All Safety News – Page 1439
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New study identifies high-risk CFIT categories of operation
David Learmount/LONDON An accident involving controlled flight into terrain (CFIT) in instrument meteorological conditions (IMC), is most likely to happen to a single-crew operation in Africa flying a non- precision approach without a ground-proximity warning system (GPWS) says a so-far-unreleased report which quantifies CFIT risks. ...
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CAA licence to overcharge is simply not on
Sir-The three letters on "GAMTA must look at training" (Flight International, 3-9 April, P95) focus on the high costs incurred by aviation businesses in the UK. As a licensed engineer working for a foreign international airline in this country, I am required to hold a licence issued in ...
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-IPTN's N250
-IPTN's N250 will be a winner, if performance figures match the aircraft's characteristics IF THERE IS any lingering cynicism, over the destiny of IPTN's N250 programme, a visit to the company's design, manufacturing and flight-testing site at Bandung, Indonesia, would be likely to put it to rest. The site ...
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Reutlinger lays down cost goal for Sabena
Herman de Wulf/BRUSSELS SABENA PRESIDENT Paul Reutlinger has laid out details of the new cost-cutting targets and fleet rationalisation being demanded by new partner Swissair in a bid to bring the Belgian carrier back to profitability by 1998. Reutlinger says that Sabena needs to shave ...
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Ariane enquiry
The Ariane enquiry board, set-up to determine the cause of the loss of the first Ariane 5 on 4 June (Flight International, 12-18 June, P4), will also investigate qualification and acceptance test procedures and recommend corrective actions. The findings, of the board are expected to be published on 14, July. ...
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Jet plans acquisitions to boost core-business resources
JET AVIATION IS in talks to acquire K-C Aviation's Transportation Services (KCTS) and Jet Professionals subsidiaries. Agreement is expected in the next 60 days, with the two companies about to enter due-diligence investigations. K-C Aviation says that it is selling the transportation-services companies to free up resources to ...
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Cranfield to tackle gas-turbine degradation with new software
CRANFIELD UNIVERSITY of the UK has developed software to help aircraft operators identify factors which cause engine performance to degrade. Called Pythia, the system is designed to build a modular, computerised, model of a gas-turbine engine, using a Windows-based graphical user-interface. The software, then analyses ...
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ValuJet to reduce maintenance contractors
Karen Walker/ATLANTA VALUJET AIRLINES, in response to criticism from the US Federal Aviation Administration is to cut the number of outside maintenance contractors it uses. An interim report, by the FAA on ValuJet's maintenance and safety procedures, highlights discovered since the Atlanta, Georgia-based airline came ...
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FAA tackles runway overruns
A DEVICE DESIGNED to stop runway overruns is to be installed at New York's JFK International Airport following successful testing by the US Federal Aviation Administration. During the tests, which also involved the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey at the agency's Atlantic City technical centre, ...
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R-R plans hybrid -524/Trent test
Guy Norris/LOSANGELES Andrew Doyle/LONDON ROLLS-ROYCE IS preparing to test a production RB.211-524 turbofan fitted with the high-pressure system of the Trent 700, in an experiment aimed at extending engine-component life and reducing fuel consumption. The hybrid is being evaluated as a potential upgrade for the ...
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JADC considers YS-X partners for future
Paul Lewis/TOKYO JAPAN AIRCRAFT Development (JADC), expects to make a decision by August, on whether to continue with a 90 to 110 seat YS-X study with Boeing, or to shrink the project to a 70 to 90 seater, involving Bombardier. JADC has to submit its request ...
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Open skies crucial to BA/American deal
Kevin O'Toole/LONDON NEWS OF THE British Air-ways and American Airlines code-sharing deal and the promise of a US/UK open-skies agreement has sparked off a round of intense lobbying from competitors on both sides of the Atlantic, hoping to make gains from a new bilateral. BA ...
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How HUD works
HUDs present the vital parameters of aircraft position, velocity, demand information and trend cues on a screen suspended from the flight-deck roof between the pilot's eyes and the aircraft windscreen. The pilot looks through this screen (the combiner) to the real world beyond and, as the combiner is collimated (focused ...
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Who's in control
AUSTRALIAN AGRICULTURAL OPERATOR Dan Kennedy, recently returned from a Churchill Fellowship world study on GA safety, believes that insurance payouts of up to A$1 million ($806,500) on turbine agricultural aircraft, more than 60 of which are operated in Australia, may price his industry out of business if accident trends cannot ...
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Quality vs capacity
Paul Phelan/ADELAIDE STUDENT NUMBERS at the Australian Aviation College (AAC) in Adelaide are approaching maximum capacity, but expansion is out of the question, says general manager Harry Bradford. Although the BTR-owned school has over 200 students, it will not expand because quality would suffer, he says. ...
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The tests
SEVERAL OF THE FIVE formats or "batteries" used in RAF pilot-aptitude tests will still be familiar to old hands: ncompensatory tracking and co-ordination: a dot is driven, by stick and rudder pedals, to follow a cross moved to a standard computer-controlled schedule. A relevant civil/transport scenario might be ...
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MD600N lost to blade strike
Graham Warwick/ATLANTA The second McDonnell Douglas Helicopter Systems' (MDHS) MD600N prototype was destroyed by fire on 28 May after a crash-landing during flight-testing. The pilot was uninjured. MDHS says that certification of the eight-seat helicopter, scheduled for September, will be delayed, but believes that first deliveries ...
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UK industry to launch research effort
Kevin O'Toole/LONDON AFTER YEARS of failing to win new Government funding for civil research-and-technology programmes, the UK's aerospace companies have taken matters into their own hands and launched a programme of industry-funded technology-demonstrator pilots. They hope that the UK Government will now help build the project ...
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US NTSB pushes for Sukhoi checks
Checks on the flight controls of Sukhoi Su-29 and Su-31 aerobatic aircraft are being urged after the fatal crash of an Su-29 near New Orleans on 21 March was blamed on an incorrectly assembled elevator-control system. The US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has called on the US Federal Aviation ...
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KLM/Northwest link-up plans put on hold
Kevin O'Toole/AMSTERDAM KLM HAS PUT further development of its alliance with Northwest Airlines on hold until the bitter disagreement over shareholder rights is settled in the US courts. While stressing that the alliance, once "the envy of the airline industry", continues to operate well, KLM president ...