All Ops & safety articles – Page 1352
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Living with error
Sir -The propensity for humans to make mistakes is hardly new. So why do so many aviation incident/accident reports begin with an excuse, such as: "I had just done three late shifts-"? Likewise, it is almost always the other driver who is responsible for the car accident. Why ...
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Large aircraft: Airbus v Boeing...
Sir - Your discussion of the different results from Airbus and Boeing for new large aircraft assumes that the fall in the size of aircraft flying over the North Atlantic is demand-led (Flight International, 19-25 March, P29). Could I suggest that US airlines' balance sheets a few years ...
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BA plans for 'shell company'face opposition from USA
PLANS BY British Airways to use Airline Management (AML), a start-up company, to take on tourist routes from London Gatwick to San Juan, Puerto Rico and Tampa, Florida, have run into opposition in the USA, with claims that AML is being set up as a "shell" company without its own ...
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North Korea to stay off-limits for US carriers
US airlines will be banned from North Korean national airspace even when an International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) agreement has opened the Pyongyang Flight Information Region (FIR) to international traffic, the US Federal Aviation Administration says. The FAA ruling (Special Federal Aviation Regulation No.79) clarifies US policy during ...
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ICO diputes TRW patent claims
ICO Global Communications is to campaign to invalidate patents granted to TRW, to protect the "exclusivity" of the US company's "invention" of a satellite system operating in medium-Earth orbit (MEO), to provide global communications to hand-held terminals via ground stations. Following the receipt of three US and two ...
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UK pilot-training scheme comes under threat
UK flying training schools fear that they are in danger of losing a Government scheme which can give degree status for professional-pilot graduates, along with tax relief which reduces course prices by up to ú20,000, according to a leading flying-training school. Training-industry concern has been growing about the ...
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EC compliance could delay JAR-OPS
The introduction of the first (air-transport) element of the Joint Airworthiness Authorities' (JAA) JAR-OPS 1 regulations may be delayed significantly beyond the 1 April deadline by the need to comply with European Commission's (EC's) own air-transport legislation. In a move which has taken the JAA by surprise, EC ...
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RVSIice detector takes to the...
ROBOTIC VISION Systems (RVSI) is to develop an on-aircraft wide-area ice-detection system for flight testing by the US Federal Aviation Administration. The system will be based on RVSI's hand-held ice detector, now in use with Delta Air Lines' Boston-New York-Washington shuttle service. The hand-held ID-1H is ...
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United drives hard to gain a place in the training market
UAL Services is about to install the first of up to 15 new full-flight and fixed-base simulators at its Denver-based Flight Training Center, in a determined attack on the burgeoning US third-party aircrew-training market. The installation, on 15 April, will set a milestone in a $130 million expansion, scheduled to ...
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Flight Sciences, which specialises in...
Flight Sciences, which specialises in helping airlines reduce their fuel bills by improving efficiency, expects to sign contracts with major carriers later this year, as part of its efforts to expand its client base in Europe and Asia. The US company recently completed a five-month project with Austrian ...
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PIA hunts for strategic investor
Pakistan has kicked off the search for a strategic airline-investor in Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) as the first move towards a re-capitalisation and further privatisation of the state-controlled carrier over the next 12 months. In mid-March, Pakistan's Privatisation Commission issued a tender, asking for bids from financial advisory ...
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Insurers seek increase
Aviation insurers are seeking increases of up to 25% in premiums to cover the likely cost of ending limits on passenger-liability claims under the new International Air Transport Association (IATA) regime, which is now being put into effect by airlines around the world. Limits set under the longstanding ...
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NTSB may probe pay for training
A US aircrew-training practice in which airlines require pilots to pay for their own training has prompted one of the country's leading pilot associations to call for an investigation into the practice by the US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) The practice is already under examination by a Federal Aviation ...
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Training moves
China Northern Airlines has signed an agreement to relocate its pilot training and McDonnell Douglas MD-82 simulator from the USA to FlightSafety's new Kunming Training Centre. The Chinese centre is due for completion later in the year. Source: Flight International
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Piper's two tunes
New Piper aircraft has hit its mark, it seems, with its first new model since emerging from bankruptcy nearly three years ago. Its Seneca V is a high-flying, fast, efficient aircraft which delivers equally in both aviation benefits and office ac- coutrements. With its blend of near-turboprop speed, high-altitude cruising ...
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AA pilots to strike deal?
Presidential intervention may have prevented a strike, but as another deadline loomed in the American Airlines pilots dispute, AMR chairman Bob Crandall admitted he was unsure how to resolve the central issue of regional jets. The Allied Pilots Association, which represents American's pilots, is haggling for wage increases. ...
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Airbus and Boeing agree to differ
It's time once again to upgrade airline and aerospace industry filing systems, as extra cupboards and stronger shelving are pressed into service. Yes, the forecast season is with us again. Every day, a new volume arrives, to be scanned before being filed away to gather dust until data is required ...
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Algeria plans amid chaos
The vision of the president and chief executive of Air Algérie as a profitable and privatised airline may seem more like a Saharan mirage in a country riven by a bloody, religious conflict. But Faycal Kellil's actions certainly prove he is serious. The government-owned airline became a joint ...
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Private funds elude Alitalia
Put your wallet away: Alitalia's no longer for sale. The carrier has abandoned its quest for private investors and turned to state holding company IRI for the full capital injection. The Italian treasury has now confirmed that IRI will inject the remaining L1.5 trillion (US$880 million) of fresh ...
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CAI survives the big chill
Canadian Airlines International has survived the winter with the help of government, employees and creditors, but competition in western Canada is still growing with charter operator Canada 3000 expanding its scheduled services. Canadian's cash position has improved enough to defer searching for a C$60 million (US$40 million) credit ...