Overview of Current Progress and Development of Seaplane Safety Management

The seaplane has the dual characters of both the ship and the aircraft, including the heavy load, fast speed of flight and able to fly in the surface of water. Recently, the seaplane has been developed rapidly. But due to the safety management of seaplane involves two department of maritime and aviation, safety management still lacks clear definition, and the research on this topic is at the beginning, for the various stages of navigation safety in the risk identification is lack of corresponding research. The paper summarized the safety management from the angle of the seaplane as the ship's navigation. Firstly, the performance characteristics of the seaplane are summarized. Secondly, from the six aspects of laws and regulations, inspection and certification and registration, driver training, navigable water security, water pollution management and company management were reviewed on the current seaplane safety management. Thirdly, the generic seaplane model developed according to the experience of International Maritime Organization on ship safety management, based on seaplane with characteristics of similar ships. At last, the paper summarized the significant study on seaplane and, then several theoretical and practical possible research areas of seaplane are definitely proposed. The research results have the theoretical significance for the management pattern of the seaplane.