All Ops & safety articles – Page 1416
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Germany reprieves Strato 2C
Andrzej Jeziorski/MUNICH THE GERMAN parliamentary budget committee has conditionally voted to continue funding the Grob Strato 2C high-altitude research aircraft, rejecting research and technology minister Jurgen Ruttgers recommendation that the programme be scrapped and DM72 million ($50 million) of Government funding be returned (Flight International, 24-30 January). ...
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USA reports increase in GA accidents
US GENERAL-AVIATION (GA) accidents increased slightly in 1995, causing concern that efforts to improve safety have reached a plateau. The US National Transportation Safety Board says that there were 408 fatal GA accidents in 1995, compared with 402 in 1994. Safety has been steadily improving since the ...
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UK's Britannia to pioneer Contran to guard against confusion in communications
THE WORLD'S LEADING charter operator, Britannia Airways, is to be the first airline to equip its fleet with the Contran system designed to prevent simultaneous radio transmissions. The UK carrier will fit its 32-strong Boeing 757/767 fleet during the northern winter of 1996/7. At the same time, British ...
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Pan Am plans to rise from the ashes
MARTIN SHUGRUE, the ex-chief operating officer of Pan American World Airways, plans to relaunch the airline. Shugrue and former US Undersecretary of Commerce, for Travel and Tourism Charles Cobb have lined up $30 million in start-up capital from a consortium of investors. The airline, the world's most illustrious ...
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Creating/maintaining APALS databases
BEFORE THE APALS CAN be used, an approach database must be created. This is accomplished by flying the approach with the APALS in data-collecting mode. The radar collects SAR images of the terrain either side of the approach path. These are combined with aerial photographs and ground surveys to identify ...
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Beyond the basics
Aptitude is not enough to win airline sponsorship for today's ab initio pilot-training courses. David Learmount/LONDON IT IS ALREADY axiomatic in the airline industry that today's airline pilots are expected not only to retain traditional piloting and airmanship skills (despite practising them less on the modern flight ...
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Flight Dynamics HGS successful in Cat III
BOMBARDIER DASH 8s of US-based regional carrier Horizon Air, equipped with the Flight Dynamics-made head-up guidance system (HGS), were used for 20 successful landings in Category III conditions at Portland Airport, Oregon, on 11 January. Visibility in the area was down to around 300m (980ft) in thick ...
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Samsung cool on Fokker
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE THE SOUTH KOREAN Government and aerospace industry, are playing down speculation, that they are mounting a serious effort to buy all or part of the financially stricken Fokker group. Officials from the Ministry of Trade, Industry & Energy, as well as industrial giant ...
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UK delays Swanwick opening by one year
THE OPENING OF the new en route air-traffic-control centre for England and Wales has been delayed until December 1997, says the UK Civil Aviation Authority. The £350 million ($530 million) Swanwick Centre, near Fareham, Hampshire, has been plagued by problems with integrating the air-traffic-management system's 2 million lines ...
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FedEx go-ahead
China's civil aviation administration has given FedEx permission to launch its first air-cargo service to Beijing and Shanghai from the USA in early March, using a Boeing 747-200. FedEx is the only US-based cargo carrier allowed to operate into China, having acquired the right from Evergreen. The carrier plans eventually ...
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In-trail-climb testing inadequate
Sir - In the article "New members join in-trail-climb club" (Flight International, 6-12 December, 1995, P16), Ken Peppard of the US Federal Aviation Administration is quoted as saying that "...pilots, controller and ARINC operators feel comfortable with the procedure". The US Airline Pilots' Association (ALPA) believes this to be an ...
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Talk this way
A Swedish-led technology could provide a key element of the Future Air Navigation System. Kieran Daly/LONDON THE GLOBAL-NAVIGATION satellite-system-synchronised, self-organising, time-division, multiple-access (STDMA) data- link really needs a much better name. It is one thing for the dedicated souls serving on the International Civil Aviation ...
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Twenty years young
The Concorde is set to remain in airline service for up to another 20 years. Andrew Doyle/LONDON THE BRITISH AEROSPACE/Aerospatiale Concorde is a unique airliner in many ways, not least because it has been in revenue service for two decades and there is still no new aircraft ...
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Forging ahead
What could possibly go wrong? Most carriers have achieved a remarkable turnaround from the depression of 1990-1. Traffic has rebounded and capacity is under control, leading to healthy load factors and yields. Unit costs have fallen as workforce cuts and productivity improvements have borne fruit, while fuel prices have remained ...
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No state aid means yes
For once the European Commission is to be congratulated on its political juggling over the Spanish request to recapitalise struggling Iberia, although the carrier's continued control of two Latin American carriers has raised a few eyebrows. Avoiding the minefield of the 'one time, last time' tenet of state ...
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Tokyo mixes its approach
No one is more baffled by the Ministry of Transport's plans for a third Tokyo airport than local government and civic leaders. Not that they oppose another airport, but they are wondering whether the MOT has levelled with them, or if it is incapable of following a coherent airport strategy. ...
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Japan boosts Asian unity
Japan's Ministry of Transport has demonstrated the sway it holds in the region by bringing together Asia-Pacific's senior aviation administrators for watershed discussions aimed at forging closer cooperation on air transport policies. At presstime, officials from at least 17 nations in Asia and Oceania were preparing to meet ...
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Asia-Pacific
The Asia-Pacific region continues to maintain its flagship role at the sharp end of global air travel recovery. Double-digit growth is again forecast through 1996, bringing further financial gains for regional operators and benefits for major airlines operating into the area from elsewhere. There will, however, be dramatically ...
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Beaming into new system
Our institute has been conducting extensive research on airline revenue management for the past three years, and parts of your article 'A system approach' (Airline Business, January) seem to be based on false assumptions. Our first concern is the quoted 1 per cent increase in airline revenues. While there is ...
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Unions face Wolf's bite
USAir's surprise appointment of former UAL chief Stephen Wolf to its helm could further exacerbate an already fragile situation with its unions. The new USAir chairman and chief executive, renowned for his hard-line stance towards unions, now faces labour groups deeply mistrustful of management. One labour leader at ...