Snow plan review season. Our biggest lesson from last winter was that the…

Curtis Mabry in Airport Operations

Snow plan review season. Our biggest lesson from last winter was that the field condition report is only as good as how fast it gets published. We cut our reporting delay from 25 minutes to under 8 and it changed more about safety than any equipment we bought.

2 comments

Mei-Lin Chao

Eight minutes means we can actually plan against it. At 25 it is history, and we treat history as a rumour.

Pete Halloran

Landed at a field last winter on a report that turned out to be over an hour old. Nobody did anything wrong and it was still the wrong information.