2008 Essential Guide to NASA's National Aviation Monitoring Service (NAOMS), Controversial Aviation Safety Database (CD-ROM)

This up-to-date and comprehensive electronic book on CD-ROM disc presents a vital collection of important NASA documents, reports, and files about the National Aviation Monitoring Service (NAOMS), a controversial aviation safety database released in late December 2007 after Congressional hearings into the project. All of the documents released to the public at that time are included in this collection. The National Aviation Monitoring Service (NAOMS) concept originated in 1997 in the Aviation Safety Investment Strategy Team (ASIST) planning workshops that led up to the launch of NASA's Aviation Safety Program (AvSP). This report summarizes the methodological development work that was done on the NAOMS project from 1998 to early 2007 by Battelle. No program at that time provided decision-makers with statistically defensible estimates of the frequencies with which unwanted events occurred in the nation's airspace. Nor was it known with acceptable levels of certainty whether the frequencies of such occurrences were following upward or downward trends. Similarly, the national capacity to measure the effects of aviation safety interventions and to uncover unwanted side effects from those interventions was limited. NAOMS was built to help remedy these aviation safety measurement deficiencies by providing data that are statistically meaningful and representative of the safety trends occurring within the national airspace, thus allowing the aviation safety community to perform improved, data-driven analysis. The NAOMS concept involved the use of carefully designed and executed surveys to solicit information from the operators of the aviation system - first, air carrier pilots, and then others, such as general aviation (GA) pilots. The information provided by these operator groups could be combined to provide a multifaceted picture of national aviation system safety in conjunction with other national aviation safety data sets. NAOMS surveys primarily asked participants about their experiences during flight operations as opposed to their opinions on aviation safety. Questions related to operational activity (risk exposure), unwanted events, and special topics, such as the effects of safety interventions. Contents of this extensive collection include: INITIATION OF NAOMS INFORMATION RELEASE REVIEW * NAOMS AIR CARRIER SURVEY DATA (25,105) * PARTIAL RAW AIR CARRIER SURVEY RESPONSES (25,762) * GRIFFIN TELECOM TRANSCRIPT * SURVEY RESPONSE REDACTION SUMMARY * REFERENCE REPORT, CONCEPTS, METHODS, AND DEVELOPMENT ROADMAP, BATTELLE MEMORIAL INSTITUTE FOR NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER This CD-ROM disc is packed with over 13,000 pages reproduced using Adobe Acrobat PDF software - allowing direct viewing on Windows and Macintosh systems. The Acrobat cataloging technology adds enormous value and uncommon functionality to this impressive collection of government documents and material. This CD-ROM uses next-generation search technology that allows complete indexing and makes all files on the disc fully searchable.