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The CAR/NAM Regional Meeting was held
CAR/NAM Regional Meeting
in Hollywood, Florida, 9-10 November 2018.
This was the first meeting, outside of Confer-
ence, where the 2 Regions had met together,
and it was a great success. ALPA-I provided
training modules on Strategic Planning and
Safety Management Systems applying the
principles to Fatigue Risk Management. Both
were well received.

All Member Associations present gave up-
dates. During the ALPA-I update there was a
presentation concerning Cargo versus Pas-
senger Operations.

During the time of the meeting there was an
accident involving Fly Jamaica in Guyana. In
covering the different subject headings of
CAR/NAM Regional Meeting
the MATRIX and subsequent to the accident
in Guyana, it became apparent that several
Member Associations either do not have an
Emergency Response Plan. Those who did
were not always current, because it had not
been necessary to use the plans. For this Re-
gion, emphasis was placed on ensuring that
every association had an Emergency Response
Plan and Critical Incident Response Plan and
that these plans needed to be provided and
practiced now. In addition, having access to a
peer support plan was also emphasised.

The ATS Committee Meeting was gener-
ously hosted by VNV in excellent facilities in
Amsterdam, 30 October-1 November 2018. It
was a well-attended meeting with pilots from
most areas of the world present. There were ATS Committee Meeting
several new members and an observer from
IFATCA and it is hoped they will continue to
participate. There were over 30 papers, but
the revision to the external meeting report
template was certainly helpful.

Position Papers and Briefing Leaflets include
Reduced Runway Separation Minima (RRSM)
for night operations, which the Committee is
not in favour of, and the Chairman and the 2
Vice-Chairman will work on a Position Paper
which will be needed for the ICAO Air Traffic
Management Operations Panel (ATMOPSP)
meeting where ICAO will possibly develop
provisions for this to be introduced. The Brief-
ing Leaflet on Airspace Classification is pro- a new Working Group in which IFALPA should be involved.
gressing and will be completed for a Commit-
tee review next year.
Another presentation concerned the implementation of Remote Tow-
ers specifically in Europe and several issues were identified. Members
Two interesting presentations on Commercial of the Committee will be developing a briefing leaflet based on the
Space came from EUROCONTROL and ALPA-I. ECA leaflet.
Notably, ICAO has a high-level Space Learn- The Committee had a good discussion relating to data and share the
ing Group which is looking at sub-orbital and concerns of many of the Committees on the topic. It was agreed that
other commercial space flight operations and IFALPA policy and/or position was required for downlink data related
once their vision concept has been produced to Air Traffic Management issues and verification. There will be an
there may be work in either existing Panels or
initial paper for the next meeting.