aspects of aircraft operation
and airworthiness, but those clear lines do not exist when it comes
to public aircraft operations.”
In his testimony at the NTSB forum, Zuccaro agreed that the line
between public use and civil aviation operations has become so
blurred, particularly for contract operations, that “it is
time to bring all the stakeholders together in a working group to
provide clarity on the issue.” Zuccaro does not expect the
Public Aircraft Industry Workshop at Heli-Expo to provide all the
answers. “But,” he says, “we do think that it
will get the process started.”
This workshop has two basic goals: to clarify the specific issues
the working group will need to address, and to identify the
stakeholders who should be members of the Working Group. The Public
Aircraft Industry Workshop will be held in Meeting Room C (C3-C4)
at the Dallas Convention Center, from 3:30 pm on Monday, Feb. 13,
2012. All interested parties are welcome to attend.
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