SKYbrary is a
wiki created by the
European Organisation for the Safety of Air Navigation,
International Civil Aviation Organization, and the
Flight Safety Foundation to create a comprehensive source of aviation safety information freely available online. It was launched in May 2008 on a platform based on
MediaWiki. The Flight Safety Foundation (a founding member) defines SKYbrary's goal as: capturing authoritative aviation industry information and create cumulative knowledge, especially with regard to critical safety issues. HindSight Magazine related to SKYbrary received the Cecil A. Brownlow Publication Award in 2009 at the FSF International Air Safety Seminar (IASS).
SKYbrary's way of working
SKYbrary is driven by a
risk based knowledge management approach, meaning:
# Information must be in the right place at the right time.
# Managing knowledge helps ensure that organizations have appropriate capabilities in place (linking ability to innovate and capacity planning).
# Effective management of knowledge helps organizations share best practice more effectively, avoiding duplication of effort, whatever the daily operational constraints.
SKYbrary's Management and Quality Assurance process is described in detail on Skybrary Content Management.
SKYbrary uses the
Semantic MediaWiki extension to annotate
semantic data within articles.
SKYbrary structure
The SKYbrary front page gives visitors access to aviation safety knowledge via three portals. Each portal then contains numerous categories of articles chosen because of their relevance to aviation safety professionals. Current categories in use:
Operational Issues
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Air Ground Communication
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Airspace Infringement
Airspace is the portion of the atmosphere controlled by a country above its territory, including its territorial waters or, more generally, any specific three-dimensional portion of the atmosphere. It is not the same as aerospace, which is the ...
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Bird Strike
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Controlled Flight Into Terrain
* Fire
* Ground Operations
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Human Factors
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Level Bust
A level bust, also known as an altitude deviation, occurs when an aircraft fails to fly at the level for which it has been cleared. A level bust is defined by EUROCONTROL as: "Any unauthorised vertical deviation of more than 300 feet from an ATC ...
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Loss of Control
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Loss of Separation
In air traffic control, separation is the name for the concept of keeping an aircraft outside a minimum distance from another aircraft to reduce the risk of those aircraft colliding, as well as prevent accidents due to secondary factors, such as ...
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Runway Excursion
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Runway Incursion
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Wake Vortex Turbulence
* Weather
* General
Enhancing Safety
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Airworthiness
* Flight Technical
* Safety Management
Safety Nets* Theory of Flight
* General
Safety Regulations
* Certification
* ESARRs
* Licensing
* Regulation
* General
Miscellaneous
* Author's Articles
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Accident and Serious Incident Reports
* Help
References
External links
SKYbrary websiteEUROCONTROL
ICAOFlight Safety Foundation
DNV (Det Norske Veritas) about the Safety ImperativeAir Transport NewsSKYway spring 2008*
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Aviation safety
Semantic wikis
Aviation websites
Internet properties established in 2008