Airports
FAA To Change Runway Conditions Reporting on October 1
Actual runway conditions will be communicated to pilots in terms that directly relate to the way a particular aircraft is expected to perform.

Starting October 1, the FAA will be using new takeoff and landing performance assessment (TALPA) standards to reduce the risk of runway overrun accidents and incidents due to runway contamination. The FAA developed the standards based on the work of the TALPA Aviation Rulemaking Committee, which was formed after a December 2005 accident in which a Southwest Airlines 737 ran off the end of the runway at Chicago Midway Airport and into a city street after landing during a snowstorm.


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