Better insight for pilots on approach
“Now that ABAR reports are available and embraced by the FAA and other regulators, what is the industry waiting for?”
“When we’re on approach, we lack the ability to know when risk becomes high on degraded runways due to the lack of objective data about what the landing aircraft before us actually experienced. Sure, we get a PBAR (pilot’s intuitive observations of braking action), but when the risk becomes elevated to the point where accidents are much more likely to occur, these subjective observations are a poor substitute for knowledge. If runway conditions have the possibility to produce an excursion or worse, we need to know. And the source of the warning must be dependable and have false positives and false negatives engineered out. That’s what ABAR science does.”
Veteran commercial pilot
