"With its Flight Path 2050 Vision, the European Commission aims to achieve the highest level of safety in air transportation ever – both for passengers and for freight. The Future Sky Safety (FSS) programme contributes by bringing together 35 European partners to develop new tools and new approaches to aeronautics safety.
As a result of coordination by EREA, a range of new, cooperative safety projects materialised in FSS. For example, a project on runway excursions developed algorithms and monitoring techniques for reducing the risk of runway veer-offs. Following three successful flight tests, these tools can be used by both airlines and flight data monitoring software developers. Likewise, thanks to a pan-European safety culture survey of 7239 European pilots and their perceptions on the safety culture in European aviation, FSS-developed guidance on advancing the safety management of organisations was adopted by the European Aviation Safety Agency. Another important result is the development of the Human Performance Envelope (HPE), a new concept for cockpit operations and design. Through flight simulations, researchers have shown how the HPE approach can contribute to safeguarding human performance in flight upset conditions. In another project, researchers tested the fire resistance of advanced composite materials in an aircraft. This work has demonstrated the potential of geo-polymers for improving the fire behavior of cabin materials.""
FSS is improving cabin safety, reducing the risk of accidents, achieving near-total control over safety risks and enhancing safety performance under unexpected circumstances. FSS expect impact in terms of future changes to regulations, standards and guidance material for aviation safety, in particular for the braking performance of aircraft on contaminated runways, safety management of service providers, and the use of advanced composites in aircraft. Research is mainly positioned at Technological Readiness Levels (TRL) ranging from TRL3 (experimental proof of concept) to TRL5 (technology validated in industrially relevant environment).
Future Sky Safety was invited and recognized by members of the Employment and Transport committees of the European Parliament to learn about the study and its findings. The project contributes to Open Science policy through realisation of more than 30 Open Access publications, which will be made available through OpenAire. Future Sky Safety cooperates with non-EU countries through direct involvement of its research partners TsAGI (Russia), CSEM (Switzerland), Embraer (Portugal, Brasil) and receives advice from various stakeholders, including ICAO, EASA, CAA, FAA (United States), National Aviation Authorities, Aircraft Manufacturers.
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