All Ops & safety articles – Page 1373
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Airlines challenge Brussels plan for weekend noise ban
AIRLINES ARE OPPOSING a plan by the Belgian transport ministry to ban noisy aircraft at Brussels Zaventem Airport during weekends. The curfew affects non-Chapter 3 aircraft, such as the McDonnell Douglas DC-9, Boeing 727-100/200, 737-200 and the Fokker F28. No flights with these aircraft types will be allowed to depart ...
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Advanced flightdecks
ALL FUTURE DOUGLAS (DAC) aircraft will share a common display and avionics architecture to be based around Honeywell's Versatile Integrated Avionics concept, VIA 2000. The MD-95 will be the first aircraft to be equipped with the full system, while the MD-90 is set to be changed to ...
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European bosses accuse pilots on flight-limits issue
PILOTS HAVE "HIJACKED" the issue of joint European flight-time limitations (FTL) as a route to securing improvements in their working conditions, claim the region's airline chiefs. The draft Joint Aviation Regulation on FTL was highlighted as one of the major threats to the airline industry's fledgling recovery as ...
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Mielec offers improved M-28 Skytruck
POLISH manufacturer PZL-Mielec is offering an improved version of its M-28 Skytruck high-wing twin turboprop, which it says will have an increased maximum take-off weight. The company has so far produced one aircraft with the optional improvements, which increase take-off weight by 500kg to 7,500kg. The ...
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CFM hits back at IAE claims as V2500 is flown on Airbus A319
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES CFM INTERNATIONAL is challenging the competitive claims of International Aero Engines (IAE), as the manufacturer of V2500 celebrates a successful first flight on the Airbus A319 at Toulouse on 22 May. The planned culmination of the 200h A319 flight-test programme in December, ...
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DASA modifies antenna to cure EF2000's radar
Andrzej Jeziorski/MUNICH DAIMLER-BENZ Aerospace (DASA) has overcome persistent problems with the Eurofighter EF2000's ECR90 radar by modifying the antenna design. According to DASA airborne-systems division vice-president Manfred Jacobsen, the radar suffered radome-compatibility problems, leading to "backflash". The high-energy emissions from the antenna were ...
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March 1997 targeted for North Atlantic reduced separation
Kieran Daly and Max Kingsley-Jones/LONDON REDUCED VERTICAL-separation minima in North Atlantic oceanic airspace are to be introduced on a phased basis from 27 March, 1997. Although the new date is three months behind the target date, it is ahead of the most pessimistic estimates. According to ...
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Turbomeca
Jean-Bernard Cocheteux, formerly deputy general manager of French components-manufacturer Labinal and general manager at engine manufacturer Turbo- m,ca, has been appointed chairman and chief executive at Turbom,ca. He succeeds Sonia Meton, who died in a recent accident. Christine Meton, her daughter and granddaughter of Turbom,ca founder Joseph Szydiowski, joins the ...
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Wicat pulls in trainer sales
WICAT SYSTEMS has secured contracts for McDonnell Douglas MD-80, MD-90 and MD-11 part-task trainers and unveiled plans to develop similar devices for the Boeing 777. SAS Flight Academy, part of Scandinavian Airlines System, has ordered an MD-90 systems trainer for delivery in the third quarter of 1996. It ...
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Planetary passport
Will there ever be a universal pilot's licence? David Learmount/LONDON LIKE THE "UNIVERSAL" language Esperanto, a world-standard for pilots' licences seems like a good idea, but no-one puts it into practice. Unemployed pilots dream of being able to follow work wherever in the world the ...
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Muddy waters
THE GREATEST problem of aircraft-accident investigation is not the disappearance of the evidence into a Florida swamp or the unreadability of data-recorder tapes. It is the demand by the mass media and its customers for instant answers, and the temptation of those on the periphery of the investigation to give ...
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JAR-FCL update
THE JAR-FCL COMMITTEE meeting to approve draft five of the regulations was held in Dublin, Ireland, during the week ending 10 May. Draft five, having taken account of all input, is intended to form the JAR-FCL regulation for fixed-wing-aircraft pilots. JAR-FCL Part Two, for helicopter pilots, is not ready yet. ...
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Training must be a viable industry
Sir - I refer to your leader "Unique Internationalism" and story "AST becomes first victim of UK training policy" (Flight International, 8-14 May, P3, P6). Rumours of the demise of Air Services Training (AST) predate either National Vocational Qualifications (NVQs) or foreign training. In fact, the school is ...
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ICAO mechanism
Sir - The editorial "An unsafe idea" (Flight International, 10-16 April) asserts that the US Federal Aviation Administration's initiative, which "...has led to the application of sanctions against unsafe airlines, or airlines from unsafe countries", was endorsed by the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO). This is inaccurate. ICAO, ...
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FAA investigates ValuJet
IN FEBRUARY 1996, the FAA initiated a 120-day Special Emphasis Review because of the low-fare carrier's exceptionally high growth-rate and four safety-related incidents in January and February 1996. On 14 May, FAA administrator David Hinson denied that low-cost airlines, such as ValuJet, are in any way less safe ...
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Oxygen canister cargo
THE VALUJET DC-9's cargo manifest reveals that up to 60 oxygen generators of a type used to supply passenger emergency oxygen masks in DC-10s and MD-80s were being carried as cargo to Atlanta, ValuJet's base. If charged, the generators can produce considerable heat when activated, scorching nearby material or fabric, ...
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FlightSafety fields its first cabin trainer
FLIGHTSAFETY International (FSI) has installed its first business-aircraft cabin trainer at its Atlanta, Georgia, training centre. The device, built by FSI's Simulation Systems division, is being used for corporate flight-attendant training. The 12m-long cabin and door/hatch trainer represents a Gulfstream business jet, but is being used to provide ...
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British Midland reveals Eurostar impact
Kevin O'Toole/LONDON BRITISH MIDLAND (BM) admits that competition from the Channel Tunnel rail link from London to Paris and Brussels effectively halved its potential profits in 1995, but group chairman Sir Michael Bishop says that the airline has now weathered the worst of the Tunnel's impact. Although the airline managed ...
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Boeing probe
The US Justice Department has opened an investigation into alleged bribes used by former Boeing subsidiary, de Havilland Aircraft, to secure a $64 million order for five Dash 8s from BahamasAir in 1991. The allegations came to light earlier this year after Canadian entrepreneur Craig Dobbin filed a $900 million ...
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Location decision for third Paris airport delayed
THE PLAN FOR a third international airport in the Paris region has run into further trouble following another bout of political infighting over its location. President Chirac's Government has previously said that the decision on the location of the airport is a priority, to prepare for the expected ...