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Airport Advisory Board to consider turning pilot flight-safety task force into standing subcommittee; county to take task to two readings
Summary
Pitkin County staff asked commissioners to support moving a pilot-focused flight-safety task force into a standing subcommittee of the Airport Advisory Board; commissioners directed staff to proceed to two readings and raised questions about membership, FAA authority and outreach to visiting pilots.
Pitkin County commissioners on Sept. 30 reviewed a proposal to elevate a pilot-run Flight Safety Task Force to a standing subcommittee of the Airport Advisory Board (AAB), and gave staff direction to advance the proposal to two readings.
Diane and Nora, county staff working with airport advisory efforts, told the board the task force began in 2022 with 12 pilots focused on pilot safety on the ground and in the air. The recommended change would formalize that group as a standing AAB subcommittee with appointees vetted by the county.
Proponents said the group’s narrow focus on pilot-to-pilot education—briefings, videos and peer outreach—is intended to improve safety…
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