GfL delivers safety assessment concerning the partial runway renewal at Stuttgart airport
September 2018 | Certification
In the run-up to the planned renewal of runway 07/25 with simultaneous flight operations at Stuttgart airport in 2020, the competent authority Ministry of Transport Baden-Wuerttemberg assigned GfL to conduct a safety assessment (see news August 2018). The assessment focused on the infrastructural and procedural measures (e.g. adjustment of lights and markings) determined by Flughafen Stuttgart GmbH (FSG) being applied during the construction works. Within this scope, measures were inspected for EASA compliance as well as suitability and completeness regarding safe flight operations.
As a result, specific compliance measures were determined to remove infrastructural deviations according to EASA being found. Further on a comprehensive hazard analysis was conducted (main hazards: RWY overruns resp. undershoots, obstacle collision etc.) which based on empirical flight accident analysis, expert workshops and conclusions derived from RWY construction at other airports. In order to mitigate the risks which may result from these hazards, additional infrastructural and operational measures were specified (inter alia publication of shortened takeoff and landing distances at AIP, ATIS and NOTAM, provision of an construction site information system (online briefing tool) etc.). By implementing this set of risk mitigation measures, safe interim flight operations can be guaranteed even during the construction phases at any time.
