Braking Action Reports and Advisories.

Braking Action Reports and Advisories

 

Braking-Action reports Snow_Plow

The purpose of this post is to provide and review the Aviation Community with Safety Information, that this informative concept about Braking Action Reports during landing on wet, icy or snow covered runways during this time of the year. Icing may occur during any season of the year but in temperature climates such as cover most of the contiguous United States; icing is more frequent in winter.

So, where runway friction is low or nil, aerodynamic breaking becomes much more important.

Use aerodynamic drag to your advantage on landing, especially when the runway is wet or icy.

Also recollect and review that there are three types of hydroplaning, so let’s understand Dynamic, Viscous, or reverted.

Landing phases accidents happen any time, what can you do to prevent that you as a Pilot in Command to stay away from accidents? So, the recommendations given in my Safety Post are only to intend to be helpful aids only to help Pilots to fly safely all the time. Most accidents some end up and attributed to Pilot Error. But I want to emphasize that the term Pilot Error does not imply that all errors are the fault of the pilot. Occasionally external circumstances are the cause of others factors, the most important it is to knowing why we as Pilots make errors and study again the concepts well to preventing incidents and accidents.

Braking Action Reports and Advisories

a. When available, ATC furnishes pilots the quality of braking action received from pilots or airport management. The quality of braking action is described by the terms “good,” “fair,” “poor,” and “nil,” or a combination of these terms. When pilots report the quality of braking action by using the terms noted above, they should use descriptive terms that are easily understood, such as, “braking action poor the first/last half of the runway,” together with the particular type of aircraft.

b. For NOTAM purposes, braking action reports are classified according to the most critical term (“fair,” “poor,” or “nil”) used and issued as a NOTAM(D).

c. When tower controllers have received runway braking action reports which include the terms poor or nil, or whenever weather conditions are conducive to deteriorating or rapidly changing runway braking conditions, the tower will include on the ATIS broadcast the statement, “BRAKING ACTION ADVISORIES ARE IN EFFECT.”

d. During the time that braking action advisories are in effect, ATC will issue the latest braking action report for the runway in use to each arriving and departing aircraft. Pilots should be prepared for deteriorating braking conditions and should request current runway condition information if not volunteered by controllers. Pilots should also be prepared to provide a descriptive runway condition report to controllers after landing.

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