All Ops & safety articles – Page 1344
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BFGoodrich plans to expand Skywatch
BFGOODRICH PLANS to begin shipping its Skywatch traffic-advisory system in June, following USFederal Aviation Administration approval of the system. The company says that it has taken 65 orders since launching the Skywatch, which is aimed at the general-aviation market, at the beginning of April. Flight International was given ...
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Bouw goes as profits fall at KLM prompts cost cutting
KLM has launched a cost-reduction plan aimed at saving Dfl1 billion ($528 million) over the next three years. The move comes in the face of the Dutch airline announcing a 57% fall in net profits for 1996 and the resignation of chairman Pieter Bouw. In contrast, European rivals British Airways ...
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FAA warns on joint Russian certification
The US Federal Aviation Administration has warned that progress towards a US-Russian bilateral on aircraft certification has been halted by confusion over which bodies will be responsible for airworthiness under the new Russian Air Code, and continuing problems with quality control at production plants. "The FAA has been ...
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Delta opts for fire-protection
Delta Air Lines has decided to fit its entire narrowbody fleet with cargo-bay fire-protection systems well ahead of an expected US Federal Aviation Administration airworthiness directive. Walter Kidde Aerospace, a division of Kidde Technologies, is Delta's chosen supplier of cargo-hold smoke-detectors which, together with Kidde's central cargo electronic-monitoring unit and ...
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ICAO pushes for new enforcement powers
THE INTERNATIONAL Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) is to push for powers to enforce safety and security standards for its 185 member states. President Assad Kotaite will ask the ICAO Council in June for powers to conduct compulsory safety and security audits and enforce implementation of standards. The ICAO ...
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Kai Tak engine strike
A Nippon Cargo Airlines Boeing 747-200 was damaged when its No 1 engine hit the ground during a 17 May attempted landing at Hong Kong's Kai Tak Airport. After the captain had elected to go-around, the aircraft returned for a safe landing 17min later, according to Kai Tak air traffic ...
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Pieces of paper versus experience
Sir - The adverse comment by Thomas Dallas on Capt Raby's concern over the call for increased academic standards among pilots (Letters, Flight International, 7-13 May, P52) misses the point. It still remains true that exposure to the practical is the essence of the competent pilot. It may not be ...
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RVSM modifications
Lynton Aircraft Sales, based at Kidlington in Oxford, is claiming to be the first UK operator to have certificated modifications to one of its aircraft in line with new reduced vertical-separation minima (RVSM) regulations imposed by the US Federal Aviation Administration and adopted on trial by the UK on 27 ...
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Embraer introduces long-range EMB-145
EMBRAER has launched development of a long-range version of the EMB-145 regional jet. The 50-seat aircraft will have a range of 3,000km (1,600nm), compared with 2,400km for the current EMB-145, and is to become available in April 1998. The Brazilian manufacturer says that it has no customers yet ...
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SEOS to supply HiView display for MiG-29 simulator
SEOS DISPLAYS of the UK is to supply the visual-display system for a MAPO MiG-29 full-mission simulator built by Slovakia's Virtual Reality Media (VRM). The company has selected a six-channel Prodas HiView projected display from SEOS for its FSM-29 simulator. The display provides a 180í horizontal by 90í ...
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Airbus prepares for growth versions of A340-500/600
Airbus is preparing to brief airlines on its plans to develop heavier, longer-range growth derivatives of the A340-500 and -600, as it enters the final phase of commercial negotiations with Pratt & Whitney and Rolls-Royce to decide whose engine will be offered on the baseline aircraft. The growth ...
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Trent 700 shut-downs halt ETOPs flights
Cathay Pacific Airways has suffered a second inflight shutdown of a Rolls-Royce Trent 700 engine in fewer than seven days. As a result, clearance for extended-range twin-engine operations (ETOPS) has been suspended by the Hong Kong authorities. The latest incident, involving an Airbus Industrie A330-300, occurred on 12 ...
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Chinese 737 hull damaged before crash
The fuselage of the China Southern Airlines Boeing 737-300 which crashed at Shenzhen, China, on 8 May appears to have been severely damaged before the fatal landing. According to sources close to the investigation, the 737's nose landing gear suffered major damage from an initial heavy landing in ...
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Boeing considers extending 777 fatigue testing
Boeing will decide in the next few weeks whether further fatigue testing of its 777 is required, before "tearing down" the full-scale fatigue specimen for analysis, but it is already applying test results to aircraft manufacture. Planned tests simulating 120,000 flight cycles ended in March. Boeing says that ...
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BWIA links up with Air Jamaica to cut costs
BWIA International Airways is linking with its Caribbean neighbour, Air Jamaica, to help cut costs and consolidate its position in the region. The two airlines have signed a memorandum of understanding to move forward with an "operating partnership" which could eventually lead to fleet and route integration. "The ...
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AlliedSignal begins reliability upgrades
AlliedSignal's $30 million enhancement programme for the ALF502R and LF507 engines, dubbed the XRP (extended-reliability package) has gone into top gear with the release of the first group of improvements. Major items of the "Group 1" XRP include new number two, four and five bearing packages, new number ...
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RVSM: cost must be allowed for
Sir - The extreme enthusiasm for reduced vertical separation minima (RVSM) demonstrated by United Airlines' Mark Hurston (Letters, Flight International 16-22 April, P40) is by no means universal. Has the cost of qualifying certain aircraft types for RVSM been included in his, or anyone else's, projections? Just before ...
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FAA hopes new deals will boost Central American safety
Safety oversight in Central American countries is to be boosted by the US Federal Aviation Administration as part of open-skies deals signed on 9 May. Agreements were signed with Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua. Panama had earlier signed an open-skies agreement with the USA, and ...
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ANA president forced to resign
The president of All Nippon Airways (ANA), Seiji Fukatsu, has been forced to quit after a row with two non-executive members of the airline's board over the pace and style of his reforms. In a move which has surprised many in Japan's airline industry, Fukatsu tendered his resignation, ...
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BWA is poised to place order for fleet of new ATPs
British World Airlines (BWA) is about to conclude a deal with Aero International (Regional) for a fleet of British Aerospace ATP turboprops to be introduced later this year on the passenger wet-lease market. The airline is expected to sign a deal imminently for the lease of two of ...