Stabilised Approach Awareness Toolkit for ATC
Stabilised Approach Awareness Toolkit for ATC
The toolkit is aimed at providing awareness to Air Traffic Controllers on the subject of Stabilised Approach. This aid was developed jointly by the Civil Air Navigation Services Organisation (CANSO), the Flight Safety Foundation, EUROCONTROL and Cotswold Airport.
Introduction
Annually approximately 30% of accidents in our industry are runway excursions. Many of these excursions are the result of unstable approaches. How can controllers play their part in achieving a stabilised approach?
Top 10 Stabilised Approach Considerations for Air Traffic Controllers
How much do you know about stabilised approaches? Is it enough? Take a look at this list of considerations for controllers and find out.
Approach briefing examples
See the problems
View dramatised events illustrating real-life problems. Why did they happen? How could they be avoided?
These video clips are short demonstrations of some events leading to unstabilised approaches. Watch them with, or without the transcripts. You can also download the self-study notes to get even more benefit from them.
Resources
Statistics
- Contribution of Unstabilised Approaches to Aircraft Accidents and Incidents
- Definition of a stabilised approach
In the Cockpit
ATC Considerations
- Delayed Descent Instructions
- Inappropriate ATC Speed Instructions
- Lack of or Wrong Information About Distance to Touchdown
- Landing Distance and Final Speed Calculations
- Late Runway or Approach Type Change
- Vectoring into Short Final Distances
- Vectoring Resulting in Intercepting the Glidepath from Above
- Vectoring to Runways with Significant Tailwind Component
Training material
