The Federal Aviation Administration’s 42nd annual General
Aviation and Part 135 Activity Survey (GA Survey) is coming to an end. If you
are selected to participate in this year’s survey, you will receive either an
email or postcard invitation to complete the GA Survey soon. You may complete
the survey online, or a survey form will be mailed to you along with a
postage-paid envelope. There are only a couple of weeks left to submit
responses. Please complete the survey if you received one. It is important for us to collect valuable
data about our industry to pinpoint our education and safety programs.
If you have three or more aircraft and have been receiving
survey requests for each individual aircraft, the GA survey coordinators have
created a shorter version of the survey that you can fill out for aggregate
reporting to reduce the time required to submit a response.
Data from this survey are used by governmental agencies and
industry to:
- Compute safety metrics, such as fatal accidents
rates.
- Understand the impact of the GA industry on
jobs, economic output, and investments in aviation infrastructure.
- Track the success of safety initiatives,
including avionics recommendations.
- Determine funding for infrastructure and service
needs.
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Assess the impact of regulatory changes.
Of particular importance to the aerial application industry
is using the GA survey data to calculate an accurate accident rate for our
industry, which is valuable for demonstrating the continuously improving safety
of aerial application. To do that, the FAA needs an accurate tally of the hours
flown in 2019. It only takes 10 to 15 minutes to complete the survey, which you can
do online or on a survey form that will be mailed to you with a postage-paid
envelope. Or, call Tetra Tech toll-free at 1-800-826-1797. The information is
confidential and will only be used for statistical purposes and will not be
published or released in any form that would reveal an individual participant.
