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 A quarterly recap of the Federation’s activities at
 the International Civil Aviation Organization




 IFALPA   BY CAROLE COUCHMAN, MBE







        IFALPA Senior Technical & Regional Officer




 @ICAO  This report covers the period from May to the end of  There were further discussions and work on the

        July 2019. In addition to the meetings reported here,  Space-based ADS-B manual particularly related to
                                                              uncleared weather deviations and uncleared contin-
        there were several Panel Working Group meetings
                                                              gency diversions. Presentations concerning high alti-
        held around the globe.
                                                              tude balloon operations, commercial space launches,
        ACCIDENT INVESTIGATION PANEL (AIGP)
                                                              flight level 600 were also included.
        Since its promulgation some sixty years ago, Annex    and recovery operations, as well as operations above
        13 — Aircraft Accident and Incident Investigation
        has been primarily progressed through the work of     AERODROME OPERATIONS WORKING GROUP
        AIG Divisional Meetings. Recent developments have     (AOWG)
        required that accident and incident investigation     The third meeting of the Aerodrome Operations
        techniques and procedures progress more efficiently  Working Group was held in Montreal, 6-9 May 2019.
        and expeditiously. The establishment of the AIGP      This group is tasked with developing and updating
        has enabled timely and cost-effective advancement     PANS-Aerodromes. IFALPA was represented by Cap-
        of provisions for investigations called for in Annex   tain Sven Grassmueck, Vice-Chair of the Aerodrome
        13 to the Convention.                                 and Ground Environment (AGE) Committee. The
                                                              principal topic of the meeting was a review of up-
        The meeting in May progressed new amendments          date guidance material on wildlife hazard manage-
        for Annex 13 as well as discussions relating to the   ment as developed by the Wildlife Hazard Mitigation
        Accident/Incident Data Reporting (ADREP) and how      Expert Group.
        to standardise those reports, as well as the timely
        release of information after an accident. In addition,   AVIATION SECURITY PANEL (AVSECP)
        there were discussions relating to cyber security and   Captain Jeroen Kruse, Chairperson of the Security
        resilience. IFALPA was represented by the Chairper-   Committee represented IFALPA at the 30th meet-
        son of the Accident Analysis and Prevention (AAP)     ing of the AVSEC Panel. During the meeting the
        Committee, Captain Ariel Shocrón.                     Panel elected a new Chairperson, Sonia Hifdi. One
                                                              of the main issues discussed at this meeting was the
        SEPARATION AND AIRSPACE SAFETY PANEL WORK-            “insider threat” and new standards were proposed
        ING GROUP (SASP-WG)                                   for Annex 17 for screening of staff and background
        The two-week meeting was attended by a pilot rep      checks. A new taskforce will be set up to design a
        from the IFALPA Air Traffic Services (ATS) Commit-    reporting tool for safety and security occurrences.
        tee, Captain Felix Gottwald, and the Senior Technical   There were discussions on the residual risk of an
        Officer for ATS, Carole Couchman. There were many     attack on aviation by RPAS and the assessment was
        topics for discussion including extending Strategic   raised to medium.
        Lateral Offset Procedures (SLOP). At present, SLOP
        should be applied as a standard operating proce-      WAKE TURBULENCE WORKING GROUP (WTWG)
        dure in all airspace where approved and applied       The Wake Turbulence Working Group met in May
        from the time the aircraft reaches cruising level until   and IFALPA was represented by the ATS Vice-Chair,
        top of descent. The Panel is looking into allowing    Captain Stefan Fiedler. There was considerable dis-
        SLOP during climb and descent, acknowledging the      cussion on en-route wake vortex separation values.
        ambiguity of when to start and stop SLOP.             The WG have suggested the best way forward is to
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