Company Overview
Aviation Projects is a multi-disciplinary consultancy, firmly focussed on achieving our purpose of a safe, secure, efficient and sustainable aviation industry.
Our unique understanding of the aviation industry and the strategic relationships we have with regulators and a broad range of industry participants positions us to provide best practice management expertise applicable to airports and flying operations.  Download our brochure here
Airports
Airport operators are faced with increasingly complex compliance and management programs, as well a lack of affordable management expertise. We can provide independent advice or take full contractual responsibility for:

• Strategic planning
• Ensuring compliance with statutory requirements including Civil Aviation Safety Regulations,                  Transport Security Regulations and other state and federal government legislation
• Managing the allocation of scarce resources

Flying Operations
The growth in civil aviation flying activities around the world has led to a shortage of expertise available to assist in the establishment and ongoing management of safe, secure, efficient and sustainable flying operations. Our extensive experience in this field enables us to provide targeted expertise to assist with the full range of aviation planning, compliance and management programs.

Aeronautical Studies and Risk Management
Where aviation impacts have been identified or deviations from applicable regulations, standards or guidance are necessary, we can assist regulators, developers or operators to achieve desired outcomes through preparation of an aeronautical study or impact assessment.
We can assist with the identification of potential risks associated with a proposed course of action and development of a treatment plan in order to maintain an acceptable level of safety through preparation of a risk assessment.
We sponsor academic research into subjects that assist us to achieve our mission.
Expert witness services can also be provided.


Core Capabilities
Our expertise in airport and flying operations is focussed on three core areas of activity; planning, operations and management.

PLANNING
We assist organisations to maximise the return on their invested capital through strategic planning initiatives, analysing current circumstances, facilities and systems and proposing and implementing improvements where appropriate.

OPERATIONS
We assist aviation organisations to operate safely, securely and effectively.

MANAGEMENT
We assist organisations to achieve sustainable outcomes, assure stakeholders that their management activities comply with all relevant regulatory requirements, ensure that scarce resources are allocated to achieve quality, time or cost objectives using appropriate management techniques, and retain and distribute corporate knowledge through the development of policies, procedures and supporting documentation.


Current Issues
Runway Width, Runway Strip Width and Approach Surface Length of Inner Edge
A new standard is proposed that will permit aircraft to operate from a runway narrower than that required by Table 6.2-1 in Manual of Standards Part 139 – Aerodromes only if that aircraft has been certified by an authorised certifying authority to be able to unconditionally operate on the narrower runway.
This proposed change will require those aerodromes with 30 m wide runways that support A320, B737 or E190 aircraft operations to widen the runway to 45 m in order to continue to support these aircraft. Other aircraft affected include the B350, which as a code 2B aircraft requires a 23 m wide runway.
To make this change, CASA has initiated project AS 11/15 – Review of Manual of Standards Part 139 – Aerodromes, Chapter 6, Section 2 – Runway Widths and Review of CAR235A Instrument – Instructions – minimum runway width for aeroplanes.
The project objectives are identified by CASA as follows:

• Amend CAR 235A - Instrument - minimum runway width for aeroplanes to replace the FAA runway width tables with the ICAO runway width tables.
• Amend MOS Part 139, Chapter 6, Section 6.2 to remove reference to CAR 235A and instructions under CAR 235A permitting runway widths narrower than the requirement of Table 6.2-1.
• Amend MOS Part 139, Chapter 6, Section 6.2 to remove specific reference to the Airbus A380 and promulgate generic standards to cater for new large aeroplane types.
• Amend MOS Part 139, Chapter 6, Section 6.2 to only permit aeroplanes which have been certified to unconditionally operate on runways less than the minimum runway required by Table 6.2-1, for the same aeroplane type, to do so.

As well as providing a wider runway, aerodrome operators may also have to increase the runway strip width and approach surface length of inner edge in order to conform to the applicable standards. In some cases, conformance with the standards will result in significant and onerous limitations to future development.
Keith Tonkin is involved in this project working group providing specialist technical, risk management and operational input as a representative of the Australian Airports Association.  

FURTHER INFORMATION
For further information about this project, please contact us.
Information is also available on the CASA website:
http://www.casa.gov.au/scripts/nc.dll?WCMS:PWA::pc=PC_100451