Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 15 February 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport

Engagement with the Irish Air Line Pilots' Association

Mr. Evan Cullen:

I am quoting from the State's safety plan as published by the IAA. It states:

The electronic terrain and obstacle data In Ireland, the IAA provides Electronic Terrain And Obstacle Data (ETOD), for use by industry stakeholders, such as [global positioning systems] GPS and [flight management systems] FMS database suppliers. The ETOD helps to eliminate database transfer errors in on-board [terrain awareness warning systems] TAWS equipment and thereby helps minimise [control flight into terrain] CFIT occurrences.

That is in the State's safety plan. That is why we were dismayed by some of the statements made by the IAA to this committee on 24 November.

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