All Ops & safety articles – Page 1395
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British World's Viscounts soldier on
BRITISH WORLD AIRLINES (BWA) is now the largest operator of Viscounts, with eight active at the end of 1995. At one stage, BWA and its predecessors operated 18 of the aircraft. Of the eight left, five have been converted to freighters and three soldiers on in passenger guise, ...
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Bombardier expands in Montreal
Brian Dunn/MONTREAL BOMBARDIER HAS opened a training centre in Montreal as part of a strategy to double its annual aerospace sales to C$6 billion ($4 billion) by 2000. Canadian simulator manufacturer CAE Electronics provided two-thirds of the financing for the C$108 million Bombardier Aerospace Training Centre, ...
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Lufthansa and BAe set up joint-venture company
Andrzej Jeziorski/BERLIN LUFTHANSA AND British Aerospace have established a new joint-venture company to run Avro RJ85 regional-jet simulator and classroom training at Lufthansa's Flight Training Centre at Berlin-Schonefeld Airport. The company, established on 12 December as City Line Avro Simulator and Training, will offer training for ...
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FAA proposes to amend commercial-pilot flight hours
NEW FLIGHT, duty and rest rules for commercial pilots have been proposed by the US Federal Aviation Administration in a move to improve aviation safety. The Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) reduces the number of duty hours (the time a flight crewmember is on the job available to ...
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Fair comparisons are needed on Airbus aircraft
Sir - I read the article "Battle of the big twins" (Flight International, 22-28 November, P16), which contains a number of errors and misleading comments. The airliners competing for the 300- to 350-seat market are the Airbus Industrie A330 and A340, the Boeing 777-200A, -200B and -300, ...
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Europe agrees on ground-handling
Julian Moxon/PARIS IN A LANDMARK decision, European transport ministers have agreed to a full liberalisation of the region's airport ground-handling from 1 January 2003. Germany and Austria have refused to sign the agreement, but will still be bound by the decision, which is expected to ...
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The Viscount: still darting about
Harry Hopkins, who flew Vickers Viscounts in the 1960s, renews his acquaintance with one of the last passenger versions. IT WAS ALL THERE, in black and white. The cockpit instruments lacked colour coding, or pastel panels - but then I was going back 30 years. Vickers Viscounts were once flown ...
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GE90 power surge hits 777 ETOPS progress
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES PLANS TO BEGIN extended-range twinjet-operations (ETOPS) tests of the General Electric GE90-powered Boeing 777 have been hit by an incident in which a British Airways aircraft suffered an engine surge during pre-delivery flight tests. Although the engine recovered automatically from the surge, ...
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Muddy end for 747
AN EMPTY CHINA AIRLINES Boeing 747-200 swerved off the runway and crashed at Manila's Ninoy Aquino International Airport on 12 December, during an attempted three-engine take-off. The aircraft, with only the aircrew aboard, was being returned to Taiwan for repairs after earlier hitting a truck when landing, damaging one of ...
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Restructured USAfrica ready for relaunch
USAFRICA AIRWAYS is optimistic that it will be able to restart services early in 1996 following the signing of a marketing pact with Continental Airlines and bankruptcy court approval for a refinancing package. USAfrica began serving South Africa in June 1994 from Washington, but it ceased operations and ...
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JAA may reduce safety margins
David Learmount/LONDON A CRUCIAL European decision on airliner-cabin emergency-exit design, is expected to be announced on 12 December, is set to derail the US/European regulatory-harmonisation process. The European Joint Aviation Authorities (JAA) conclusion, by exploiting a regulatory loophole, may lead to a reduction of safety margins for ...
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It's not where you are, it's who you are
Sir - The article "US airlines move to end passenger-liability limits", (Flight International, 15-21 November, P17) signals a welcome development as the new inter-carrier agreement addresses the long-overdue question of airline liability on a global scale. The new agreement will permit passengers to make unlimited claims under their national law, ...
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Dowty leads wing- technology study
Andrew Doyle/LONDON DOWTY AEROSPACE is leading a 30-month research programme aimed at developing advanced wing technologies for possible incorporation in Airbus aircraft. The £1.5 million ($2.3 million) "advanced high-lift programme" consists of 16 separate projects and is being partially funded by the UK Department of ...
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The dangers of down-wind turns
Sir - Although not always accepted by the flying establishment, the danger of the "down-wind-turn" phenomenon is accepted by pilots of light aircraft and gliders. The effect may be seen, as birds circle in windy conditions, when the rapid loss of height as the bird turns down-wind, becomes obvious. ...
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Cargo expansion
Polar Air Cargo plans to add six Boeing 747-200s to its fleet of 12 747-100 freighters, and is projecting that it will be operating 22-24 aircraft within two years. The Long Beach, California-based carrier operates cargo services to Asia, Australia, Europe, New Zealand and South America. Source: Flight ...
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Northwest crew is punished for Brussels miscue
NORTHWEST AIRLINES has taken stern action against the flight deck crew of a Frankfurt-bound McDonnell Douglas DC-10-40, which landed at Brussels Airport by mistake on 5 September. Northwest has completed its internal probe of the incident, which has resulted in the captain "taking early retirement" the first officer ...
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NZ sidesteps ICAO rules in ATC strike
Paul Phelan/CAIRNSDavid Learmount/LONDON NEW ZEALANDS privatised air-traffic-control (ATC) service sidestepped International Civil Aviation Authority (ICAO) procedures during a 4-6 December controller strike says, the international aviation organisation. The strike, which seriously disrupted domestic and international schedules, was due to be repeated on 12-15 December. The ...
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GA association boosts CRM training
Forbes Mutch/LONDON THE UK GENERAL Aviation Manufacturers and Traders Association (GAMTA), has completed a benchmarking exercise into cockpit/crew-resource-management (CRM) training. The concluding report, published in association with Cranfield University, Bedfordshire, recommends the establishment of a central library of CRM training resources, including videos and other ...
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English speakers must learn anew
Sir - In reply to Eric Mowrey's letter (Flight International, 29 November-5 December, P51), I am an aviation professional and native English speaker, resident and employed abroad. English has become the lingua franca of international aviation, but this does not excuse the attitude that non-native English speakers in ...
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Honeywell wins American deal
AMERICAN AIRLINES HAS selected the Honeywell/ Trimble HT9100 satellite-based navigation system for a fleetwide retrofit of 340 Boeing 727s and McDonnell Douglas DC-10s and MD-80s. The contract, is the first major fleet satellite-navigation avionics contract awarded, since the introduction of the Boeing/Honeywell FANS 1 system and is the ...