All Ops & safety articles – Page 1432
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European ministers discuss open skies policy
Julian Moxon/PARIS European transport ministers have reached a tentative agreement to develop a common policy on open skies following the spate of recent agreements between individual countries and the USA. Within a 15-day period, six European Union countries (Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Luxembourg and Sweden) ...
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Taxi Rule Change
The US Federal Aviation Administration has banned the night time practice of allowing aircraft to taxi on to an active runway and hold until cleared for take-off. The "taxi into position and hold" instruction used to speed airport traffic-flows is being prohibited at night following several near misses. ...
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Cathay issues cost warning despite rise profit rise
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE CATHAY PACIFIC Airways has issued further warnings over falling yields and rising costs, despite reporting a 4% increase in net profits for 1994. Profits ended the year broadly in line with analyst expectations at HK$2.4 billion ($310 million), but Cathay chairman Peter Sutch ...
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FAA endorses capsule for child survival
HOOVER INDUSTRIES has won US Federal Aviation Administration approval for its infant and small-child life preserver. The product is thought to be the only one to meet FAA Technical Standing Order C13f requirements. The FAA requires that the upper torso be prevented from coming into contact with water. ...
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Pacific bus stops
Hawaiian operators plan to tap a predicted growth in South Seas tourism. Guy Norris/HONOLULU Hawaiian guitar music wafts across the palm-fringed beach near Waikiki on a balmy afternoon. High overhead, locally based airliners look like partners in paradise as they shuttle to neighbouring islands. ...
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BMA 737: were precautions needed?
Sir - I refer to the report "Oil loss forces down BMA 737" (Flight International, 8-14 March, P16). When I was an apprentice, my airline did not permit scheduled maintenance on more than one engine per aircraft input, even on three-engine types. At another airline, I was not ...
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Human error blamed in An-70 crash
THE UKRAINIAN-LED commission investigating the crash on 10 February of the Antonov An-70 four-prop-fan prototype has ruled that the main cause of the accident was "human error", despite continuing allegations of technical problems with the aircraft. The commission says that the mid-air collision of the An-70 with ...
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Bombardier prepares for Dash 8-400 launch
Lane Wallace/LOS ANGELES BOMBARDIER'S LAUNCH of the de Havilland Dash 8-400 now seems certain as it begins negotiations with potential risk-sharing partners on the 70-seat, high-speed, regional turboprop. Initial letters of intent to purchase the model have been signed and some early delivery positions have ...
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UK investigators query certification of A340
Kieran Daly/LONDON UK ACCIDENT investigators are asking the European Joint Aviation Authorities whether it was aware of "shortcomings" in the Airbus A340's fuel and flight-management systems when the type was certificated. The move follows its investigation of an incident in which an A340 crew suffered ...
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DC-10 record is unblemished
Sir - A Papadakis (Flight International, Letters, 1-7 March, P35) asks why the US Federal Aviation Administration was not as stringent with the McDonnell Douglas DC-10 as he believes it was with the ATR turboprop. The answer is twofold. Firstly, the record of the DC-10 never called for ...
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ERS 1 success story
When the ERS project began, it was seen as providing a remote-sensing satellite to provide systematic, repetitive, global coverage of the ocean, coastal zones and ice caps. It soon took on an "environmental" mantle. The ERS 1 has exceeded its planned operational life by 50% and has acquired, more than ...
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Mustering support
Paul Phelan/CAIRNS On the eve of Australia's 1994 cattle mustering season, 54 helicopter pilots attended a three-day, privately conducted helicopter safety-awareness refresher course. It was one of more than a dozen runs in the past two years, by two highly experienced helicopter pilots, doubling as flight safety ...
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Latavio tries to wreck SAS Latvian venture
Andrzej Jeziorski/MUNICH LATVIAN FLAG CARRIER Latvian Airlines (Latavio) is mounting a last-ditch attempt to sink the proposed joint venture between Baltic International USA (BIUSA) and Scandinavian Airline System (SAS). Latavio is now being backed by the privately owned Banka Baltija - the largest bank in ...
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Lifting the gloom
The mood at GAMTA's annual conference in London was very different to that in 1994. Kieran Daly/LONDON The second half of the 1990s will test Europe's general aviation (GA) operators beyond precedent, but it may also reward them, as never before. What is beyond doubt is that ...
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FTL: the snags with legislation
Sir - The letter from R P Holubowicz "Pilots to influence flight-time limits?" (Flight International, 25-31 January, P52) clearly illustrates the difficulties of trying to legislate in the area of flight-time limits (FTL). FTL should fall into two separate areas. The first is the national, or now-planned, European ...
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French Land Contract
French landing-gear manufacturer and maintenance company Messier-Bugatti has won a contract from Korean Airlines for the general overhaul of landing gear on five Airbus Industrie A300-600 aircraft, representing work on 15 landing-gear legs. The work will be carried out at Messier-Bugatti's Molsheim plant in eastern France, and is expected to ...
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EC tries to close ranks over US open-skies deals
Julian Moxon/PARIS EUROPEAN TRANSPORT ministers will be asked to toe the line on a common "open-skies" policy for the European Union in a crucial meeting to be held in Brussels on 13-14 March. The matter has moved to the top of the agenda as the ...
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Cat III GPS 'feasible', USA will tell ICAO
Kieran Daly/LONDON THE USA IS TO present data to the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) which, it says, demonstrate the feasibility of Category III satellite-navigation precision approaches. US delegates to the key Communications/Operations Divisional meeting (COM-OPS 95), due to take place in Montreal between 27 ...