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Old 17th Jan 2009, 17:43
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OverRun points us toward toward CAP 781, which indeed appears to include some useful information (although much of it should not be new to experienced project managers). As Pinkman points out, it's just a document - but let's assume for a moment that people take the advice that it contains..

Super - next time an airport needs to rehabilitate a runway they can get the book off the shelf and benefit from the advice. And before long they will probably have no idea how hard won the compilation of that advice was. Sadly the one passing reference in the document to the airport's SMS is unlikely to do much to feed the advice, in generic terms, into that SMS. So if the airport is going to do some other form of work on the runway (or anywhere else come to that), any relevant guidance in CAP 781 will probably be overlooked. I guess we'll get a CAP about working on runway lighting 18 months after there are a string of incidents related to some AGL project.....

Strange really that the UK CAA, or at least some of its staff, have claimed to be world leaders in SMS application and so rarely promotes effective implementation.