Flight Safety Information December 24, 2014 - No. 259 In This Issue FAA rules alone won't prevent a drone-jet collision Southwest Jet Loses Wingtip in Airport Brush Up FAA penalties vary for pilots who don't report drunken driving arrests How Cockpit Computers Prejudice Pilots' Performance Nut Rage Executive at Korean Air to Be Arrested for Safety Violations Eight aircraft struck by birds at Greater Manchester airports over 12 months (U.K.) India's Aviation Safety Mechanism Likely To Remain Downgraded Moldova CAA and EASA Align to Improve Aviation Safety Standards PRISM TO HELP PREPARE FOR E-IOSA Boeing, Kuwait Airways finalize $3.3 billion jet order Air China buys 60 Boeing aircraft for $6bn World's largest solar farm complete at Indianapolis airport ERAU NextGen 101 Seminar - Washington, D.C. Upcoming Events FAA rules alone won't prevent a drone-jet collision Quadcopter drone One of the hottest-selling toys this holiday season has been a quadcopter drone, a lightweight craft. The FAA is trying to develop rules that will allow commercially flown drones as heavy as 55 pounds to share airspace with airplanes. (Terrence Antonio James, Chicago Tribune) By Robert P. Mark Air Transportation Disasters Air Transportation Industry Air Transportation Federal Aviation Administration US Airways Anyone can purchase a drone and begin flying immediately. And that's dangerous. Drones near airports and no training for operators: What could go wrong? The FAA is trying to develop rules that will allow 55-pound drones to share airspace with passenger planes: This holiday season, one of the hottest-selling toys has been the quadcopter drone, a tiny remote-controlled helicopter that carries a small video camera anyplace the ground-based operator sends it. While some of these brightly colored quads weigh less than a pound, they can still deliver a pedestrian a pretty ugly whack in the side of the head if the operator loses control. Imagine for a moment, though, that the drone is larger, say a machine that weighs as much as 55 pounds. And imagine that instead of colliding with a pedestrian that 55-pound drone finds its way into the engine or windshield of a commercial airliner. Santa delivering drones for Christmas amid rising safety concern Remember the Canada geese that were sucked into the engines of that US Airways airplane in 2009 shortly after takeoff from LaGuardia Airport? Those geese that forced pilots Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger and Jeffrey Skiles to put their airplane down in the Hudson River weighed only 9 to 12 pounds each. Right now, the Federal Aviation Administration is trying to develop rules that will allow commercially flown drones as heavy as 55 pounds to share the same airspace as airplanes carrying people. This is a really bad idea, despite the fact that the FAA plans to restrict drones to altitudes less than 400 feet above the ground. Drones are drawing so much attention these days because they represent commercial opportunities unmatchable by manned airplanes and helicopters. Law enforcement drones can stay aloft for 24 hours at a time because their computerized pilots don't need a lunch break. Search-and-rescue drones can be dispatched in weather conditions that would keep manned aircraft grounded. A recent AP poll, however, indicated that Americans are concerned about their safety when drones are nearby - and with good reason. Today there is no way to prevent drones from colliding with airplanes - despite the fact that modern jets are equipped with electronic systems that notify pilots when another aircraft wanders too close. Those aircraft systems can't see drones. Technologists say that a "sense-and-avoid" system to make drones move out of the way of an approaching airplane is years from a practical rollout too. But the FAA is under tremendous pressure right now from drone manufacturers, as well as businesses that want to operate them, to do something - anything - that will allow drones access to civil airspace. Until the FAA figures out how to keep drones away from airplanes full of people, though, commercial drones are banned from the skies over the U.S. Unfortunately, the lack of rules or FAA enforcement hasn't stopped hundreds of drone pilots from recklessly flying their machines anyway, often incredibly close to airports and aircraft full of people. Anyone can purchase a drone and begin flying immediately. Drone operators don't need a license, nor are they required to possess any understanding of the national airspace system they're operating within - the same airspace where passenger-carrying aircraft are flying. Drones used to capture high school football action A month ago the FAA released a report highlighting nearly 200 separate safety incidents involving drones; while not all were potentially catastrophic, there were plenty of instances when drone operators either intentionally flew their machines close to airports and manned aircraft - or when drones got away from their operators and flew off for parts unknown, with no person controlling them. In November, the pilots of two separate airliners, a Boeing 747 and a smaller Boeing 737, both on approach to New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport, reported close calls with drones while flying over Nassau County, N.Y. Luckily the drones missed the airliners, but that cute little toy was reportedly cruising at 3,000 feet above the ground when the 747 went sailing past, traveling in the other direction. While the FAA plans to release draft regulation about drones soon, rules alone will not prevent a midair collision. The only chance passengers have is to hope the FAA can demand enough training for drone operators before their drones take flight - enough to make those operators realize the risk they pose to everyone flying around them. But without a training requirement for drone operators, as well as an FAA rule with enough teeth to make reckless operators realize the risks they're putting the rest of us in, airline passengers will soon have a much greater chance of being knocked out of the sky by a drone than by a flock of passing geese. Robert Mark is a commercial pilot and publisher of the aviation blog Jetwhine.com. He lives in Evanston. http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/commentary/ct-drones-airplane-laguardia-jfk- airspace-faa-sullenberger-perspec-1225-jm-20141223-story.html Back to Top Southwest Jet Loses Wingtip in Airport Brush Up NEW YORK - Some Christmas fliers got their wings clipped ? literally. Two jets at New York's LaGuardia Airport got a little too close for comfort Tuesday morning, with one ripping the wingtip off the other. No passengers on either plane were injured. American Airlines Flight 1104 from Dallas was taxiing to its gate just before 11 a.m. as Southwest Airlines Flight 449 to Denver was departing. The left winglet ? a vertical fin at the tip of a wing designed to improve airflow and fuel efficiency ? was ripped off the Southwest plane after it made contact with the American jet's left horizontal stabilizer, part of the tail. Both planes were Boeing 737s. American spokesman Joshua Freed said in an email that the airline's plane "was taxiing with the help of ground personnel walking near each wingtip." Southwest refused to say if the airline also had workers on the tarmac assisting its pilots, or if that was required by company policy. Its flight left the gate 23 minutes late and there was a light rain at the time of the accident. The 143 Southwest passengers and five crew members exited the jet via stairs and were then taken by bus off the tarmac. The aircraft was taken out of service for inspection and repairs. Southwest is finding alternative ways to get the passengers to their destination, according to spokesman Brad Hawkins. The American plane, with 143 passengers and six crew members, made it to gate D7 and passengers left the aircraft via the jet bridge. The plane will be kept in New York overnight for inspection. A replacement jet was used to make the trip back to Dallas, a flight that was delayed about three hours. The Southwest jet moved out of the taxiway on its own power, according to Ron Marsico, a spokesman for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which runs the airport. Marsico said there are no other delays because of this accident and that the Federal Aviation Administration is investigating. http://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory/southwest-jet-loses-wingtip-airport-brush- 27792364 Back to Top FAA penalties vary for pilots who don't report drunken driving arrests SAFETY CONCERNS: Air traffic controllers were among the flight industry workers who failed alcohol screenings conducted by the FAA over a five-year period. Pilots caught breaking federal rules by failing to report off-duty drunken driving arrests and convictions have largely received warnings, fines and short suspensions for the motor vehicle offenses, according to documents obtained by the Herald. Airline transport pilots - the license held by the vast majority of those in the cockpits of commercial airline jets - were cited in 137 cases for failing to report driver's license suspensions and convictions stemming from drunken driving stops from Jan. 1, 2009, to July 22, 2014, according to the Federal Aviation Administration. Pilots are required to report any drunken driving arrests and convictions to the FAA, according to federal rules. But only 21 of those 137 cases resulted in the FAA revoking a pilot's license to fly. In 48 cases, pilots received warnings. Pilots received fines ranging from $100 to $1,750 in 28 cases, while the FAA handed down suspensions in 39 cases in which pilots failed to report a DUI. The majority of those suspensions sidelined the pilots for 60 days or less. In one case no action was taken against the pilot, records show. But there's no way of telling if the cited pilots were working for airlines at the time of the drunken driving busts or whether they are still flying commercial planes, because FAA officials redacted the names and airline employers in the database obtained by the Herald through a public records request. FAA officials said pilots must pass periodic medical examinations, and pilots' names are routinely matched against data in the National Driver Registry. Pilots with more than one DUI offense must undergo a substance abuse evaluation, according to the agency. https://www.bostonherald.com/ Back to Top How Cockpit Computers Prejudice Pilots' Performance (Inside Science) - The increasing amount of automation in airliners' cockpits has simplified the job of piloting. Automatic systems are particularly desirable during long cruise phases at steady speeds and altitudes. But they may have a dark side. A new study indicates that pilots who rely too much on cockpit automation can lose the critical thinking skills that make them able to adapt to unexpected situations. "Automation has created new opportunities for mistakes to be made, by pilots who don't understand what the machine is doing and are not necessarily paying attention," said Stephen Casner, a research psychologist at NASA's Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, California, who headed the project. The study differentiates between the manual skills that pilots use to operate airplanes' controls and cognitive abilities that they need for such tasks as troubleshooting and maintaining awareness of their planes' position. "Hand-eye skills are implicit skills that we learn by simply doing them over and over - the no- brainers like tying shoes or riding a bike; once you learn them well they tend to stick around," Casner said. "Cognitive skill requires you to stop and think about the situation and your prior experiences; it's more cerebral." Casner's team reports its conclusion in the journal Human Factors. To explore the difficulty, Casner's team recruited 16 airline pilots to fly routine and non- routine flights in a Boeing 747-400 simulator. During their "flights," testers seated behind them varied the level of automation in the cockpit, introduced failures into the aircraft systems, and graded their performances. And every two minutes the testers asked the pilots what they were thinking about. Pilots responded by indicating that their thoughts did or did not involve the task at hand. Changes in the level of automation included turning off the autopilot, which forced the pilots to obey the computer's instructions; turning off the flight director, leaving pilots to determine their directions from readings on their instruments; and shutting off everything. That last action required flight crews to keep in their heads the picture of where they were, where they were going, and where they should be going. "You have to build that picture, rely on it, and update it," Casner said. "That's flat-out intellectual work. That's where we saw more significant problems that worried us and need to be addressed." "While pilots' instrument scanning and aircraft control skills are reasonably well retained when automation is used, the retention of cognitive skills needed for manual flying may depend on the degree to which pilots remain actively engaged in supervising the automation," the team states in its paper. "When things go to plan, pilots get invited into the lull - thinking about other things, staring at a piece of automation that's doing just fine," Casner explained. "So what happens when a situation arises that the automation cannot deal with? Computers may have some sort of plan that the pilot may not fully understand. The more capable the automation gets, the worse the problem gets, as the pilot is pushed farther and farther away from it." "The study and conclusion make sense," said John Hansman, director of the MIT International Center for Air Transportation. Modern airliner cockpits bristle with automation. "We have support in planning the flight, an autopilot system to follow the route, systems that warn us about any kind of component failures, traffic, terrain, and support for pretty much everything there is," Casner said. In theory, an airplane can fly itself from one airport to another. But because of the volume of flights around typical airports, the original flight plan must change as the plane nears its destination. That's when pilots need to understand what the automated system is doing. "We have this odd paradox that this system, designed to make it easier for us, bizarrely makes it harder, as we program and reprogram the computer," Casner said. Pilots' reactions to the failures that the testers introduced during the study showed that pattern. "We really just did pretty simple failures, such as air speed, altimeter, and heading indicator. We wanted to look at their process - how they reacted to something that didn't look right," Casner said. "Pilots had pretty good awareness of problems, but their [troubleshooting] process was not so good. We're not really teaching how to plan for investigating and troubleshooting." Hansman applauded the study. "Its quality is good for this type of operational human-in-the- loop experiment," he said. "It is very expensive and difficult to run high-fidelity simulator studies, so it is common to have to use a relatively small study pool. The use of 16 pilots in this group is reasonable." To overcome the erosion of cognitive skills, Casner's team recommends additional practice, during actual flights or on simulators. Another possibility is teaching active monitoring of cockpit automation during long flights. Indeed, some airlines now encourage their pilots to turn off the autopilot and other automation systems occasionally. "To keep these reasoning, thinking, and troubleshooting skills, we have to practice them," Casner said. "It's use it or lose it." Meanwhile, his team is extending its studies from air to land. "We're now looking into automobile driving as cars get more automated," he said. A former science editor of Newsweek, Peter Gwynne is a freelance science writer based in Sandwich, Massachusetts. http://www.insidescience.org/content/how-cockpit-computers-prejudice-pilots%E2%80%99- performance/2446 Back to Top Nut Rage Executive at Korean Air to Be Arrested for Safety Violations Although we love seeing an executive punished and publicly ridiculed even more than the next guy, we have a strong sense that this wouldn't be happening if this was a male exec. Cho Hyun-ah, who was head of cabin service at Korean Air and the oldest child of Korean Air chairman Cho Yang-ho, speaks to the media upon her arrival for questioning at the Aviation and Railway Accident Investigation Board office of Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport in Seoul, South Korea, Friday, Dec. 12, 2014. The chairman of Korean Air Lines Co. apologized Friday for the behavior of his adult daughter who delayed a flight in an incident now dubbed "nut rage." Lee Jin-man / Associated Press South Korea's prosecutors plan to seek an arrest warrant for a former vice president of Korean Air Lines Co. after she forced an employee to deplane over the service of macadamia nuts, Yonhap News said. The warrant will be sought tomorrow for violating aviation safety regulations, including change of flight plan, the news agency reported, citing the prosecutors. Heather Cho, daughter of Korean Air's chairman, will appear before a judge for the review of the warrant application for warrant early next week, the report said. Phone calls to the prosecutors' office weren't answered. Heather Cho ordered the head of the service crew on Flight 86 from New York to Seoul to deplane on Dec. 5 after an attendant earlier had served her macadamia nuts without asking, the carrier said Dec. 8. Cho then summoned the purser to ask a question about the airline's policy on serving nuts. She ordered the plane back to the gate and instructed the man to leave the plane when he couldn't answer. The aircraft had already left the gate at John F. Kennedy International Airport for takeoff when the incident happened. It took no more than 2 minutes to return to the gate to deplane the crew member, according to the airline. The flight was 11 minutes late when it arrived in Seoul Dec. 6. Heather Cho, who was flying in first class, resigned from all of her positions at Korean Air and other affiliates after the incident created public backlash. Cho Yang Ho, chairman of Korean Air, apologized to the public. Prosecutors also plan to seek an arrest warrant for a Korean Air executive it didn't name for allegedly destroying evidence related to the incident, Yonhap said. http://skift.com/2014/12/24/nut-rage-executive-at-korean-air-to-be-arrested-for-safety- violations/ Back to Top Eight aircraft struck by birds at Greater Manchester airports over 12 months (U.K.) Birds disrupted flights on five occasions at Manchester International and on three occasions at City Airport (Manchester Barton) last year Is it a bird? Is it a plane? Well, it was both on the eight occasions in 2013 that birds hit flights at airports in Greater Manchester. According to data released by the Civil Aviation Authority, birds disrupted flights on five occasions at Manchester International and on three occasions at City Airport (Manchester Barton) last year. These instances include one on July 27 when the cabin crew of a Boeing aircraft on the approach to Manchester International noticed a strong burning smell coming from the plane. A bird in question had been sucked into one of the main engines causing this smell. The plane landed safely. On March 24, an Airbus plane had to abort its take-off from Manchester International after a medium-sized bird flew very close to the right side of the plane. Date Airport Type of plane Description 24 March 2013 Manchester Intl Airbus Rejected take-off due to birdstrike. No damage reported. 19 May 2013 Manchester Barton Eurocopter Birdstrike to lower windscreen. No damage found. 8 June 2013 Manchester Barton Evektor Aerotec Birdstrike on take-off. No damage reported. 6 July 2013 Manchester Barton Cyclone Airsport Aircraft returned following birdstrike. 24 July 2013 Manchester Intl De Havilland Birdstrike shortly after take-off. Damage to wing leading edge inboard of LH nacelle. 27 July 2013 Manchester Intl Boeing Birdstrike during final approach. The bird had been ingested into nr1 engine. 13 August 2013 Manchester Intl Airbus Rejected take-off due to birdstrike. Nr2 engine fan blade severely dented. 10 October 2013 Manchester Intl Embraer Birdstrike with damage. The Civil Aviation Authority recorded 208 instances of birdstrikes in 2013, affecting UK flights and occurring at airports of various different sizes. Some incidents caused a lot of obvious damage to aircraft including one instance at Newcastle Airport where a passenger reported seeing smoke and a possible fire from the left hand engine of the plane. A small flock of birds had taken off as the plane set off and one of them were thought to have been sucked into the engine. The plane issued a MAYDAY call and returned to land back at Newcastle. However, there are some examples of birdstrikes where the collision goes unnoticed by crew or passengers and is only discovered upon post-flight inspection. Birds of all shapes and sizes were involved in the incidents including buzzards, wood pigeons, gulls and swallows. Some collisions occurred mid-flight at heights of thousands of feet in the air while others occurred on the ground and prevented the aircraft from taking off. On one occasion at Kirkwall airfield on the Orkney Isles a single gull held up the take-off of a plane when it stood in the runway and refused to move despite the plane speeding towards it at around 100 miles per hour. In this particular game of chicken the gull won and the plane had to brake and taxi back to the airport before taking off again. July was the most common time of year for a birdstrike with 33 of the 208 collisions occurring during that month. May was the second most common with 27 while August came third with 25. February was the least likely month for a birdstrike to occur with only five instances recorded in that month. Heathrow had more bird collisions than any other airport with 18 while the most common type of plane to be involved in a birdstrike was an Airbus with 74 in 2013. http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/eight-aircraft- struck-birds-greater-8340588 Back to Top India's Aviation Safety Mechanism Likely To Remain Downgraded NEW DELHI: Country's aviation safety mechanism is likely to remain downgraded till March next year with the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) finding deficiencies on eight counts, it was officially stated. The American aviation regulator, which conducted a fresh safety audit of DGCA (Directorate General of Civil Aviation) from December eight, is likely to determine India's safety rating in March 2015, almost a year after downgrading it from the top Category-I to Category-II. The FAA team carried out a "full audit" to ascertain country's compliance of international aviation safety standards by focussing on "eight critical elements", Minister of State for Civil Aviation Mahesh Sharma said. The elements cover a gamut of activities including those relating to legislation, regulations, technical personnel, training, licencing, certification, surveillance obligations, which are critical for aviation safety oversight functions, he said in reply to a question in Rajya Sabha. FAA would provide a written report within about 65 days and hold a consultation meeting in another 30 days, which would tentatively be in the middle of February, he said. "Based on the outcome of final decision, FAA will make a Category determination and inform India by about March 2015," the Minister said. FAA had conducted two safety audits in September and December last year, after which it had downgraded country's aviation safety mechanism to Category-II on January 31, this year. The downgrade means that India's safety oversight system does not meet the minimum standards laid down by the UN body International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO). Due to the downgrade, Indian airlines - Air India and Jet Airways, which are the only ones flying to the U.S, would not be able to expand their flights to that country or tie-up with any American carrier for expansion of operations. The flights of these Indian carriers are also subject to additional safety checks at U.S. airports. http://www.siliconindia.com/news/business/Indias-Aviation-Safety-Mechanism-Likely-To- Remain-Downgraded-nid-176570-cid-3.html Back to Top Moldova CAA and EASA Align to Improve Aviation Safety Standards [Avionics Today 12-12-2014] The Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) of the Republic of Moldova (RM) has become the first institution of civil aviation from the European Union neighborhood countries to sign the new type of working arrangement with the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA). The agreement aims to align the two agencies to improve the standards of aviation safety, as outlined in the Common Aviation Area Agreement signed by Moldova and the EU and its member states in 2012. A relevant European body will monitor Moldova to follow the progress of implementation of European standards in civil aviation. EASA urges that cooperation in this regard will not generalize additional costs for Moldova or CAA RM. Moreover, CAA RM will likely benefit from new opportunities in collaboration with EASA, including involvement in the activities of working groups within this European institution. http://www.aviationtoday.com/av/topstories/Moldova-CAA-and-EASA-Align-to-Improve- Aviation-Safety-Standards_83715.html#.VJrAFV4AAA Back to Top Back to Top Boeing, Kuwait Airways finalize $3.3 billion jet order Boeing Co. and Kuwait Airways have finalized an order for 10 jets, a deal valued at $3.3 billion based on list prices. Kuwait Airways ordered 10 777-300ERs, which can carry 386 passengers and fly up to 7,825 miles nonstop. The tentative order was announced in November. "Kuwait Airways has plans to renew its fleet as well as expand its operations and the 777- 300ER is a perfect airplane for our strategy," Rasha Al Roumi, Kuwait Airways CEO, said in a news release. Ray Conner, president and CEO of Boeing Commercial Airplanes, said the aerospace industry in the Middle East "continues to enjoy a phenomenal growth and we are proud to be part of that growth." http://chicago.suntimes.com/business/7/71/229450/boeing-kuwait-airways-finalized-3-3- billion-jet-order Back to Top Air China buys 60 Boeing aircraft for $6bn Air China Boeing 737 preparing to land at Beijing Capital International airport Air China has inked a deal valued over $6bn (£3.8bn) with US planemaker Boeing China's national airline, Air China, is to buy 60 Boeing 737 aircraft in a deal worth more than $6bn (£3.8bn) at list prices. The aircraft will be delivered between 2016 and 2020, according to a regulatory filing by the airline. The deal includes Boeing's "next generation" 737 and 737 MAX aircraft, known for their fuel efficiency. In September, the world's biggest aircraft maker delivered the first of its seven 747-8 aircraft to Air China. "We are excited to see that the 737 family will play a significant role in Air China's continued success," said Ihssane Mounir, Boeing's Northeast Asia vice president of sales and marketing in a statement. In October, rival Airbus announced plans to open a second manufacturing plant in China in an attempt to boost sales of its A330 jetliner in the world's fastest growing aviation market. Boeing, meanwhile, said in September that China would need more than 6,000 aircraft in the next 20 years as the leisure travel market booms in the world's second largest economy. http://www.bbc.com/news/business-30584648 Back to Top World's largest solar farm complete at Indianapolis airport The world's largest airport solar farm is now up and running at Indianapolis International Airport. With the second phase of an expansion now complete, the solar farm more than doubled in size and boasts 76,000 photovoltaic solar panels, according to a news release. The second phase of the project added 32,100 sun-tracking panels that will produce more than 15.2 million kilowatt hours of electricity annually, the release states. The 75-acre facility at the airport before the expansion already was the largest airport solar farm in the nation. "The airport could not be more thrilled to have the largest airport-based solar farm right here in our growing city of Indianapolis," Mario Rodriguez, executive director of the Indianapolis Airport Authority, said in prepared remarks. "The Solar Farm not only enhances our environmentally friendly and energy-efficient terminal campus, but also played a huge role in our recent recognition of being named one of America's greenest airports." The expanded portion of the solar farm creates enough energy to power more than 1,410 average American homes for a year, the release states. Indianapolis Power & Light Co. buys the solar farm's power, which costs three to four times the price for which IPL can sell it, officials have said. The utility has subsidized the difference by raising rates to its customers. The increase in electric bills to subsidize the solar farm amounts to several cents a month on the average customer bill. Solar farms also benefit from federal tax credits. The solar farm has required about a dozen employees to operate. It is owned and operated by a Taiwanese company, General Energy Solutions, which has U.S. offices in California. "It is an iconic structure that symbolizes how renewable energy in this country is affordable and reliable," Kurt Schneider, vice president of Johnson Melloh Solutions, said in a statement. "JMS is proud of the teamwork displayed by IND and IPL that made this green project such a great success. "Our hope is that many visitors from other states and countries fly into IND and realize after passing the solar farm that Indiana is both a great place to live and a progressive community for thriving new businesses." http://www.indystar.com/story/news/2014/12/22/indianapolis-airport-solar-farm-expansion- complete/20754083/ Back to Top ERAU NextGen 101 Seminar - Washington, D.C. "The Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University-Worldwide Office of Professional Education is pleased to announce a two-day seminar entitled NextGen 101. The course is designed to identify the key concepts, attributes, and challenges of the Next Generation Air Transportation System (NextGen). Government and industry employees with an interest in NextGen, aviation stakeholders and members of the military transitioning to a career in civilian education should attend. The course will take place in Washington D.C. on April 21-22, 2015. Course fee is $750 per person or $675 per person with five or more people registering from the same group. For more information and to register, please visit us online at http://proed.erau.edu/programs/specialized-industry-training/nextgen-101- seminar/index.html" Back to Top Upcoming Events: IS-BAO Workshop Information and Registration 13 - 14 Jan. 2015 Baltimore, MD USA https://www.regonline.com/CalendarNET/EventCalendar.aspx?EventID=1592658&view=Month 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 ERAU NextGen 101 Seminar April 21-22, 2015. Washington D.C. http://proed.erau.edu/programs/specialized-industry-training/nextgen-101- seminar/index.html FAA Helicopter Safety Effort three-day safety forum April 21-23, 2015 Hurst, Texas eugene.trainor@faa.gov www.faahelisafety.org Curt Lewis