The IEEE runs a series of blogs associated with Spectrum. Prof. Peter Ladkin (PBL) is a guest blogger on the
Risk Factor blog written by Robert Charette.
TCAS has been in the news again recently. In August, David Kaminski-Morrow of Flight International reported on a recommendation by Eurocontrol to implement change proposals CP112E and CP115 ASAP. These changes were approved in Spring 2008 in DO-185B, the RTCA document which defines the TCAS standard.
Aimee Turner of Flight International reported recently that the European Commission, in answer to a question tabled by a Euro-MP, has expressed its intent to mandate the new standard through EASA quickly.
PBL has been asked by Bob Charette to comment on an article from the Wall Street Journal, by Andy Pasztor, about an increase in perceived traffic conflicts in the U.S. and Europe, saying that "safety experts" agree that traffic growth is a major factor.
The first two installments appeared yesterday:
Part I and
Part II.
The
first part discusses some issues, and gives links to the Flight International articles on
flightglobal.com. The
second part is a short history of the U.S. air safety measures prompted by midair collisions involving commercial transport aircraft, which ended with Congress mandating TCAS installation in the commercial fleet.
Bernd