SPEAKERS AT ICAO MEETING ON RUNWAY SAFETY URGE SWIFT ACTION TO IMPLEMENT NEW CONTAMINATION REPORTING SYSTEM
March 1st, 2019
AIRPORTS and ATC organisations have been told they should ready to implement the incoming International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) Global Reporting Format (GRF) assessing runway conditions, even if their governments have yet to write it into national regulations.
Nico Voorbach, director, ICAO and industry affairs, for global ATC association CANSO, said of the new system, whose implementation deadline is next November: “Stakeholders don’t have to wait for states.” He said there had been a long lead in time (the system was approved in 2016) and there ...
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