About AST

After the Southwest Airlines Runway accident at the Midway Airport of Chicago, in December of 2005, it became apparent that the safety standards of Airports needed to be increased.  As a response, in 2007, Aviation Safety Technologies (AST) was formed with the purpose of introducing real-time reporting of true aircraft braking and cornering performance into the National Airspace Systems (NAS).  AST aims to achieve this through quantitative measuring devices for determining runway conditions.  Furthermore AST wants to: calculate true braking and cornering coefficients, making data useable and in real-time and applying trend analysis for predictive modeling.