Flight Safety Information February 23, 2017 - No. 040 NBAA Accepts Unmanned Safety Institute's Online UAS Course Incident: Azul E195 at Vitoria on Feb 21st 2017, cabin side wall overheats and catches fire Florida pilot working for U.S. armed forces accused of flying jumbo jet while drunk Metamaterial Technologies partners with Airbus to protect pilots from laser strikes Profit should never be allowed to override airport safety Skills shortage delays Thai AOC approvals Travel Ban Could Be Just the Beginning of Upheaval for Airlines Ethiopia: Authority Vows to Strive for Aviation Expansion, Safety Researchers navigating ways to avoid aircraft icing India left with only four Super Hercules aircraft as another damaged in accident in Ladakh Inaugural U.S. - China General Aviation Business Conference Scheduled for March 25-31 FEDEX START Incident: Azul E195 at Vitoria on Feb 21st 2017, cabin side wall overheats and catches fire An Azul Linhas Aereas Embraer ERJ-195, registration PR-AUO performing flight AD2520 from Belo Horizonte,MG to Vitoria,ES (Brazil), was landing on Vitoria's runway 05 when the left side wall next to a passenger seat began to warm up. The aircraft slowed safely and was taxiing when the cabin side wall overheated and burst into flames. Cabin crew immediately tackled the fire successfully removing the side wall and extinguishing the fire. There were no injuries, the aircraft received minor damage. The occurrence is being investigated by Brazil's CENIPA. http://avherald.com/h?article=4a547371&opt=0 Back to Top Florida pilot working for U.S. armed forces accused of flying jumbo jet while drunk ORLANDO, Fla. - A Brevard County pilot has been accused of drunkenly flying a Boeing 747 overseas while working for a U.S. armed forces subcontractor, federal court documents said. Daniel R. Criss, who was working as a pilot for armed forces subcontractor Kalitta Air, was charged Wednesday in Orlando federal court with flying the jet between Osan Air Base in South Korea and Yakota Air Base in Japan while drunk. The alleged incident happened on July 14, 2015, a federal indictment said. Criss faces a charge of operating a common carrier under the influence of alcohol or drugs. His blood-alcohol concentration at the time exceeded the .10 percent limit allowed by federal law, court documents said. http://www.wsoctv.com/news/water-cooler/florida-pilot-working-for-us-armed-forces-accused-of-flying- jumbo-jet-while-drunk/496632155 Back to Top Metamaterial Technologies partners with Airbus to protect pilots from laser strikes A still from the video (embedded below) on how metaAIR protects the occupants of aircraft from laser strikes. (Image credit: Metamaterial Technologies) IMAGE: A still from the video (embedded below) on how metaAIR protects the occupants of aircraft from laser strikes. (Image credit: Metamaterial Technologies) Metamaterial Technologies (MTI; Halifax, NS, Canada) and its optical filters division, Lamda Guard, entered into an agreement with aircraft manufacturer Airbus to validate, certify, and commercialize its laser protection product metaAIR [trademarked]. In 2014, MTI signed its first agreement with Airbus to test and tailor metaAIR, which is a flexible metamaterial optical filter engineered to protect pilots against harmful laser beams aimed at aircraft. Laser strikes on commercial aircraft are rising globally and laser pointers are increasing in power and decreasing in price. Lasers can distract pilots during critical phases of flight and can cause temporary visual impairment. In 2015, according to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), the number of reported laser incidents nearly doubled to 7,703 in commercial aviation. "We know from facts and conversations with clients that cockpit illuminations are real, immediate and increasing in frequency, and metaAIR will benefit our customers," said Pascal Andrei, VP, chief product security officer at Airbus. "We also see an increasing number of possible applications for metaAIR, beyond the commercial aircraft division." MTI is a great example of Airbus "start-up 2 partner" program led by Elsa Keïta from Airbus Corporate Innovation. This program aims at building mutually beneficial partnerships with disruptive innovators and Airbus has been working in a successful and collaborative approach with MTI to accelerate their laser protection solution for the benefit of its customers. "Today marks another milestone in our strategic partnership with Airbus. We are given the opportunity to propel our platform technology and learn from some of the top aerospace engineers while understanding the rigours of developing a product for the aerospace industry," said George Palikaras, MTI founder and CEO. "metaAIR will provide vision protection to pilots in the aviation industry and can offer solutions in other industries including the military, transportation and glass manufacturers." MTI has also developed a partnership with Covestro, one of the world's leading companies for high-tech polymers. Covestro supplies a custom Bayfol HX photopolymer film for the manufacturing of metaAIRT. "MTI is at the cutting edge of optical applications. They have developed a unique optical filter that is different from anything currently available on the market, and we have been working with them for the last two years to provide a specialty photopolymer material film and support the required volume," said Thomas Fäcke, responsible for marketing and business development of photopolymer films at Covestro. "Safety is very important to our company, and we are excited to be a part of this solution." SOURCE: Metamaterial Technologies; http://www.metamaterial.com/news-and-events/press- releases/press-release/metamaterial-technologies-inc-partners-with-airbus-to-co-develop-and- commercialize-metaair-a-laser-protection-solution/ http://www.laserfocusworld.com/articles/2017/02/metamaterial-technologies-partners-with-airbus-to- protect-pilots-from-laser-strikes.html Back to Top Profit should never be allowed to override airport safety When is an airport not about aviation? In Australia at least, the answer to that question depends on whom you ask. Residents around most federally leased general aviation airports in Australia might say that there is too much aviation, or that aviation is too close to home. If you ask an aviator who flies to such airports, their answer might be that they prefer flying to "old-fashioned" airfields rather than being made to endure the headaches that come with avoiding ever-increasing developments such as office blocks and shopping centres taking up space on valuable airport land. While this week's tragedy at Essendon Airport is freshly the subject of investigation, the accident is again an important reminder that lessons are there to be learned about the regulation of planning and development at federally leased airports to ensure the right balance is struck between air safety and commercial operations. Essendon is one of a handful of Australian airports that were once run by the commonwealth, but privatised in the late 1990s by way of long-term leases to private airport operators. What those operators learned fairly quickly is that aviation doesn't pay. In fact, the value to be had from the airport sites was not from fostering the growth of Australia's general aviation sector at airports like Essendon, or bringing commercial efficiency to the operation of our major air gateways (although that was one positive contribution, some will argue). No: the value to be had was simply the land. Property like federally leased airport sites was and is in short supply. Typically it is near major cities, with existing road or rail infrastructure to connect them to the outposts of trade. Subleases, with rentals paid by high-volume box-movers and retail mega-warehouses, easily trump the few dollars that can be earned from landing fees from student pilots trying to earn their wings. And this is why we see encroachment on airports by property developments. Areas that once were grassy and necessary excess spaces for mitigating aviation accidents are now dwindling because they equal money to airport operators. Notwithstanding height limitations and certain use limitations, airports have increasingly come to be associated with commercial development more than aviation. The upshot is that aviation is being edged out of airports. And of course, while the major impediments such as adherence to Obstacle Limitation Surfaces are mandatory for airport operators to preserve, it is arguable that any further control given to them (for example, permitting temporary intrusions as "controlled activities", which intrude into that airspace) should solely be the reserve of our air safety regulators. The Airports Act 1996 and its regulations (which facilitated the sale of long-term leases of major airports to private operators) allow airport operators to make safety-sensitive interim decisions about the protection of airspace used by fare-paying passengers. This is one of the many concerns open for critique in a public consultation paper published by the Department of Infrastructure and Regional Development (which administers the leased airports), focusing on "Modernising Airspace Protection". The paper, open for comment until Tuesday, follows the recommendation of the Aviation Safety Regulation Review Panel in 2014, which sought that the department "take a leadership role to ensure the future viability of airport infrastructure is not compromised by poor planning and land-use decisions". The department "found a number of regulatory gaps ranging from outdated regulatory approaches ... regulatory overlap ... and considerable scope for improvement in regulatory oversight". It must be hoped that this process will help to bring to a head the need to ensure that airports are getting the balance right on safety versus commercial imperatives. Greater planning control on leased airports under the Airports Act; more stringent airspace protection by DIRD and the Civil Aviation Safety Authority than current regulations permit; or, as a last resort, commonwealth buyback of the airports at the end of their lease are all options to review. The causes of this week's accident are still to be determined, but at a minimum it serves as a tragic and timely reminder to all airspace users and to the commonwealth that airspace protection at airports is an issue sorely in need of greater oversight. Influential corporate interests should never trump the primacy of air safety. Joseph Wheeler is the principal of aviation and aerospace law firm IALPG, national head of aviation law at Maurice Blackburn Lawyers and aviation legal counsel to the Australian Federation of Air Pilots. http://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/aviation/profit-should-never-be-allowed-to-override-airport- safety/news-story/152d6d9f4fc5a06f61cd60815bc9a8bc Back to Top Skills shortage delays Thai AOC approvals The Civil Aviation Authority of Thailand (CAAT) has suspended issuing new Air Operator's Certificates (AOCs) due to a shortage of suitably qualified inspectors. AIN Online cites a confidential source who says that the CAAT is working to train more personnel in order to ensure that regulation and safety standards can be met. An audit of Thailand's then-Department of Civil Aviation (DCA) - now the CAAT - carried out in January 2015 by the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) found a number of breaches of safety standards. In its audit, ICAO scored Thailand less than 50% compliant in all areas except for 'airworthiness'. Of particular concern was the 'operations' score, a dismal 10.71%, with ICAO identifying "a significant safety concern with respect to the ability of this State [Thailand] to properly oversee its airlines (air operators) under its jurisdiction." Thailand is one of only eight countries to bear a red flag from ICAO due to air safety regulation concerns. As a result of the ICAO audit, the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) downgraded Thailand to Category 2 in late 2015. The relegation meant that Thailand has been unable to introduce any new routes to the United States. There are currently no direct flights between the two countries although Thai Airways International (TG, Bangkok Suvarnabhumi) has alluded to the possibility of resuming flights to the US - either San Francisco, CA or Seattle Tacoma Int'l - at some point. Since it formed, the CAAT has initiated a series of measures to improve Thailand's safety record. Procedures were put in place in late 2016 to restrict the number of start-ups looking to commence operations in the country, placing greater scrutiny on finances and ownership. The CAAT is also currently recertifying all twenty-seven existing carriers in Thailand, divided into four groups: the first group is made up of Thai Airways International; Bangkok Airways; Thai AirAsia, Nok Air, NokScoot, K-Mile Air, and Orient Thai Airlines. The second group comprises Thai Smile, Siam Air, Jet Asia Airways, R Airlines, Asia Atlantic Airlines, Thai VietJetAir, Thai Lion Air, and NewGen Airways. The third group has seven airlines and the fourth group two. AIN's source has said that one of the airlines undergoing recertification will shortly have its AOC revoked "due to operational problems". 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Credit Matt Roth for The New York Times Airline executives were preparing to meet with President Trump on Thursday to discuss issues including jobs and international competition, a meeting that comes as the on-again, off-again enactment of his travel ban has had them scrambling. But even beyond the ban, executives and government officials expect Mr. Trump to be a disruptive influence on air travel. Some are concerned about an executive order seeking the elimination of two regulations for every new one enacted, which they say could have a negative effect on safety rules. They also await Mr. Trump's thoughts on a proposal to privatize the air traffic control system, which has been run by the federal government since 1936. President Trump has not taken a position on a House Transportation Committee proposal to turn over more than 300 air traffic control facilities and 30,000 employees to a private nonprofit corporation run by executives nominated by aviation industry participants. Privatization would be the biggest change in the system since President Ronald Reagan fired 11,345 striking air traffic controllers in 1981, effectively killing their union. The Federal Aviation Administration had to spend three years restaffing after the striking workers were fired, and the system was hit with a personnel shortage 25 years later when those replacement workers became eligible for retirement. Overtime and six-day work weeks have been the norm since that time in busy areas, according to the National Air Traffic Controllers Association. Controllers complained that had affected safety and morale. While some airlines and the air traffic controllers association support privatization, not all F.A.A. work groups do. In size and complexity, the change would be even more difficult than in 1981, although the potential impact on safety has not been a significant part of the discussion. The two-for-one rule, however, could threaten a longstanding process of proposing new aviation regulations based on problems revealed by accidents. "There are some rules that need to be made," said Tom Haueter, an air safety consultant and a former air safety director for the National Transportation Safety Board. A rigid formula that counts rules rather than considering their contents "does not create a safe situation," Mr. Haueter said. In the United States, nearly every action related to commercial aviation is circumscribed. Airplane and engine designs must be certified. Their manufacturing is inspected. Many more rules govern the airlines and the air space their planes occupy. Passengers have rules to follow, too, as any traveler can attest. In the U.S., nearly every action related to commercial aviation is circumscribed. Airplane and engine designs must be certified. Their manufacturing is inspected. Passengers have rules to follow, too. Credit David McNew/Getty Images While F.A.A. regulations apply to any airline or airplane manufacturer operating in the United States, the impact is felt more broadly because other countries often use the F.A.A.'s rules when developing their own. Still, the need for rules can be overstated, said Alex Wilcox, a founder of JetBlue and now the chief executive of JetSuite, a California-based airline. "The carriers are far more concerned with aviation safety than the F.A.A. is," he said. "For us, it's a matter of survival. If we crash, it has a worse effect on our brand and businesses than the F.A.A. We've got the most to lose." Of all the potential disruptions on the horizon, safety is unlikely to be a casualty, said John Gadzinski, an airline pilot and air safety consultant from Norfolk, Va. "The world of commercial aviation is so cocooned within a large infrastructure of established practices, regulations and customs that it is almost immune from political firestorms that go on outside," he said. The accident rate for airlines in the United States has declined over the past century through efforts that began with improving the machines and expanded to improving human performance. Creating a no-blame culture in response to mistakes is a safety concept now embraced in the United States and other countries. Mr. Gadzinski said Washington could learn from the experiences of the airline industry. That was the message he took to Capitol Hill earlier this month. Mr. Gadzinski, a Republican, told his congressman, Scott Taylor, Republican of Virginia, that he worried about the confrontational atmosphere around the new administration. He said that he contrasted the political polarization in America with modern air safety programs that require cooperation and teamwork. "The practice of demonizing and belittling is especially toxic to the world of aviation," Mr. Gadzinski said he told his congressman. When the stakes are so high for the industry, learning from mistakes is important, he said. It is possible that a personal brush with an airline accident could affect the administration's views. Less than two weeks before the election, Mike Pence, now the vice president, was on an Eastern Airlines chartered flight that ran off the runway after landing at La Guardia Airport. The Boeing 737 skidded into a gravel bed designed to stop a plane's momentum, and no one was injured. That was an attention-getting event and one that will surely have an effect on the present administration, said Mark Dombroff, an aviation lawyer formerly with the Justice Department. "The Trump administration is in that rare position," Mr. Dombroff said. "All of a sudden you have the vice president who is actually involved in an accident. If that doesn't sensitize you to issues of aviation safety, nothing does." https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/08/business/air-traffic-control-privatization.html?_r=0 Back to Top Ethiopia: Authority Vows to Strive for Aviation Expansion, Safety The Ethiopian Civil Aviation Authority disclosed that it has been working towards ensuring aviation safety as per the international standard, 0.4 accident per every ten thousand flights. The authority presented its biannual execution to Transport Affairs Standing Committee here recently. The Authority reported its relentless effort towards building the capacity of aviation professionals to curb aviation accidents that may arise from lack of technical know-how in the sector. Encouraging activities are also underway to lift the number of Ethiopian Airlines' international destination from 91 to 106, Authority Director General Col. Wossenyeleh Hunegnaw said. The airline will kick off three services soon, of which Argentina to be one of them, the director added. Over 89 per cent of Authority's plan for the reporting period had seen execution, according to the report. The report indicated that capacity building training was offered to aviation professionals to curb aviation accidents. Besides, Authority reports that, in order to be able to undertake its tasks for the fiscal year pursuant to its plan, it signed MoU with Australia, India, Ghana and Argentina and promoted the existing agreements with China, DRC, France, Greece, Portugal, Guinea, and Nigeria. The fact that no flight accident, in international services, was registered over the last six months, a performance on aviation safety which exceeds international standards. The Standing Committee, which lauded the execution, advised the Authority to take a research based strategic actions to be able to use its enormous potential regarding aviation academy. International aviation audit reports also indicate that, the Ethiopian Civil Aviation Authority is in a good status in the context of Africa with its target in creating internationally flexible, safety and credible aviation system. http://allafrica.com/stories/201702080416.html Back to Top Researchers navigating ways to avoid aircraft icing CAMP DAWSON, West Virginia - Lance Cpl. Nicholas Chieu, a crew chief with Marine Heavy Helicopter Squadron 464, brushes snow and ice off of a CH-53 Super Stallion during a deployment for training exercise aboard Camp Dawson, West Virginia. Researchers at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) think they are on the path to giving aircraft a way to avoid potentially hazardous icing conditions from a safe distance. Accumulating ice on aircraft in the air is the result of a weather phenomenon called supercooled liquid clouds. "Clouds composed of supercooled liquid can cause aircraft to ice over quickly because the liquid water droplets are below the freezing point and will freeze after contact with aircraft surfaces," said Ian Adams, an electrical engineer in NRL's Remote Sensing Division. Adams said supercooled liquid clouds are difficult to detect using conventional ground-based or airborne weather radars. Those instruments do not provide information on the temperature of clouds and precipitation, and supercooled droplets are often too small to be detected by radar. Adams and colleague Justin Bobak are approaching the problem by investigating the feasibility of a forward-looking passive sensor. Adams presented their work at the recent Fall meeting of the American Geophysical Union in San Francisco. "Having a forward-looking passive millimeter-wave radiometer could be beneficial for both manned and unmanned aircraft," Adams said. "It would be particularly useful when size, weight, and power requirements restrict the installation of deicing equipment." BRUNSWICK, Maine - A CH-53E Super Stallion with Marine Heavy Helicopter Squadron 464 lands in snow during Exercise Frigid Condor near Brunswick, Maine, Jan. 22, 2017. HMH-464 conducted the exercise to increase the squadron's operational Adams and Bobak started by using observations of arctic mixed-phase cloud structure to create a computer-simulated instrument response of a forward-looking sensor. The simulations were performed using ARTS, the Atmospheric Radiative Transfer Simulator, a state-of-the-art radiative transfer model with 3D capabilities. "So far, the model shows a strong signal at two distances when compared with a clear sky scenario," Adams said. "It shows supercooled liquid layers not visible to ground-based radar." Further simulation work will expand the set of atmospheric conditions modeled. Adams and Bobak are also collaborating with NRL Electronics Science and Technology division members Kurt Gaskill, Paul Campbell, and Harvey Newman as well as Marc Currie from NRL's Optical Sciences Division to investigate the possibility of using graphene in the detector to reduce size, weight, and power for compatibility with small unmanned aerial vehicles. https://phys.org/news/2017-02-ways-aircraft-icing.html#jCp Back to Top India left with only four Super Hercules aircraft as another damaged in accident in Ladakh In this File photo Indian Air Force personnel stand near C-130J-30 Super Hercules aircraft after its induction ceremony at Hindon Air Force Station in Uttar Pradesh. | PTI NEW DELHI: In a major setback to Indian Air Force strategic airlift capability, C-130J 'Super Hercules' aircraft involved in an accident that has left it badly damaged while taxing at a high altitude Thoise airfield in Ladakh. With the accident, IAF is presently left with four of the six such super Hercules airlift, procured from the US for special operations in 2011. Earlier in March, IAF had lost a C-130J during "a tactical low-level training sortie" after it crashed near Gwalior, killing the five personnel on board. Though accident happened in December, a high-level court of inquiry is on to fix the responsibility of the mishap. In all, India has ordered 13 C-130Js from the US for over $2.1 billion. While the first six planes were inducted at the Hindon airbase in NCR, the rest are earmarked for the second C-130J squadron to be based at Panagarh in West Bengal for the eastern front with China. http://www.newindianexpress.com/nation/2017/feb/23/india-left-with-only-four-super-hercules-aircraft- as-another-damaged-in-accident-in-ladakh-1573770.html Back to Top Inaugural U.S. - China General Aviation Business Conference Scheduled for March 25-31 This event will be attended by many officials from China who are tasked with growing that countries burgeoning general aviation market CHINO, Calif. (February 15, 2017) - China is poised to become one of the largest markets in the world for general aviation. The country's growing wealth, huge population, dynamic economy and vast size makes it fertile ground for the unique travel solutions provided by general and business aviation. China for the first time has moved towards loosening its restrictions on general aviation especially with the latest announcement of the opening of newly increased flying area of 200 kilometer radius (108 nautical or 125 statute miles). The Chinese Government has also announced ambitious plans to take advantage of the economic and job creation opportunities that general aviation represents. "This is a first opportunity for U.S. based companies to meet the people in China who are responsible to a great extent to grow the aviation business in China," said Dr. Yuanyang Gao Director, General Aviation Industry Research Center, Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Deputy Secretary General, AOPA-China. "And represents an opportunity for U.S. companies to share their expertise in an area that is new to China - general aviation." If China is to grow its general aviation industry it literally needs assistance with everything involved in the infrastructure and the supply chain. The U.S. China General Aviation Business Conference will take place from March 25 - 31 in Southern California and already has confirmed the participation of more than 30 representatives from Chinese Government agencies, investment, airport operations, and academia who have been tasked with growing that country's general and business aviation sector. There are two main opportunities for U.S. Companies to interact with Chinese attendees: the conference day at the Embassy Suites in Brea, CA on March 27th and the Aviation Expo at Threshold Aviation at Chino Airport, CA on March 28th. Threshold is very pleased to be hosting this important event and we look forward to having many of our friends and other stake-holders in the industry attend and exhibit, to take advantage of this amazing opportunity to develop business ties with the Chinese people in aviation." Said Mark DiLullo, Founder and CEO of Threshold Aviation. For information on the event please visit FlyTTI.com and click on the link for the General Aviation Business Conference. About Threshold Aviation Group Based in Chino, California, Threshold Aviation Group is one of the largest providers of maintenance, operational and related services to aircraft owners, operators, manufacturers, lenders, governments, fractional operators, insurance companies, airlines, jet charter companies and individuals throughout the world. Services encompass private jet management, aircraft charter, aircraft maintenance, inspections and overhaul, AOG services, business jet completions both interior and exterior and inspections, modifications, avionics, full FBO services, acquisitions and operational management. A market niche that Threshold has utilized for over 15 years is that of purchasing Business Jet Aircraft that need maintenance inspections, repairs, avionics, engine modifications, or interior upgrades. During the last 15 years, we have purchased more than 50 aircraft from around the world. These aircraft were purchased and re-positioned to our Chino facility where we utilize our full-service maintenance team to conduct the required repairs or upgrades, after which the aircraft are sold. Threshold's fuel, 150,000 sq.ft. of hangar and significant ramp storage, maintenance and related costs are among the lowest on the West Coast. This has resulted in a loyal following of customers and clients for over 25 years. Threshold is a philanthropic minded company who benefits the surround community with a annual Christmas gathering for thousands of children and their families with hot food and many presents for all ages. Threshold participates in numerous other community events throughout the year as well. Please see www.flytti.com for more information. Curt Lewis