Ref: ICAO Doc 9870, Manual on the Prevention of Runway Incursions
Concern
The current generation of aircraft has highly automated and complex systems that allow the preparation and programming of the total flight to be done on the ground.
This has resulted in flight deck workload peaks shifting to the ground phase of aircraft operations. Many of the checklists and flight programming are done prior to taxi so that both crew members can be looking outside during ground operations. The taxi phase should be treated as a “critical phase of flight”.
This table shows runway incursions in Canada during winter operations for the past 5 years.
Runway incursions in Winter Season
(November-March)
| Year | 06-07 | 07-08 | 08-09 |
09-10 | 10-11 |
| Count | 115 | 139 | 144 | 116 | 124 |
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Recommendation
Help reduce the risk of runway incursions.
1) Before you taxi or manoeuvre on the airfield, identify Hot Spots by locating them on the aerodrome diagram (Canadian Aerodrome Charts, Jeppesen charts, etc). More information about each Hot Spot is provided on the Taxi
Chart;
2) Extra vigilance is required whenever approaching an identified "Hot Spot" or crossing a runway.
