All Ops & safety articles – Page 1442
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PNG begins shut-down of aviation infrastructure
Paul Phelan/CAIRNS PAPUA NEW Guinea has begun the progressive withdrawal of major elements of its aviation infrastructure because of a lack of funding. The closures could eventually result in a complete shut down of the country's airways system and its airports. Air-traffic-control (ATC) services ...
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FAA sets revised rules for ATR flights
Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC THE US FEDERAL Aviation Administration will allow ATR 42s and 72s to be flown in icing conditions as long as pilots, despatchers and air traffic controllers follow new flight-safety and training procedures. The conditions remain in effect until an improved de-icing boot is certificated for ...
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Alitalia pilots to strike over wages
ALITALIA PILOTS planned a . strike on 18 January, in an attempt to apply further pressure on the carrier's management to concede pay increases in return for productivity improvements. The strike threat comes amid talks between Alitalia and its two pilots' unions over the need for major cost-savings ...
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Aerospatiale president attacks FAA
AEROSPATIALE president Louis Gallois has hit out at the US Federal Aviation Administration for its "unique" treatment of ATR following the crash of an American Eagle ATR 72 in Chicago in October 1994. Aerospatiale owns ATR jointly with Italian company Alenia. "It took 32 days for the FAA ...
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Russia steps up action on safety regulations
THE RUSSIAN Government is to hold hearings in February on the creation of a new set of airline regulations aimed at bringing urgent improvements to safety levels among the 410 carriers now operating within the country. Gennady Zaitsev, deputy director of the Russian transport ministry's department of air ...
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Re-engined Il-86s return to agenda
FIVE RUSSIAN airlines have confirmed renewed interest in re-engineing their Ilyushin Il-86s with CFM56 turbofans. According to Il-86 chief designer Igor Katyrev, the five responded to a business proposal from Ilyushin, pointing out the advantages of replacing the Kuznetsov NK-86s with the CFM56s. The Western powerplants, ...
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FAA acts on PW2000 icing in Boeing 757
US OPERATORS of Pratt & Whitney-powered Boeing 757s are being required to perform engine run-ups in cold weather to remove ice which may form in the compressor. The US Federal Aviation Administration has issued an emergency airworthiness-directive (AD) following incidents in which ice broke loose from low-pressure-compressor stators ...
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Grob aims to regain Strato 2C financing
Andrzej Jeziorski/MUNICH GERMAN COMPOSITE-aircraft manufacturer Burkhart Grob is expecting a decision to be taken this month on further Government funding for the Strato 2C high-altitude research aircraft, which has overshot budget estimates. The company says that the programme requires DM30 million ($19.5 million) extra cash from ...
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Flutter heads suspect list in BD-10 crash
FLUTTER IS SUSPECTED as the cause of the in-flight break-up of a Bede Jet BD-10 turbojet-powered light aircraft, which killed the pilot (Flight International, 11-17 January). The aircraft was being used for flutter testing in a programme intended to lead to certification of the BD-10 for production by ...
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Modern-cockpit history
Cathode-ray-tube (CRT) flight-instrument displays and digital-technology flight-management systems arrived in operational airline cockpits only in 1982. Digital fly-by-wire control arrived less than seven years ago, in 1988. Today, however, the instrument displays of the Boeing 767, 757 and Airbus Industrie A310/A300-600 (the order in which the aircraft entered ...
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The numbers game
For the first time in decades, there is an argument over which company sold the most new airliners in 1994. At headline level the dispute is, of course, irrelevant in a business whose time-scales are so long. Underneath, however, the fact that there is an argument at all, suggests that ...
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Duty times are no threat
Sir - In "Duty bound" (Flight International, 14-20 December, 1994, P32) you say that "...IFALPA [International Federation of Airline Pilots' Associations] is convinced that the proposed European rules are dangerous". It is a nonsense for pilot unions to pretend to be prepared to leave decisions to the Aeromedical ...
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Rudder ruled out in Coventry
UK INVESTIGATORS are virtually certain, that control difficulties played no part in the crash of an Air Algerie Boeing 737-200 on approach to Coventry Airport. They have found no evidence of rudder-control malfunction in the 21 December 1994, accident and believe that the aircraft's impact with an electricity ...
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FAA compromises on its regional TCAS I deadline
Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC REGIONAL AIRLINES in the USA are being given until the end of 1995 to fit the traffic-alert and collision-avoidance system (TCAS I) on their aircraft, even though manufacturers are warning that they may struggle to deliver kits in time. The US Federal ...
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Lessons from the cockpit
Airbus has learned a lot about the "glass cockpit", but there is much more to be gleaned. David Learmount/LONDON In little more than a decade, a breathtaking change has taken place in airliner-cockpit design, and in flight management and control technology, but some pilots believe ...
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Broadening horizons
Times are hard at home, so All Nippon Airways is looking abroad for its growth. Kieran Daly/Tokyo and Kansai Throughout the world, governments are cheerfully embracing the concept of instant deregulation of their air-transport services. The consequences of this are sometimes dramatic, frequently unforeseen and, ...
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Avionics sensors certificated
ROCKWELL-Collins Series 900 avionics sensors have been certificated on the Boeing 747-400. Approval on the Boeing 777 is scheduled for April 1995 and certification efforts are under way on the 757 and 767, Collins says. The Series 900 product line covers VHF communication and navigation, high frequency and ...
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US aviators discuss safety in Washington
THE PLANNED two-day US aviation safety summit, called after the fourth major airline crash in recent months, was scheduled to have begun in Washington DC on 9 January. The US Transportation Department says that the meeting, intended for airline executives, safety officials, pilots and aircraft manufacturers, was to ...
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ATR: maybe the FAA got it rightt
Sir - Your article "ATR restricted while FAA examines flight in icing" (Flight International, 16-22 November, 1994, P10) does not mention the opinions of the pilots. Regulatory bodies and aircraft manufacturers seem to favour data from equipment, rather than the opinions of those who fly the aircraft. Perhaps, ...
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ATC Start-Up
Mexico City's air-traffic-control (ATC) centre has been inaugurated. The Thomson-CSF-supplied Eurocat 2000 system is part of a major contract awarded in 1993, under which a further four centres are scheduled to be opened in the next 18 months. The Mexico City system will receive and process data from eight radar, ...