Operational safety of the Ramón Villeda Morales International Airport runway to aerodrome certification

Abstract

This article refers to research that is a contribution to strengthening to the culture of Aviation Safety, in one of the four international airports in Honduras. It is expected that the findings of this study encourage, the activation of mechanisms that the possibility of accidents/incidents decline during activities taking place in the areas of movement of an aerodrome, in this case referring to the track 04-22 of the International Airport Ramón Villeda Morales in La Lima, Cortés. The Airports according to international regulations strive to comply with the required standards of safety, establishing controls to mitigate potential risks by applying security standards defined by the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) in Annex 14. With data collection and monitoring programmed to track 04-22, along with the certification team concessionaire Airports of Honduras (Interairports, SA) and the Department of Aeronautical Sciences (DCA) of the National Autonomous University of Honduras (UNAH), several risks were identified to implement improvements to safety at the airport, so that areas of the track that do not yet comply with national and international regulations identified, obstacles present at the airfield that can generate a daily risk to aircraft operations, the areas around the airfield where more bird and wildlife presence that could generate at some point a raid on track.