All Ops & safety articles – Page 1386
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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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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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Extra EA400 tourer nears maiden flight
Andrzej Jeziorski/MUNICH GERMAN AIRCRAFT manufacturer Extra-Flugzeugbau expects to conduct the maiden flight of its Extra EA400 touring aircraft by mid-March. The company says that the aircraft is in a final round of ground tests leading up to its aerial debut. The exact date of the ...
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Time out
IT IS "...POTENTIALLY the most expensive rulemaking ever proposed", says one industry association of the US Federal Aviation Administration's plan to revamp the rules governing pilot flight and duty times. "Asinine" is another association's less-guarded assessment of the proposed regulations. "This could be the first $1 billion rule," suggests one ...
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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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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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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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As McDonnell Douglas revises JAST design
The McDonnell Douglas-led JAST team has unveiled a near-tailless aircraft, using main-engine thrust-vectoring to achieve pitch, roll and yaw control. In 1995, it dropped the gas-driven lift-fan concept for a lift-plus-lift/cruise short take-off and vertical-landing configuration. In this, a forward engine being developed by General Electric/ Allison provides ...
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PZL-Okecie to replace crashed prototype
POLISH AIRCRAFT manufacturer PZL-Okecie says that it wants to build another PZL-130T Turbo Orlik to replace the prototype lost in a fatal crash on 25 January. Contrary to earlier reports that the accident involved the Pratt & Whitney-powered PZL-130TC (Flight International, 7-13 February), marketing and sales director Maciej ...
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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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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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Russia sets up aviation body
RUSSIA'S NEWLY appointed transport minister, Nikolai Tsakh, plans to announce the formation of a new Federal Aviation Service by the end of this month. The body is being created to help improve state control of civil aviation and co-ordinate its development. Air-traffic-control agency Rosaeronavigatsia will be incorporated ...
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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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New conflict looms at Air Inter
Gilbert Sedbon/PARIS FAILURE TO AGREE on a new contract for pilots at Air Inter Europe is pulling the financially struggling domestic and regional wing of the Air France Group towards a new crisis. Passenger traffic fell by 7% in 1995, to 15.7 million, largely because ...
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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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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 ...
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The criteria for flightpaths are incomplete
Sir -It is stated in the article "Wavionix speeds up design of air-traffic flight patterns" (Flight International, 24-30 January, P23) that en route airways flightpaths are designed according to criteria laid down by the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) aircraft operations manual. ICAO Document 8168 - Procedures for ...
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Training
Winner: Singapore Aviation Academy Achievement: Providing a level and breadth of training unique in Asia-Pacific. The Singapore Aviation Academy, the training arm of the Singapore Civil Aviation Authority has created a training centre with a broad range of services unique in South-East Asia. The capabilities of the ...