Aviation Safety in Canada: Flight Data Monitoring Transport Canada Civil Aviation November, 2014 1 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  Responsible for the Government of Canada’s transportation policies and programs.  oversees the safety, security, efficiency and environmental responsibility of Canada’s air, marine, road and rail transportation.  Strategic Objectives     An efficient transportation system A clean transportation system A safe transportation system A secure transportation system CIVIL AVIATION Mandate • 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 • Provides aviation safety oversight through the following activities: – – Services: • issuing documents to individuals (i.e., pilots, aircraft maintenance engineers, dispatchers); • issuing operating certificates to organizations (i.e., air operators, aircraft maintenance organizations, airports); and, • certifying aeronautical products (i.e., aircraft) Surveillance: • monitoring the aviation industry for compliance of the regulatory framework primarily through assessments, inspections, audits and enforcement 4 INTRODUCTION • In 2005, TCCA embraced a systems approach to aviation safety through the introduction of Safety Management Systems (SMS) regulations for key areas of aviation • 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. • These on-site inspections are built into Transport Canada’s surveillance schedule and can be planned or unplanned. • The department conducts inspections on aviation organizations to verify compliance with safety regulations. 5 THE SMS VISION • A fully integrated approach to SMS across all certificates • Better management of the aviation system through cross functional assessments of hazards and risks • Harmonized approach to surveillance across all enterprises – systems entry point • 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! 6 SMS COMPONENTS 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 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 • Integrate safety into the daily operations of a transportation enterprise • Strengthen an enterprise’s capacity to address safety issues proactively • Build on the principles of quality management already embraced in most transportation industries • Provide a systematic way for industry to maximize opportunities to identify hazards, control risks and continuously improve • Move towards more effective compliance and more proactive management of risks • Foster a safety culture throughout the transportation system • Permit Transport Canada to prioritize and target its resources to areas requiring the most attention/risk mitigation Flight Data Monitoring • Voluntary approach • Source of information to support the various requirements of an SMS 8 SMS AND FLIGHT DATA MONITORING  Hazard identification  Risk management  Occurrence reporting  Performance measurement FLIGHT DATA MONITORING  Quality/safety assurance 9 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?