The Global Action Plan for the Prevention of Runway Incursions (GAPPRI) is a collaborative effort by a diverse group of industry professionals, including air navigation service providers (ANSPs), aerodrome operators, airlines, states, regulators, manufacturers and R&D organisations. Its goal is to enhance aviation safety through a set of consensus-based recommendations that go beyond regulatory compliance.
The complete version of the GAPPRI was recently released expanding on the first part – the list of recommendations – which was released at the end of 2023. The updated document now includes additional guidance and explanatory material.
On behalf of CANSO, Think helped produce the air navigation service provider (ANSP) section of the document.
What’s new?
The updated document provides additional guidance and explanatory material on each and every recommendation to help organisations understand, assess and apply them. The material has been produced by leading experts from across the full spectrum of the aviation industry with contributions from organisations around the world.
Our advice is to not just skim through the parts related purely to your role but to take some time to delve into the other areas. The document is very comprehensive and so contains a wealth of information that everyone will find useful. If we wish to minimise runway incursions, then this must be done in collaboration with all stakeholders and the best way to enable this collaboration is to have a clear understanding of everyone’s challenges not just your own.
Our contribution
Think has been involved in the development of the GAPPRI since the project began in March 2023. For this update, we focused on the ANSP recommendations relating to enhanced procedures and technology, as well as stop bars and advanced runway incursion warning systems (ARIWS).
There are several technology initiatives underway looking to improve runway safety. An example of one recent development, is the runway incursion prevention through situational awareness (RIPSA) system developed by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). The FAA previously developed runway status lights (RWSL) that act as an effective ‘direct to pilot’ safety solution. However, it is cost prohibitive for smaller aerodromes to implement and so they have developed the RPSA system to provide similar levels of safety more cheaply. Lots more information on this system and others are detailed within the GAPPRI document.
What’s next?
CANSO will be hosting a webinar, expected to be in November 2024, to dive deeper into the GAPPRI to help ANSPs understand the document and support implementation of the recommendations.
For the full GAPPRI document, visit the Skybrary website. If your organisation needs additional support to implement the GAPPRI recommendations, then please get in touch with the Think team, who would be happy to support any of your initiatives: info@think.aero
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