All articles by David Learmount – Page 26
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Engineering error
Programmes to manage maintenance errors are clearly vital, but how can they be implemented?
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Britain's first MPLs progress to type rating for Flybe
Flybe is taking a multi-pronged approach to training, pioneering schemes for pilots, cabin crew and maintenance engineers
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Deadline for passing aviation English test is looming for pilots and controllers
Next March pilots and air traffic control officers will need to pass a test of their English language skills. How will they prepare?
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Future pilot supply for the airlines
The number of aircraft being ordered is growing fast, but how are the airlines going to find the pilots to fly them?
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European volcanic upset could have been avoided
European air transport need not have been immobilised by the Eyjafjallajökull volcanic eruptions in April because the knowledge of how to deal safely with the conditions existed, a conference on the subject at the Keilir Aviation Academy, Keflavik, Iceland has heard.
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Cabin attendant wins damages for illness caused by toxic cabin air
A flight attendant from the former Australian regional carrier East-West Airlines whose health was damaged by toxic fumes in the aircraft cabin has won A$138,800 ($129,000) compensation at the high court despite an appeal by the aircraft manufacturer.
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Business jet mishandled at Kerry
A Gulfstream IV was put at high risk when its flightpath was badly managed by the crew as they were turning back to Kerry airport with a minor fault, according to anIrish Air Accident Investigation Unit report.
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NewsBoeing gets FAA approval for 787 pilot training course
The US Federal Aviation Administration has granted provisional approval for Boeing Training & Flight Services' type-rating training course for pilots preparing...
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Baltic air navigation service providers may create a functional airspace block
Polish and Lithuanian air navigation service providers (ANSP) are launching a study to determine the feasibility of a Baltic functional airspace block in preparation for Single European Sky operating practices.
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Airline safety 2010 so far: out of ideas
With many accidents stemming from loss of situational awareness, is there a case for training to prevent disorientation?
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FARNBOROUGH: Transatlantic handshake over volcanic ash measures
The Farnborough air show provided the ideal opportunity for the leaders of the European and US aerospace industries to meet and frame international agreement...
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FARNBOROUGH: Design your own cockpit with Rockwell Collins
While a customer was using Rockwell Collins' virtual avionics procedures trainer, he asked whether the touchscreen system could be used to help design a cockpit upgrade.
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FARBOROUGH: Thales calls for ideas to transform security thinking
Security arrangements for air travel are clunky and unintelligent, but Thales does not think they should stay that way.
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FARNBOROUGH: Canada uses the show to push for aerospace business
Canada and its regions have been aggressively using Farborough to push their aerospace capabilities and to tout for more companies to locate there.
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FARNBOROUGH: Virgin launches Rockwell digital altimeter
Virgin Atlantic is the launch customer for a new Rockwell Collins digital radio altimeter, to be fitted to its 10 ordered Airbus A330s that are due to begin delivery in spring 2011.
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FARNBOROUGH: Sikorsky sets up demonstration simulator for X2 concept
The technology development department of Sikorsky Aircraft has unveiled an X2 Technology light tactical helicopter simulator that will provide potential...
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FARNBOROUGH: Towering over the show
NATS, the air traffic control provider at Farnborough, is trying to confirm the identity of an intruder into the restricted airspace set up for the show.
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FARNBOROUGH: Black box inventor David Warren dies
In 1934, when he was nine years old, David Warren's father died in an air crash in his native Australia. In 1953 when a de Havilland Comet crashed he conceived the idea of a cockpit voice recorder to help accident investigators understand what contributed to the disaster, and three years ...
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FARNBOROUGH: Airbus scans air transport future through young eyes
Airbus engineers have painted a picture of an imaginary airliner that embodies the technology and ecological ambitions that passengers in 2050, "or even 2030", could reasonably expect to see.
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FARNBOROUGH:Tecnam and Airborne create ultra-low-cost surveillance
Working with general aviation aircraft manufacture Tecnam, Austria-based Airborne Technologies (hall 3, stand C19) has created an ultra-low-cost surveillance system for observation, law enforcement, mapping and sensing missions.