BAC SP START Meeting Summary 20180816 20190227 0003

The Port has the perfect opportunity to help the neighboring communities by encouraging all carriers to limit the use of reverse thrust between the hours of 10:00 PM and 7:00 AM. as noted in the airport master record. This guidance appears to contradict previous statements the Port has made that asking carriers to limit reverse thrust would create greater risk and raise the Port's liability should something go wrong. If I am wrong, explain why. If not, it is time to turn guidance into action NOW. STANDARD OPERATING CONDITIONS: Based on your runway research, runway 34L is built to FAA standards with appropriate Runway Safety Areas (RSA). Aircraft landing performance is certified to FAA standards that exclude the use of reverse thrust upon landing. The flights are released (dispatched) to FAA standards without reverse thrust performance reductions. The FAA approved flight manuals calculate landing distances without the use of reverse thrust, and in my experience of 30+ years in the cockpit, the flight manuals only require pilots to deploy the reversers (reverse idle) upon landing. In addition, the Part 135 Operations Specifications also describe the unreliability of thrust reverse. This is all FAA standard and is how the aircraft are designed to operate. Therefore, asking the carriers to fly the airplanes as certified and released by limiting the use of reverse thrust upon landing to Idle Reverse (except for emergencies) is only reasonable. If you feel this is unsafe or increases your liability, then we should go one-step further in…

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Call to order – Roll Call – Quorum Established – Land Acknowledgement We would like to acknowledge that our Agency operates in four present-day counties, which are the traditional lands of the Coast Salish people, past and present. This acknowledgement does not take the place of authentic relationships with indigenous communities in our jurisdiction and [...]