Flight Safety Information October 16, 2014 - No. 211 In This Issue Passenger On Air France Flight To Madrid Suspected Of Having Ebola Afghanistan Delegates Investigation of 2013 Crash of National Airlines Boeing 747 to NTSB Small jet plane makes emergency belly landing at DIA Frontier places two pilots, four flight attendants on paid leave due to Ebola issue Drone Pilots Beware: New FAA Enforcement Policy Targets You. Licensed Pilots At Particular Risk PRISM TO HELP PREPARE FOR E-IOSA EASA grants ETOPS approval for Airbus A350-900 First Japan Passenger Jet in 4 Decades Rolling Out Analog experience instrumental to pilot safety A3IR CON 2015 Rotorcraft "Moral Courage Safety Award Conference & Survey dedicated to "Present and Future of Civil RPAs"...Paris, November 13-14, 2014 Wanted:...Auxiliary Power Unit (APU) Upcoming Events Passenger On Air France Flight To Madrid Suspected Of Having Ebola MADRID, Oct 16 (Reuters) - Madrid's Barajas international airport activated emergency measures on Thursday after a passenger arriving on an Air France flight was suspected of possibly having Ebola, a spokeswoman for airports operator Aena said. Spain's health ministry confirmed that an Ebola emergency protocol had been set in motion but declined to give details. Aena and Air France said in separate statements that a passenger on Air France 1300 from Lagos via Paris had started shaking during the flight. Air France said the other passengers disembarked from the plane, which will now be disinfected. The return flight has been canceled. Spain's government has stepped up its response to suspected Ebola cases in the wake of a health scare when a nurse in Madrid became the first person outside Africa to become infected with the deadly disease in the current outbreak. The nurse, Teresa Romero, was diagnosed with the virus last week and is still seriously ill but stable. She had cared for two infected priests repatriated from West Africa and who later died. Spanish authorities said on Thursday that a person who had been in contact with Romero and was being monitored remotely for signs of the disease would be hospitalized, after developing a fever, one of the symptoms of Ebola. The person was one of 68 considered to have a low risk of catching Ebola, and who have to check their temperature regularly from home. Another 15 people, including Romero's husband, are still under observation for signs of Ebola in Madrid's Carlos III hospital where she is also being treated, but have shown no symptoms. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/10/16/air-france-ebola_n_5996052.html Back to Top Afghanistan Delegates Investigation of 2013 Crash of National Airlines Boeing 747 to NTSB Camera capture Boeing 747 crash in Bagram - Bagram 747 crash The NTSB will complete the investigation into the April 29, 2013 crash of a National Airlines Boeing 747 at Bagram Air Base, Afghanistan. The cargo flight crashed on takeoff on its way from Bagram to Dubai. All seven crew members were fatally injured and the airplane was destroyed. The investigation is being conducted in accordance with ICAO Annex 13. Initially, the investigation was led by the state of occurrence, the Republic of Afghanistan. The NTSB assisted as the accredited representative of the U.S., the state of manufacturer and the state of the operator. This week, the Afghanistan Civil Aviation Authority delegated the remainder of the investigation to the NTSB, which will include completing the final report. NTSB Acting Chairman Christopher A. Hart has appointed Tim LeBaron as the investigator in charge. www.ntsb.gov Back to Top Small jet plane makes emergency belly landing at DIA Pilot, passengers get out safely after landing DENVER - Authorities say a small jet plane made an emergency belly landing at Denver International Airport on Wednesday afternoon. An FAA spokesman told 7NEWS that the Hawker Beechcraft H25B with three people onboard blew a tire and damaged its hydraulic system on takeoff from Centennial Airport. The twin-engine jet landed safely on Runway 34L at DIA at 3:21 p.m. The aircraft burned off its fuel load prior to the landing at DIA. Airport fire trucks foamed the runway where the plane skidded to a stop. Firefighters extinguished a small fire that had ignited underneath the center of the aircraft after it came to a stop. The jet was in the air for 4 hours and 18 minutes, according to FlightAware.com. The National Transportation Safety Board is leading the investigation into the incident. Although Runway 34L remained closed after the landing, the rest of the airport is open for takeoffs and landings. Aircraft were operating on five of six runways at DIA. The plane is co-owned by Charlie Monfort, partial owner of the Colorado Rockies. Team officials said no one from the Rockies or the Monfort family was on the plane. The plane took off from Centennial Airport at 11:03 a.m. and originally planned to fly to Arnold Palmer Regional Airport, about 33 miles southeast of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, according to its flight plan. FlightAware tracked the jet as it flew to northern Weld County and stayed in a holding pattern for several hours while commercial jets made landings at DIA. Shortly after 3 p.m., the jet turned south toward DIA and skidded to a landing. FLIGHTAWARE LINK: http://flightaware.com/live/flight/N694ES http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/local-news/small-jet-plane-attempting-emergency-landing-at- dia10152014 Back to Top Frontier places two pilots, four flight attendants on paid leave due to Ebola issue Frontier Airlines has placed two pilots and four flight attendants on paid leave for 21 days following the revelation that a passenger was symptomatic with Ebola when she flew on a Frontier flight on Monday. The Denver-based airline said it is going "over and above" guidance from the Centers of Disease Control which stated the crew was safe to fly. Frontier is also keeping the aircraft used on Flight 1143 from Cleveland to Dallas/Fort Worth out of service and is removing all of the seat covers and carpets in the immediate vicinity of the passenger seat. Environmental filters will also be replaced. "These steps were taken out of concern for the safety of our customers and employees," said Frontier chief executive David Siegel in a letter sent to workers late last night. "Steps such as removing the aircraft from service, removing aircraft seat covers and carpet and replacing environmental filters as well as placing the crew on paid leave were not requested nor mandated by the CDC." Frontier said the aircraft is expected to be returned to service in the next few days. http://blogs.star-telegram.com/sky_talk/2014/10/frontier-places-two-pilots-four-flight-attendants-on- paid-leave-due-to-ebola-issue.html#storylink=cpy Back to Top Drone Pilots Beware: New FAA Enforcement Policy Targets You. Licensed Pilots At Particular Risk By John Goglia In a sign that the FAA is intensifying its enforcement focus on drone operators, the FAA issued new guidance (Change 6 to its Compliance and Enforcement Handbook) last week to its inspectors and attorneys applicable to Unmanned Aircraft Systems "in violation of the Federal Aviation Regulations" and Model Aircraft "that endangers the safety of the National Airspace System." According to the FAA, the enforcement bulletin was issued because: "there is an increasing number of UAS operations conducted in the United States that are operated contrary to applicable statutory and regulatory requirements. These operations may create unacceptable levels of safety risk in the National Airspace System (NAS). Based on the FAA's growing concern about the safety of UAS operations in the United States, the FAA will use its resources to educate UAS operators about regulatory compliance and, when appropriate, use administrative and legal enforcement action to gain compliance." The new enforcement guidance outlines the following sanction considerations: Whether the violation was a first-time and inadvertent violation; Whether the violation involves repeated or intentional violations; and Whether the safety risk resulting from the operation in terms of actual or potential endangerment to the NAS was low/medium/high. The FAA's enforcement bulletin states that "a violation that poses a medium actual or potential risk to safety generally warrants a civil penalty in the minimum to moderate range." However, certificated pilots beware, the FAA's guidance has a footnote "a certificate holder should appreciate the potential for endangerment that operating a UAS contrary to the FAA's safety regulations may cause. Accordingly, a violator's status as a certificate holder is an aggravating factor that may warrant a civil penalty above the moderate range for a single, first-time, inadvertent violation." A violation that poses a high actual or potential risk to safety generally warrants a civil penalty in the maximum range and repeated or intentional violations generally warrant a civil penalty in the applicable maximum range. The sanction ranges for individuals acting as pilots or in the capacity of pilots, according to the FAA's sanction guidance table, are as follows: Maximum $850-$1,100 Moderate $650-$849 Minimum $500-$649 However, according to former FAA Regional Counsel, Loretta Alkalay (and my co-professor at Vaughn College of Aeronautics), it's important to note that the "FAA considers each operation a separate violation and any operation could include multiple regulatory violations. So the amount the FAA seeks against an individual for any given flight could be significantly more than the amounts listed here." In addition, drone pilots who hold airmen certificates are at particular risk, especially if they fly manned aircraft for a living. According to the new guidance: "For a deliberate, egregious violation by a certificate holder, regardless of whether the certificate holder is exercising the privileges of the certificate in connection with the violations associated with a UAS operation, certificate action, may be appropriate. Such certificate action may be in addition to a civil penalty." This means that a model aircraft operator may put his professional license at risk - even though no license is required to fly a model aircraft - if the FAA decides that his or her conduct is egregious enough. http://www.forbes.com/sites/johngoglia/2014/10/15/drone-pilots-beware-new-faa-enforcement-policy- targets-you-licensed-pilots-at-particular-risk/ Back to Top Back to Top EASA grants ETOPS approval for Airbus A350-900 The European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) has approved extended operations (ETOPS) for the Airbus A350-900 for beyond 180 minutes diversion time. According to Airbus, the approval also includes provisions for ETOPS 300-minute and ETOPS 370-minute, depending on operator selection. The latter option extends the diversion distance up to 2,500 nautical miles-a distance that corresponds to a maximum ETOPS diversion time for the A350 of approximately 370 minutes, at one-engine-inoperative speed under standard atmospheric conditions, Airbus said in a statement. Airbus said, "A350 operators will thus be able to serve new direct non-limiting routings, compared with a 180-minute ETOPS diversion time: The ETOPS 370-minute option will be of particular benefit for new direct southern routes such as between Australia, South Africa and South America; while the ETOPS 300- minute option will facilitate more efficient transoceanic routes across the North and Mid-Pacific-such as from Southeast Asia to the US, and Australasia to the US. Meanwhile, operators flying on existing routes (currently flown with up to 180-minute diversion time) will be able to traverse a straighter and consequently quicker and more fuel efficient path, and also have access to more-and possibly better equipped-en-route diversion airports, if needed." On Sept. 30, EASA issued a type certificate for the Airbus A350-900, following a certification program that included more than 2,600 hours of flight testing. The certification means the aircraft is now ready for delivery from a safety and environmental point of view. According to Airbus, as of Sept. 30, the A350 XWB had won 750 orders from 39 customers. The much- delayed next-generation aircraft has a target for entry into service in the second-half of 2014. http://atwonline.com/airframes/easa-grants-etops-approval-airbus-a350-900 Back to Top First Japan Passenger Jet in 4 Decades Rolling Out In this June 26, 2014 photo, Mitsubishi's new regional jet MRJ is at the company's Komaki south plant in Komaki, central Japan. The first made in Japan passenger jet in four decades reaches a development milestone later this week. (AP Photo/Mitsubishi Aircraft Corp) The Associated Press The first made in Japan passenger jet in four decades reaches a development milestone later this week. A "rolling out" ceremony in Nagoya, central Japan on Saturday will unveil the long awaited Mitsubishi Regional Jet, or MRJ, a fuel-efficient lightweight carbon-fiber composite passenger plane. Major Japanese machinery maker Mitsubishi Heavy Industries says the MRJ90 will seat 88 people, while the MRJ70 will seat 76, and the planned MRJ100X will have 100 seats. The plane is billed as fuel-efficient, quiet and green, with a comfortable cabin of relatively wide seats and high ceilings. The first flight is planned for the second quarter of next year, with test flights to follow totaling 2,500 hours, and the first deliveries are set for 2017. MRJ has received 191 orders, from All Nippon Airways, Trans State Holdings, SkyWest, Air Mandalay and Eastern Air Line with 184 additional purchase options. Japan Airlines announced in August it will buy 32 of the jets, with deliveries set for 2021, although the final deal has not yet been inked. The MRJ is Japan's first nationally funded, domestically manufactured passenger aircraft since the YS-11, a turboprop airplane that was discontinued in 1973. Mitsubishi has struggled to obtain orders, and initially attracted almost no interest even though it approached dozens of potential customers. The regional-jet industry targets mostly North American and European markets, and is expected to be lucrative. But competition is intense, including from the Embraer E-Jet family and CRJ700 and CRJ900 from Bombardier, as well as newcomers. More than 5,000 deliveries of regional jets are expected over the next 20 years, according to Mitsubishi, whose aircraft division is called Mitsubishi Aircraft Corp. Japan's regional rival China has two commercial jet aircraft projects underway, the first of which, the ARJ21, is now ready for delivery, according to manufacturer Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China, also known as Comac. The plane, with room for up to 90 passengers, had been promised for 2007, but technical problems led to years of delay. Comac's larger single-aisle C919 is even more ambitious, intended to compete with Boeing's 737 and the Airbus A320, with room for as many as 168 passengers and a range of up to 5,100 kilometers (3,200 miles). The plane's official delivery date hasn't been announced. Mitsubishi and other Japanese manufacturers are longtime partners with U.S. airplane maker Boeing Co., and made main components for the 787 Dreamliner. But having a home grown jet is a source of pride in Japan, whose prized aircraft creations have included the wartime Zero fighter. Major automaker Honda Motor Co. is planning its own jet, the HondaJet, its first foray into aeronautics, although it's much smaller, seating only several passengers. A production model went on display earlier this year, and it's aiming to go into service next year. The MRJ engine is supplied by Pratt & Whitney, a unit of United Technologies. http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/japan-passenger-jet-decades-rolling-26230779 Back to Top Analog experience instrumental to pilot safety PhD student Sravan Pingali in a flight simulator with David Newman, head of Swinburne's Aviation Simulation Laboratory. Source: Supplied INITIAL results into a study into the way pilots look at digital and analog instruments suggest experienced pilots facing an emergency will spend twice as much time looking at their instruments as novices. The study by PhD student Sravan Pingali is testing volunteers in Swinburne University of Technology's flight simulators to see how pilots cope with the switch between digital and analog cockpits. The results will be presented to the Aerospace Medical Association conference in Orlando, Florida, in May and the head of Swinburne's Aviation Simulation Laboratory, David Newman, hopes it will produce recommendations for improved pilot training globally. There is evidence pilots who have trained on analog instruments generally find it easier to move to a digital cockpit than vice versa. According to Dr Newman, this is because pilots using older instruments scan them constantly in a highly disciplined sequence to create a picture of what an aircraft is doing and constantly updating it. By contrast, modern digital readouts do much of the computing for pilots and displays it on one or two main screens. "In recent years a lot of our students have done a lot of training in a digital cockpit, a Cessna 172 or whatever, but their first job on graduating with their CPL might be flying an older plane with an analog cockpit,'' he said. "If you've flown digital you get very used to that very quickly. So we think, and the industry has seen some evidence of this, that people who digitally trained going back to fly an analog cockpit will find it harder to do that than if you go from analog to digital. "So ultimately, with that in mind, what we're looking at is if there are differences between pilots who have trained on analog or trained on digital, when they're presented with an analog or a digital cockpit.'' The research is looking at various scenarios: daytime visual flight rules with emergencies and unusual attitudes and then repeating that under instrument conditions. It is extending it to look at helicopters and is looking at how experienced pilots work compared to novices. Initial results suggest experienced pilots manage an emergency or an unusual attitude quite differently from novice pilots in terms of what they look at and what percentage of time they look at instruments or outside the cockpit. "We discovered the more experienced pilots will look inside at the instruments basically twice as much as a novice pilot,'' Dr Newman said. "The experienced pilot seems to know that in an unusual attitude you go straight to instruments and make them read straight and level and you're OK. "Whereas the novice pilots tend to look outside a lot to work out what's going on which is not as helpful.'' Subjects wear sophisticated head-mounted eye-tracking technology, which enables the researchers to map which instruments they are using. "It's that accurate that we can work out whether they're looking at the vertical speed or the airspeed ... and we can see their eyes jumping back and forth,'' Dr Newman said. One thing the study is not designed to do is to answer the longstanding debate about simulator training versus other types of training. "We're just interested in how pilots manage the information flow from the cockpit they're presented with based on their experience and what they've learnt,'' he said. "And as we understand that more that might help us work out better ways to train people.'' The study could also lead to better designed instruments, although Dr Newman said it was too early to say whether this would be the case. http://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/aviation/analog-experience-instrumental-to-pilot-safety/story- e6frg95x-1227092966061?nk=6b09a32bdbca77ea67864456fe62e6a1 Back to Top A3IR CON 2015 Aviation / Aeronautics / Aerospace International Research Conference What's Next? Critical Issues for the Future of Aviation, Aeronautics & Aerospace Abstract submission deadline: October 14, 2014, midnight PDT. The 2015 conference will address the following key focal areas: * Global Security, Cyber Intelligence & Aviation Safety * Unmanned Aerial Systems & UAVs - Privacy and Security, National Airspace System Integration * Commercial Space Flight Systems, Operations and Safety * Human Factors, CRM & Aviation Psychology * Systems Safety including Fire, Law Enforcement, Emergency Response * Accident Investigation * Maintenance, Fractional Ownership & Business, Corporate and General Aviation * Other critical areas - submissions on all aviation/aerospace/aeronautics related topics will be considered for presentation. . Click to submit your abstract now! Program Questions? Contact Dawn Marcuse marcused@erau.edu Sponsorship Questions? Contact Merrie Heath merrie.heath@erau.edu Join us in Phoenix, AZ January 16-17, 2015 STAY CONNECTED Forward this email This email was sent to curt@curt-lewis.com by marcused@erau.edu | Update Profile/Email Address | Rapid removal with SafeUnsubscribe™ | Privacy Policy. Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University | 3700 Willow Creek Road | Prescott | AZ | 86301-3720 Back To Top BacktoTop Conference & Survey dedicated to "Present and Future of Civil RPAs" Paris, November 13-14, 2014 RPAS (Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems) are one of the most dynamic areas in civil aviation today. The number of operators is growing rapidly in Europe (over 1500 in mid 2014). Faced with this challenge, the Air and Space Academy (AAE) and the French Aerospace Society (3AF) are holding a conference in Paris on the 13th and 14th of November to bring together key actors of this young aeronautic sector. Users, manufacturers, operators, research organisations, public services, authorities will meet together to identify safety issues, barriers and solutions as well as actions required to enable this young aeronautics sector to develop in a harmonious way. Ahead of the conference, you may share your views, expertise and experience by clicking on this survey link http://www.academie-air-espace.com/RPAS/poll.php?langue=uk to fill in the questionnaire of approximately 15 mn. You can find more information on the conference itself by clicking on and/or by sending your comments to the following address: sondage.drones@colloqueaae.com Back to Top Wanted: Auxiliary Power Unit (APU) Part Number: P/No. APS 2000; Fresh OH/SV Contact: curt@curt-lewis.com Back to Top Upcoming Events: IASS 2014 Abu Dhabi, UAE November 11-13, 2014 http://flightsafety.org/meeting/iass-2014 ERAU SMS Seminars Daytona Beach, FL Nov. 17-18 & 19-21, 2014 www.erau.edu/sms ICAEA-ANAC-CIPE Aviation English Workshop. Buenos Aires, Argentina. International Civil Aviation English Association Workshop, hosted by Argentina ANAC and CIPE. "Skills and competencies needed in aviation communications: The Latin American Challenge." Open to anyone interested in aviation English. Nov. 20-21, 2014. www.icaea.aero 2014 Global FOD Prevention Conference Birds, Bolts, Budgets - Tracking the Dangers of Foreign Objects and What We Can Do About It Reagan National Airport 2 December 2014 www.stopfod.com ERAU UAS FUNDAMENTALS COURSE December 9 - 11, 2014 ERAU Daytona Beach Campus, FL www.daytonabeach.erau.edu/uas A3IR CON 2015 January 16-17, 2015 Phoenix, AZ http://commons.erau.edu/aircon/2015/ Air Charter Safety Foundation (ACSF) NTSB Training Center, Ashburn, VA March 10-11, 2015 www.acsf.aero/symposium FAA Helicopter Safety Effort three-day safety forum April 21-23, 2015 Hurst, Texas eugene.trainor@faa.gov www.faahelisafety.org Curt Lewis