All Safety News – Page 1455
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Playing tag
Karen Walker/ATLANTA THE US FEDERAL AVIATION Administration plans to award two contracts in March for competitive development of a system which "tags" returns from an airport surface-movement radar with aircraft identity. AlliedSignal and Cardion plan to bid for the airport-traffic identification system (ATIDS), one element of the FAA's ...
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Hughes deals change shape of commercial simulator fleet
HUGHES FLIGHT Training in the UK has announced a series of deals, which will result in a reshaping of its commercial flight-simulator fleet. The London Gatwick-based independent training centre, formerly British Caledonian Flight Training has repositioned a Boeing 737-300/400 simulator, from Gatwick to Alaska Airlines' training centre in ...
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Dangers of paying less than going rate
Sir - British Airways is the latest to install a "B"-scale salary level for new pilots. Will this "deprofessionalisation" of skills be halted before the long-term effect is to render the skies less safe? The cost-cutting rationale, which drives the airlines, will inevitably lead to less suitable candidates, ...
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Syrianair officers train in Arizona
PHOENIX-BASED AIRLINE Training Center Arizona (ATCA), a Lufthansa subsidiary, is providing first-officer training for Syrian Arab Airlines. ATCA says, that it was selected by Syrianair after the Arab carrier, evaluated several US flight schools. Students are being trained to US commercial pilot's-licence standard in a programme involving ground ...
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TRO strikes courseware deal with FSI
FLIGHTSAFETY International (FSI) has agreed to use TRO Learning's library of computer-based pilot- and maintenance-training courseware at its simulator centres. FSI will also market TRO's courseware to its airline clients. Minneapolis, Minnesota-based TRO has developed pilot-training courseware for the Airbus A300-600, A310, A320, A330 and A340, Boeing 737-300/400/500, ...
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Four were killed in Long March crash
THE LONG MARCH 3B booster (LM3B) which exploded and crashed 1.5km downrange from the Xichang launch centre, China, T+25s after launch on 14 February, killed four people and injured 52, China Great Wall Industry (CGWIC) has confirmed (Flight International, 21-27 February). The failure resulted in the loss of the Intelsat ...
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US airlines back in profit - for now
US airlines are back in profit, but the lessons of recession linger on. Kevin O'Toole/LONDON THE NOTORIOUS business cycles of the airline industry have at last come full circle for the US carriers. Just two years ago, three of the majors were fighting their way out of ...
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American warns on pilfered 757 parts
AMERICAN AIRLINES HAS issued a warning to the air-transport industry that "...stolen and damaged Boeing 757 parts are entering the surplus market". The airline says that there has been extensive looting from the wreckage of its 757 which crashed in mountains near Cali, Colombia, on 20 December, 1995. ...
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Russia plans to restructure its aviation administration
RUSSIAN FIRST DEPUTY prime minister Oleg Soskovets, has confirmed that his Government is to establish a federal aviation administration, to improve state control of the civil-aviation industry (Flight International, 21-27 February). At a transport ministry meeting to review the results of the air-transport industry in 1995, ...
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SAS profits as restructuring pays dividends
LONG-RUNNING restructuring efforts at Scandinavian Airlines System (SAS) began to pay dividends in 1995 as the carrier's profits soared, also helped by a rise in European business traffic. The Scandinavian carrier ended the year with a profit of more than SKr2.5 billion ($360 million), up from only SKr388 ...
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Italian Government backs fresh Alitalia union talks
ALITALIA HAS opened new talks with its unions, to be overseen by the Italian Government and based on a more conciliatory, four-point, restructuring plan. Chairman Renato Riverso says that the new plan, which has been approved by the airline's parent, state-holding company IRI, will include a renewed ...
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Honeywell predicts Pegasus boom
MORE THAN 700 Boeing 757/767s and McDonnell Douglas MD-90/MD-11s could be retrofitted with Honeywell's newly developed Pegasus flight-management system (FMS), according to the company. The Pegasus FMS has 25 times the throughput capacity and up to 16 times more memory than that of the existing systems and will ...
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IPTN speeds up N-2130 regional-jet programme
Paul Lewis/BANDUNG INDUSTRI PESAWAT Terbang Nusantara (IPTN) has advanced the planned entry-into-service date of the proposed N-2130 regional jet by two years, in response to domestic demand and forthcoming foreign competition. With Japan trying to revive its YS-X programme and talks on the Chinese/South Korean ...
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Pilots beware
Sir - As the UK British Airline Pilots Association (BALPA) and the Independent Pilots Association (IPA) have received many recent enquiries, we are offering some cautionary advice to pilots seeking employment. We are led to believe that pilots are being offered employment verbally, subject to their obtaining UK ...
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Statistics reflect the effects
Sir - I have lectured for 25 years on flight safety and, with reference to the Viscount article (Flight International, 20 December-2 January, P30), the hot-air anti-ice system does not necessarily supply sufficient heat to the tail-section leading edges in severe icing conditions, unless the fuel flow to engines two ...
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ValuJet expands fleet
VALUJET AIRLINES has purchased nine McDonnell Douglas (MDC) DC-9-30s and two MD-83s in deals which will take its fleet to 58 aircraft by the end of the first quarter of 1997. MDC helped locate the aircraft under the terms of ValuJet's launch order for 50 MDC MD-95s, deliveries of which ...
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Industry fights 'devastating' FAA flight-time proposal
Graham Warwick/Atlanta PROPOSED NEW US Federal Aviation Administration rules on pilot flight and duty time will "devastate" the US on-demand air-charter industry, says the US National Air Transportation Association (NATA). Many charter companies and fixed-base operators will be unable to bear the cost of the additional pilots required ...
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Technical details
THE 407 WAS certificated by the Canadian Civil Aviation Authority, just a few days before our flight. US Federal Aviation Administration certification will follow. Even before this, more than 150 orders have been placed, with about 100 deposits paid. Initial deliveries will be at Heli-Expo '96 in Dallas, Texas, on ...
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British Airways/United to launch AlliedSignal EGPWS flight tests
Allan Winn/SINGAPORE Kieran Daly/LONDON TWO MAJOR AIRLINES are about to begin trials of AlliedSignal's enhanced ground-proximity warning system (EGPWS). By the end of February, the system will be flying on a British Airways Boeing 747-400 and, in May, United Airlines is to begin a three-month revenue-service trial ...
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SAS concentrates on fleet requirement beyond 2000
Gunter Endres/LONDON SCANDINAVIAN AIRLINES System (SAS) is to study a plan to purchase between ten and 20 long- and medium-range aircraft to add to its fleet starting by the year 2000. The study will examine the case for retaining the Boeing 767 in the SAS fleet ...