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Meeting	ACGS Committee Meeting 133 - Asheville, NC - November 2024
Agenda Location	7 SUBCOMMITTEE C – AVIONICS AND SYSTEM INTEGRATION 7.2 Highlights of the FAA’s Aviation Safety Research and Development – Taking Research to a Reality
Title	Highlights of the FAA’s Aviation Safety Research and Development – Taking Research to a Reality
Presenter	Mike Paglione
Affiliation	FAA
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Abstract	The Manager of the Aviation Research Division at the FAA’s WJH Technical Center for Advanced Aerospace, Mike Paglione, provides an overview of the division’s research, analysis, and development efforts to enable new technologies, procedures, and training methods to advance aviation technology and make the skies safer for the flying public. Mike highlights the various research focus areas and describes some of the specialized facilities at the Technical Center. He then provides a deeper dive into sample research programs illustrating how the FAA research leads to specific improvements in the safety of the National Airspace System. One such program supports the safe landing of aircraft. Transport category aircraft today land faster and more often at airports with shorter runways, raising the chances of skidding off a runway when contaminated by rain, snow, or ice. The FAA Terminal Area Safety Program is studying how to reduce the risk of overruns by using the aircraft to report friction levels, and through an improved runway friction model to more accurately predict when conditions are unsafe, and an alternative action is advised. In another example, he describes the FAA’s Rotorcraft/Vertical Flight Safety Research Program which performs rotorcraft/vertical flight safety research to realize the vision of a future with zero accidents. Domestic and international stakeholders collaborate with the FAA team on helicopter safety enhancements that positively impact the safety of the vertical flight community with modeling, flight testing, and human-in-the-loop simulation experiments with rotorcraft and electric vertical take-off and landing simulators.