Flight Technologies and Procedures Division

Flight Operations Group

Mission

The Flight Operations Group is responsible for developing safe CNS and air traffic management operations using existing and emerging technologies and innovative operational concepts.

Responsibilities (PDF)

Projects and Programs

  • Airborne Collision Avoidance Systems (TCAS / ACAS)
  • Airport operations, including continuity of service, simultaneous approach operations, special approach procedures, and aviation lighting
  • Aviation weather
  • Category II/III approach procedure facilities and operator approvals
  • CSPO
  • Data communications
  • Data link and display of aeronautical information
  • Existing and emerging aircraft technologies (i.e., ADS-B, Electronic Flight Bag)
  • Flight Standards Handbooks (responsibility for sections relating to Division’s mission)
  • GNSS interference/disruption
  • ICAO flight operations
  • LAHSO
  • Landing navigation aids and lighting systems
  • Long-range navigation and navigation systems
  • New Entrants
  • Oceanic and remote continental operations
  • Performance based communication, navigation, and surveillance
  • RNAV, RNP, RNP-RNAV
  • Special areas of operation and special-use airspace
  • Streamlined Part 91 Operational Approval
  • Vision systems, including EFVS, CVS, and SVS
  • Wake turbulence avoidance and wake separation standards
  • Wake turbulence research program office support
     

Useful Links

Handbook

Address:
Federal Aviation Administration
Flight Technologies and Procedures Division
Flight Operations Group
6500 S. MacArthur Blvd.
Building 26, Suite 217
Oklahoma City, OK 73169

Email: 9-AWA-AVS-AFS410@faa.gov

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