A-17-024
NTSB Safety Recommendation — Aviation
Recommendation text
TO THE FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION: Review and revise air traffic controller training to ensure that it provides scenario-based education, relevant to the controller’s specific facility type and location, that includes real-world examples that demonstrate the value of both fair-weather and adverse-weather pilot weather reports (PIREPs) to weather forecasters and that shows how location inaccuracies and common collection and dissemination errors, including the consolidation of multiple PIREPs, adversely affect the usefulness of the reports to all National Airspace System users.
In plain language (FlightFinder summary)
The Federal Aviation Administration is asked to review and update air traffic controller training by adding scenario-based education that is specific to each facility's type and location. The training should incorporate real-world examples that highlight the importance of pilot weather reports (PIREPs) in both good and bad weather, and demonstrate how location errors and common mistakes in collecting and sharing PIREPs (such as combining multiple reports) reduce their value for all users of the National Airspace System.
This plain-language summary is written by FlightFinder to explain the recommendation above. It is not the official wording — the verbatim NTSB text is quoted above.
Details
| Status | Closed - Acceptable Action |
|---|---|
| Mode | Aviation |
| Closed | Jun 14, 2023 |
| NTSB number | DCA15SR001 |
| Addressees | FAA |
External links
NTSB safety recommendations are advisory; addressees are not legally required to adopt them. Source: NTSB CAROL (public domain).