Performance And Accountability Report - Fiscal Year 2013 - Federal Aviation Administration - U.s. Department Of Transportation Page 54

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Team (CAST). Sharing data through the Aviation Safety
The committee also proposed using industry consensus
Information Analysis and Sharing (ASIAS) system and other
standards to create a compliance framework that can be more
easily amended to keep up with evolving technology. This
voluntary programs will help educate the GA community
and strengthen its safety culture. The FAA plans to expand
step would encourage innovation while ensuring that the FAA
ASIAS to general aviation in the next few years. In that time,
retains safety oversight. Our agency will be reviewing the ARC
the FAA and industry will work together to find incentives to
recommendations as we continue our efforts to improve general
increase voluntary reporting of risks and near accidents.
aviation safety.
Support the overhaul of airmen testing and training
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We remain committed to our partnerships with industry to meet
standards. An industry and government working group is
this metric over time.
overhauling the standards by incorporating risk management
and decision-making into flight training and testing.
See page 20 for more information about GA.
Expedite Title 14, Aeronautics and Space, Code of Federal
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GA Fatal Accident Rate
Regulations, Part 23, Airworthiness Standards certification
Fatalities per 100,000 flight hours
process for small aircraft to reduce costs and install new
technology in airplanes. An industry and government
1.20
committee completed work on streamlining certification
for the installation of certain safety technologies on these
1.15
aircraft.
1.10
In late July, an Aviation Rulemaking Committee (ARC), made up
of international industry and government experts, recommended
a broad range of GA policy and regulatory changes. The
1.05
recommendations cover the areas of GA design, production,
maintenance, and safety.
1.00
FY 2009
FY 2010
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Actual
Among the ARC recommendations was a suggestion that
Target
compliance with Part 23 requirements be made performance-
Target
Achieved?
based, focusing on the complexity and performance of an aircraft
1 Preliminary estimate until final result becomes available in March 2014. We do not
instead of on its weight and type of propulsion, as is presently
expect any change in the result to be significant enough to change the year-end
status of achieving the target.
the case. Under many of the existing Part 23 requirements, small,
2 Preliminary estimate until final result becomes available in March 2015. We do not
expect any change in the result to be significant enough to change the year-end
relatively simple airplanes have to meet the same regulatory
status of achieving the target. This target was previously displayed rounded to two
requirements as more complex aircraft.
decimal places as 1.06. For clarity in demonstrating that the target was not achieved,
it is now displayed rounded to three decimal places.
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Fiscal Year 2013
Performance and Accountability Report

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