My FAA associates and I have been in what is called the Emergency and Disaster preparedness business for many years. A tripped power line recloser, a failed Diesel E/G, or a Sunday midnight absence of a critical employee all often can be an FAA emergency, that is the same level of crisis as losing power in a hospital operating room during a patients major operation. What happens if runway lights go out as a plane is approaching for landing, or an Air traffic controller's screen fails with no radar data or even worse goes blank. Today's speakers cover three subjects all FAA power engineers live with constantly.

1. There is a tremendous need for a pipeline full of trained power electrical engineers who are available for 20 year careers.

2. Diesel fuel goes bad in 30 to 60 days. How can this be reliably avoided?

3. All critical power systems must have dual independent power buses with the capability of switching to the back-up power in 20 milliseconds or less.

Speaker: Richard Baugh ABS, Inc.

Paper Presentations

Reliability, Availability and Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM): The Mission Critical Triangle

Power Quality or Power Availability: When Priority Matters!

Microbiological Contamination & Microbiologically Influenced Corrosion (MIC) in Fuel Storage Tanks