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- Analyzes and evaluates new or proposed navigation concepts for compatibility with existing, or planned instrument procedure design criteria.
- Analyzes and evaluates the execution of instrument flight procedures programs within the FAA to determine compliance with established policy.
- Assesses impact on safety of proposed changes to the NAS utilizing the Airspace Simulation and Analysis for TERPS (ASAT) computer system.
· Defines responsibilities, establishes policy, and provides standards to ensure and orderly processing of all instrument flight procedure actions.
- Develops and establishes criteria for civil and military terminal instrument procedures for issuance in the FAA Handbook 8260.3, United States Standard for Terminal Instrument Procedures (TERPS), and related FAA 8260-series orders.
- Develops national and international standards and criteria governing the operational use of air navigation facilities and systems utilized in the navigation of aircraft.
- Develops national and international standards and policies for instrument flight procedure risk assessment and risk management.
- Develops rules, standards, policies, and criteria governing the operational aspects of en route, terminal, and instrument flight procedures (except air traffic control procedures).
- Establishes requirements and provides policy guidance to the regional flight standards offices, military, cartographic agencies, and other organizations pertaining to the procurement and utilization of aviation data, including FAA No. 405, Standards for Aeronautical Surveys and Related Products.
- Evaluates changes and enhancements of airport rules regarding obstacles, equipment, and holding/taxiing aircraft relative to their impact on the safety of instrument approach operations.
- Evaluates from operational and technical viewpoints, provides necessary coordination, and recommends final approval or disapproval on requests for waiver of standards for terminal and en route instrument flight procedures.
- Evaluates the operational acceptability of changes and enhancements to air traffic rules, and procedures, and determines their impact on the safety of instrument flight procedures.
- Flight System Laboratory (FSL) evaluates the feasibility and safety associated with various operational requirements.
· Is the office of primary responsibility for establishing policy for the administration and accomplishment of the Flight Procedures and Airspace Program (Order 8260.19), including site selection and discontinuance policy.
- Is the office of primary responsibility for establishing policy for worldwide application of magnetic variation values.
- Maintains liaison and collaborates with other Government agencies, and with military, industry, and international representatives to exchange information and advance the state-of-the-art in the application of operations research techniques and collision risk methodology to for en route and terminal instrument flight procedures.
- Maintains technical and functional oversight responsibility for the Flight Standards Service regional all weather operations programs, and provides policy for the conduct of these programs.
- Performs operational evaluation, including simulation and in-flight testing of standards and criteria proposed for en route and terminal instrument flight procedures and navigation systems. Provides the division focal point for Human Factors issues relating to the establishment and charting of instrument flight procedures.
- Provides advisors, members, and Flight Standards Service representation to ICAO panels, RTCA committees, SAE bodies, FAA, and other Government program offices, and to industry, as required.
- Provides management of Flight Standards Service R&D programs established to support development of instrument flight procedures standards and criteria.
- Provides policy guidance to the regional flight standards offices, military, cartographic agencies, and other organizations pertaining to the development and charting of instrument flight procedures.
- Provides policy guidance to the regional offices, Aviation System Standards (AVN), and other organizations pertaining to airport and airspace requirements associated with the development of instrument flight procedures.
- Provides technical advice and assistance to other FAA elements, other Government agencies, and to industry on the interpretation and application of instrument flight procedure design criteria.
· Provides technical evaluation and risk assessment of instrument operations not covered by standard criteria.
- Represents the Flight Standards Service in international meetings to further U.S. interests, to develop International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) Standards and Recommended Practices (SARPS) related to instrument flight procedures, and to set navigation equipment standards impacting instrument flight procedure standards and criteria. Maintains liaison with foreign civil aviation operational and technical authorities to encourage the acceptance of U.S. instrument flight procedures standards and to foster standards with a level of safety consonant with those of the United States U.S.
- Reviews accident, incident, and enforcement investigations involving instrument flight procedures, and recommends appropriate corrective action.
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