Flight Safety Information February 22, 2018 - No. 039 In This Issue Incident: American B738 near Chicago on Feb 21st 2018, odour on board EVAS - COCKPIT SMOKE PROTECTION Incident: PSA CRJ7 at Kansas City on Feb 20th 2018, gear disagree on departure Incident: Swiss BCS3 at Zurich on Feb 20th 2018, bird strike Pilot reported brake problem, jet veers into fence during landing at Elko airport Flight Safety Foundation urges ICAO to accelerate regulation of recreational drones Pratt & Whitney Announces Jet Engine Fix As CEO Calls It 'Short-Term' Problem Head of pilots' union opposes reducing required flight hours for pilots Claude Vuichard To Receive HAI BLR Aerospace Safety Award Hawaiian Airlines changes course, picks Boeing's 787 Dreamliner over Airbus GAMA: Airplane, Helicopter Shipments Up In 2017 Qantas adding in-flight Wi-Fi to one aircraft per week T-X to replace T-38 at pilot training bases Qantas Is Setting Up a Pilot-Training School Honda becomes No.1 in small jet shipment SpaceX is about to quietly launch the first 2 of nearly 12,000 satellites to blanket Earth in high-speed Internet Medallion Foundation - Providing Assurance In Your Systems Positions Available: Check Airmen Wanted Position Available: General Manager / Senior Flight Data Analyst Incident: American B738 near Chicago on Feb 21st 2018, odour on board An American Airlines Boeing 737-800, registration N856NN performing flight AA-1191 from Chicago O'Hare,IL to Newark,NJ (USA), was climbing through FL230 out of Chicago when the crew declared emergency due to an odour on board and decided to return to Chicago. The aircraft landed safely on Chicago's runway 10L about 35 minutes after departure. The crew advised that the odour had subsided in the meantime and taxied the aircraft to the apron. https://flightaware.com/live/flight/AAL1191/history/20180221/1445Z/KORD/KEWR http://avherald.com/h?article=4b534e1e&opt=256 Back to Top Back to Top Incident: PSA CRJ7 at Kansas City on Feb 20th 2018, gear disagree on departure A PSA Airlines Canadair CRJ-700, registration N718PS performing repositioning flight JIA-9925 from Kansas City,MO to Charlotte,NC (USA) with 4 crew, was in the initial climb out of Kansas City when the crew declared emergency and levelled off at 7000 feet reporting they had a gear disagree message, possibly because of ice accretion. The crew subsequently reported they had the gear down and locked. The aircraft returned to Kansas City for a safe landing on runway 01L about 30 minutes after departure. https://flightaware.com/live/flight/JIA9925/history/20180220/1100Z/KMCI/KCLT http://avherald.com/h?article=4b534a31&opt=256 Back to Top Incident: Swiss BCS3 at Zurich on Feb 20th 2018, bird strike A Swiss Global Airlines Bombardier C-Series CS-300, registration HB-JCF performing flight LX-1660 from Zurich (Switzerland) to Venice (Italy), departed Zurich's runway 28 and was in the initial climb when the crew reported they had hit a large bird during the departure roll, they wanted to continue for now. The crew later stopped the climb at FL190 suspecting some engine (PW1524) damage and returned to Zurich for a safe landing on runway 14 about 30 minutes after departure. The rotation was cancelled, the passengers were rebooked onto the next rotation LX-1662/LX-1163. http://avherald.com/h?article=4b5323ac&opt=256 Back to Top Pilot reported brake problem, jet veers into fence during landing at Elko airport The nose of a jet that landed at Elko Regional Airport is pressed into a chain link fence after veering off the runway Wednesday morning. ELKO - A vintage military aircraft that has competed at the Reno Air Races veered off the runway at Elko Regional Airport Wednesday morning and crashed into a fence. The unusual plane was seen flying over Elko before the crash, which occurred around 10:15 a.m. under partly cloudy skies and calm weather conditions, with the temperature just below freezing. Airport Manager Jim Foster said the lone occupant, pilot Robert McCormack, was taken to Northeastern Nevada Regional Hospital as a precaution, after complaining of lower back pain. The aircraft appeared to be fully intact, although its nose was pressed into the chain link fence surrounding the runway. Foster said he did not know why the plane veered off the runway, but the pilot reported having a "brake problem." He was on his way to Utah and probably stopped in Elko for gas, Foster added. The Soko G-2 Galeb is described as a two-seat jet trainer with a Rolls Royce engine. It was manufactured from the mid 1960s through the mid 1980s and used by the military in Yugoslavia and Libya, according to www.militaryfactory.com. http://elkodaily.com/news/local/update-pilot-reported-brake-problem-jet-veers-into-fence- during/article_80d13af3-9d82-558a-9aff-c7fb3294df75.html Back to Top Flight Safety Foundation urges ICAO to accelerate regulation of recreational drones The Flight Safety Foundation (FSF) sent a letter to Dr. Fang Liu, ICAO secretary general, urging ICAO to accelerate regulation of recreational drones. The Foundation is increasingly concerned that uncertificated, untrained recreational drone operators are flying small UAS near airports and manned aircraft, posing a safety risk. FSF urges "ICAO to accelerate efforts to fashion appropriate Standards and Recommended Practices for drones, along with procedures and guidance material for States. We also urge all States to intensify efforts to develop proportionate and risk-based approaches for drone laws and regulations that ensure the public's safety, including by direct regulation of recreational drones, with adequate tracking and identification. We encourage States to consider mandating such technologies as geo- fencing, altitude limiters and line-of-sight controls for equipment used by hobbyists." Although some civil aviation authorities - including the European Aviation Safety Agency and those in Australia, Canada, France, Japan, Singapore and the U.K. - currently regulate all drone operations, others, including the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration, due to legislative restrictions, have had to limit "hobbyist" regulation to registration. More information: * FSF Press Release https://news.aviation-safety.net/2018/02/21/flight-safety-foundation-urges-icao-accelerate- regulation-recreational-drones/ Back to Top Pratt & Whitney Announces Jet Engine Fix As CEO Calls It 'Short-Term' Problem * Jet engine maker Pratt & Whitney says it's found a fix to a parts problem that forced Airbus earlier this month to suspend delivery of its A320neo. Hours after Pratt & Whitney announced a fix to the latest problem with its next-generation jet engine, the chief executive officer of parent company United Technologies Corp. downplayed the problem as a "little bit of a short-term snafu." CEO Greg Hayes, speaking to industry analysts meeting in Miami on Wednesday, said UTC expects few problems with the delivery of its geared turbofan engines. A faulty seal on a compressor forced Airbus earlier this month to suspend delivery of its A320neo jet on IndiGo, the Indian low-cost airline and the plane's biggest customer. "While it makes great headlines there's only about 100 engines that were impacted by this design change," Hayes said. "We still feel good about our delivery commitments to Airbus and to the airlines for the year." Until the engine clocks 1 million hours, "it's still a new engine," Hayes said. The GTF fleet has posted about 500,000 hours and is expected to reach 1 million hours by the end of the year, he said. "Once we get to that 1 million hour mark I think we will have wrung out most of the teething issues," he said. "But no one wants to declare victory until we're done." "So again, a little bit of a short term snafu. Nothing we like to see," Hayes said. "But we're on top of it, the Pratt team is on top of it and working with our customers." UTC promotes the next-generation geared turbofan engine as quieter and more fuel efficient than those produced by competitors. The conglomerate, which also makes elevators and building systems such as heating and cooling and security equipment, has spent $10 billion to develop and build the engine. With a backlog of 8,000 engines and rising aerospace business, Pratt & Whitney stands to benefit from years of rising profit. But troubles with the engine undermine the manufacturer's ability to soon start realizing that profitability. Hayes said Pratt & Whitney resumed production late last week and will get engines to Airbus by early March. Pratt & Whitney said it released a "revised configuration" as a solution to the problem related to a knife edge seal on a high-pressure compressor. "The solution is based on a design with which the company has significant experience and this solution has received all necessary regulatory approvals," Pratt & Whitney said. The problem took analysts by surprise. Several industry observers said in January UTC appeared to have put the chronic production troubles behind it. UTC announced in October 2016 it appointed an aerospace executive as operations chief at Pratt & Whitney to oversee the supply chain and delivery of equipment, including the engine. http://www.courant.com/business/hc-biz-pratt-whitney-engine-20180221-story.html Back to Top Head of pilots' union opposes reducing required flight hours for pilots WASHINGTON - The head of the largest pilots' union called last year's aviation safety record the result of years of work, but warned that reducing pilot training could hurt safety. Airlines worldwide had 10 fatal crashes last year with 44 fatalities, for the safest year on record, according to the Aviation Safety Network, an independent group in the Netherlands that tracks accidents. Five were cargo flights and five were passenger flights, but none of those involved jets. The U.S. hasn't had a fatal domestic passenger airline crash in more than nine years. Experts credited the safety record to pilot training and rest rules, and to studying aviation data to spot problems such as landing patterns before accidents occurred. "This tremendous worldwide achievement made people pause and reflect on the tremendous work each of us in this industry does to keep flying safe," said Capt. Tim Canoll, president of the 59,000-member Air Line Pilots Association, told an Aero Club luncheon Wednesday. But he warned against weakening Federal Aviation Administration regulations adopted after the last fatal crash of a U.S. passenger airliner, Colgan Air flight 3407, in February 2009. http://www.wtsp.com/article/news/nation-now/head-of-pilots-union-opposes-reducing-required- flight-hours-for-pilots/465-40639ce6-0400-4d34-8877-68cf20f635dc Back to Top Claude Vuichard To Receive HAI BLR Aerospace Safety Award Claude Vuichard, a former line pilot and flight instructor who developed the Vuichard Recovery technique, will receive the HAI 2018 Salute to Excellence BLR Aerospace Safety Award. The Vuichard Recovery technique trains helicopter pilotsto recover from a vortex ring state with minimal loss of altitude. In the vortex ring state, helicopters lose the ability to maintain lift and begin to drop. For more than 30 years, pilots have used Vuichard's method to adjust their controls and exit the ring state by moving the aircraft to the side. While various helicopter operators have adopted the Vuichard Recovery, several organizations have publicly supported this technique. Both the International Helicopter Safety Team and the U.S. Helicopter Safety Team have published Airmanship Bulletins supporting this maneuverer. Meanwhile, Robinson Helicopters integrated the Vuichard Recovery into its safety course. Vuichard currently teaches around the world and continues to develop new techniques to improve helicopter safety. He has dedicated his retirement from the Federal Office of Civil Aviation in Switzerland to reducing helicopter accidents. Vuichard also serves as founder and president of the Vuichard Recovery Aviation Safety Foundation. https://www.ainonline.com/aviation-news/general-aviation/2018-02-21/claude-vuichard-receive- hai-blr-aerospace-safety-award Back to Top Hawaiian Airlines changes course, picks Boeing's 787 Dreamliner over Airbus Boeing Co. has reportedly convinced Hawaiian Airlines to cancel an existing order with overseas rival Airbus in favor of an unspecified number of the Chicago-based aerospace giant's 787-9 Dreamliners. Scott Hamilton, editor of aerospace website Leeham News & Comment, was the first to report that the Honolulu-based carrier will cancel its order for six A330-800 wide-bodies built by Airbus and flip its order to Boeing. An official announcement could come by the end of this week. The cancellation would leave Airbus without any orders for the A330-800 and just over 200 orders for the larger A330-900. Boeing sees both models - part of the A330neo family - as potential threats to a new middle-of-the-market plane, dubbed the 797, which still hasn't officially been announced. Hamilton said Boeing "was determined to win at any cost" and offered its Dreamliners at a lower cost than the Airbus planes. The Dreamliner order would be the first for Hawaiian Airlines. Boeing's 787-9 has a list price of about $282 million, but airlines typically negotiate steep discounts and the normal sales price is thought to be less than half that amount. The cost to build a 787-9 is between $80 million and $90 million. Hamilton said Boeing likely offered the plane to Hawaiian Airlines at a price below $115 million to win the order. https://www.postandcourier.com/business/hawaiian-airlines-changes-course-picks-boeing-s- dreamliner-over-airbus/article_67b379c4-1746-11e8-b253-b780d691d252.html Back to Top GAMA: Airplane, Helicopter Shipments Up In 2017 GAMA released their year-end shipment and billings data on Wednesday, along with a "State of the Industry" news conference that was streamed live online. Their data shows that airplane shipments globally increased 2.5 percent in 2017 compared to 2016, and rotorcraft shipments rose 7.5 percent, from 861 units in 2016 to 926 in 2017. "Notable from these numbers is that the rotorcraft segment stabilized after several years of declining deliveries," GAMA said in a news release. Business jet deliveries grew slightly, by 1.3 percent, rising from 667 to 676 units, driven mainly by new models that entered service last year. Piston airplane shipments grew by 6.5 percent, to 1,085 units, but turboprop deliveries slowed to 563 airplanes, compared to 582 deliveries in 2016, a 3.3 percent decline. The industry panel expressed optimism about the future of the industry, citing new FAA regulations for Part 23 certification that they hope will encourage innovation by simplifying the certification process. They also cited new technologies they are excited about, such as simplified aircraft operations and safety enhancements such as envelope protection, as well as new forms of propulsion such as electric and hybrid powerplants. Simon Caldecott, CEO of Piper Aircraft, noted that his grandchildren often fly with him, but he expects they will get interested in flying themselves when they can do it using an iPad. GAMA President Pete Bunce said his organization is optimistic about the future of general aviation. He cited "some very positive economic indicators," including stabilization in the used business aircraft market, new manufacturing techniques such as additive manufacturing, and innovative technologies that are driving urban air mobility vehicles, electric and hybrid propulsion, unmanned aerial vehicles and commercial space. https://www.avweb.com/avwebflash/news/GAMA-Airplane-Helicopter-Shipments-Up-In-2017- 230339-1.html Back to Top Qantas adding in-flight Wi-Fi to one aircraft per week * More than 30 percent of Qantas' domestic fleet has been fitted out with on-board Wi-Fi connectivity at a rate of around one aircraft per week, the airline has revealed. Qantas has revealed that it is rolling out Wi-Fi to its domestic fleet at a rate of around one aircraft per week, with the majority to be complete by the end of 2018. According to the Australian airline, it now has 22 Boeing 737 planes kitted out with the connectivity technology, or more than 30 percent of its 737-800 fleet, with Qantas CEO Alan Joyce partially attributing the "record" Qantas Domestic first-half financial results to the in-flight Wi-Fi program. "With Qantas Domestic, we're seeing the benefits of investing to generate margin growth through improvements like Wi-Fi and cabin upgrades," Joyce said. "We're seeing continued capacity discipline in the domestic market, coupled with a product advantage that's delivering a significant profit share to the group." Qantas announced a six-month statutory profit after tax of AU$607 million, up 17.9 percent year on year, on revenue of AU$8.66 billion, up 5.8 percent. Net capital expenditure for the half year was AU$962 million, including capex required for the Wi-Fi rollout, with net free cash flow of AU$772 million as of December 31. Qantas had announced an acceleration of its in-flight Wi-Fi rollout across its domestic Airbus 330 and Boeing 737 aircraft during its full-year financial results in August, following the completion of its trial along with regulatory approval for the service. "Our investment in free in-flight Wi-Fi will ramp up from September, as we finish what has been a successful trial and move to an accelerated rollout to our domestic A330s and 737s," Joyce said at the time. Qantas had further revealed that it is "waiting for an improved technology that will allow fast Wi-Fi for our international routes". The airline commercially launched its free in-flight Wi-Fi in beta mode on-board its Boeing 737 VH- XZB aircraft that travels between Melbourne, Sydney, and Brisbane in early April 2017, with a series of live tests during its first flight seeing speeds between 2.57Mbps and 7.24Mbps download and 0.26Mbps and 0.61Mbps upload. During initial testing in February, Qantas had connected 140 passengers with an average of 1.6 devices each to the Wi-Fi system at download speeds of between 7Mbps and 12Mbps. Originally, Qantas was aiming to enable access speeds of up to 20Mbps per passenger, with satellite communications service provider ViaSat looking to provide a service-level guarantee to Qantas of 12Mbps at all times throughout the flight once the service leaves beta mode. Qantas first partnered with ViaSat to deliver the Wi-Fi service using Australia's National Broadband Network (NBN) Sky Muster satellite service in February 2016. The service makes use of idle satellite capacity as the aircraft travels through Sky Muster's 101 Ka-band spot beams. A satellite antenna will be mounted on top of each aircraft by Qantas engineers, along with several wireless access points, resulting in similar signal strength for all passengers no matter where they are seated on the plane. Qantas, which last year also developed an app with GE to cut carbon emissions, in July then announced kitting out a second domestic 737 aircraft with new Wi-Fi technology from ViaSat ahead of eight more gaining the equipment by the end of September. ViaSat's new equipment is tipped to provide faster speeds and more reliable connections. Around 80 Boeing 737 and Airbus 330 aircraft are expected to be fitted out with the service by late 2018. Once the rollout is complete, around 15 million customers per year will experience the free on-board Wi-Fi. Qantas also partnered with Foxtel, Stan, Netflix, and Spotify to allow customers to stream content for free while in-flight. At the end of last year, Qantas CTO Rob James said that the airline is also focusing on improving its digital interactions with customers. "If you think about it from a customer's perspective, their touch points with Qantas as a brand is through digital channels; it's only once you finally get to the airport that you experience a lounge or you're finally on the aircraft, you experience a physical touchpoint," James said. "For most, they're not even walking in to a travel agent to book a ticket, they're doing it online and you're preparing a lot of things online or through mobile -- we are very fast becoming a digital business." Qantas is also looking towards artificial intelligence (AI) machine learning to train autopilots, James said, as well as using automation throughout the business. "An organisation like Qantas is quite diverse; we cover everything from the service side of the business right through to the engineering, maintenance, freight, etc," he explained. "There are big opportunities for aviation to embrace automation and we're certainly looking at opportunities and innovation where we can. "The backbone to automation is the data that you capture and I think every organisation is at the same place at the moment where our growth capture is becoming exponential; we're capturing a lot more video content so what can we do with that content through machine learning and automation -- we're exploring quite a bit there." http://www.zdnet.com/article/qantas-adding-in-flight-wi-fi-to-one-aircraft-per-week/ Back to Top T-X to replace T-38 at pilot training bases WASHINGTON (AFNS) -- The Air Force announced today that the Advanced Pilot Trainer (T-X) will replace T-38C Talon aircraft at existing undergraduate pilot training bases, with Joint Base San Antonio-Randolph, Texas, named as the preferred location for the first T-X aircraft scheduled to arrive in 2022. The other locations include Columbus Air Force Base, Mississippi; Laughlin AFB, Texas; Sheppard AFB, Texas; and Vance AFB, Oklahoma. Current pilot training installations rely on a unique runway structure and special-use airspace capable of supporting high volume pilot training which makes them ideal for the new aircraft. "As we bring the T-X training aircraft into service, we'll base them at our current undergraduate pilot training bases which have the airspace and runways needed for the mission," said Secretary of the Air Force Heather A. Wilson. The new trainer will provide student pilots with the skills and competencies required to transition into 4th and 5thgeneration fighter aircraft. "We need the T-X program to properly train our pilots to fly our growing fleet of 5th generation aircraft," said Chief of Staff of the Air Force Gen. David L. Goldfein. "This new training capability will enable pilots to receive realistic training in a system similar to our fielded fighters." Basing the T-X at JB San Antonio-Randolph first, home to Air Force instructor pilot training, is an essential step to establishing a T-X instructor pilot pipeline and sets the conditions to transition to T-X training at the other flying training locations. The Air Force will now begin the required environmental analyses at all of the existing undergraduate pilot locations. Final basing decisions are dependent on the outcome of the environmental analyses. The Air Force expects to award a contract for the new aircraft in 2018, with the first aircraft expected to arrive at JB San Antonio-Randolph as early as 2022. http://www.af.mil/News/Article-Display/Article/1447116/t-x-to-replace-t-38-at-pilot-training-bases/ Back to Top Qantas Is Setting Up a Pilot-Training School As the world grapples with a shortage of pilots, Qantas Airways Ltd. is taking matters into its own hands. The Australian airline is setting up a school to train as many as 500 pilots a year, it said Thursday as it reported record first-half profits. The carrier will initially produce about 100 pilots a year just for Qantas, and other airlines could ultimately pay for training at the facility, Chief Executive Officer Alan Joyce told reporters. The Qantas facility due to open in 2019 will meet just a fraction of the industry's needs. The Asia- Pacific region alone will require more than a quarter of a million new pilots by 2036, about 40 percent of the global total needed, according to Boeing Co. Qantas will initially invest as much as A$20 million ($16 million) in the school, to be based in regional Australia, Joyce said. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-02-22/global-pilot-shortage-draws-do-it-yourself- response-from-qantas Back to Top Honda becomes No.1 in small jet shipment Japanese automaker Honda has announced that its HondaJet won the most delivered jet title in its category last year. The small business jet has been developed, manufactured and sold by Honda to the US and other markets since 2015. The company says it delivered 43 units in 2017, about double the figure for the previous year, putting it in top place in the small business-jet segment. The aircraft's engines are mounted above each wing to maximize cabin space. It is faster than most rivals and sales are growing in the US and European markets. This month, a record 16 units were ordered from a French company. Honda's strong run is in stark contrast to Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, which is struggling with delays in the development of its MRJ passenger jet. Demand for small business jets is rising among corporate executives. Honda says it will boost efforts to sell its aircraft in the growth markets of China and Southeast Asia. https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20180222_33/ Back to Top SpaceX is about to quietly launch the first 2 of nearly 12,000 satellites to blanket Earth in high-speed internet A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.SpaceX/Flickr * SpaceX, the aerospace company founded by Elon Musk, is set to launch a Falcon 9 rocket on Thursday at 9:17 a.m. ET. * The launch is expected to send up a Spanish company's radar satellite and two experimental SpaceX satellites. * The two SpaceX satellites may test aspects of Starlink, a project to bathe Earth in high-speed internet coverage using nearly 12,000 spacecraft. * You can watch SpaceX's live broadcast of the launch on YouTube (below) starting around 9 a.m. on Thursday. This story was updated at 9:15 a.m. ET on Wednesday after SpaceX delayed the launch one day, from Wednesday morning to Thursday morning. SpaceX, the rocket company founded by the tech mogul Elon Musk, plans to launch a Spanish radar satellite atop one of its go-to rockets on Thursday morning. If all goes well, the satellite, called Paz, will keep an eye on the oceans of the world for ship traffic. But there's most likely a payload hitching a ride on the rocket that SpaceX isn't publicizing in its press kit: two smaller satellites that are part of Musk's plan to bathe Earth in high-speed internet coverage. The scale of the proposal, informally known as Starlink, is incredible. In the coming years, the company hopes to launch 4,425 interlinked broadband-internet satellites into orbit some 700 to 800 miles above Earth, plus another 7,500 spacecraft into lower orbits. That's nearly 12,000 satellites, more than twice the number of all satellites launched in history, according to a tally by the Union of Concerned Scientists. SpaceX's founder, Elon Musk, at a press conference in February.Dave Mosher/Business Insider Musk and SpaceX have said little about their plan since announcing it in 2015. But since it would need approval from the Federal Communications Commission, public documents about the effort are released regularly, though quietly. According to FCC documents made public this month, the organization in November gave SpaceX permission to launch the two experimental spacecraft, called Microsat-2a and Microsat-2b, to test its space-based internet concept. The mission is set to lift off from the Vandenberg Air Force Base in California on Thursday at 9:17 a.m. ET - one day later than planned - aboard a Falcon 9 rocket. The weather looked good for a launch on Wednesday morning, but SpaceX became concerned about the risk of wind high in the atmosphere messing with the rocket's steering. "High altitude wind shear data shows a probable 2% load exceedance," Musk tweeted on Wednesday. "Small, but better to be paranoid. Postponing launch to tomorrow, assuming winds are better then." Watch the launch live on Thursday The launch of a Falcon 9 rocket.SpaceX/Flickr (public domain) SpaceX is sending up the mission using, in part, a reusable first-stage rocket booster that the company launched and recovered in August. But SpaceX said in a release that it would "not attempt to recover Falcon 9's first stage after launch." The Paz satellite is scheduled to deploy about 11 minutes after launch. There are no details in the press kit about the smaller satellites. You can read more about SpaceX's plan to create Starlink here and watch the launch below. The live video feed typically begins about 15 minutes before launch, which in this case should be shortly after 9 a.m. ET on Thursday. http://www.businessinsider.com/spacex-starlink-internet-satellite-launch-paz-youtube-2018-2 Back to Top Check Airmen Wanted - $45,000 (Phoenix, AZ) Main Responsibility: * Conducting FAR 141 recurrent training, check out flights on new hire CFIs, spot checks on line CFIs, perform remedial training, and observation flights. Qualifications: * High School Diploma or equivalent required * Must hold at least an FAA Commercial Pilot Certificate with Instrument Rating * Must have CFI, CFII, and MEI certificates * 6 months experience as a CFI required * Demonstrated success as a CFI with commensurate pass rate SKILLS AND ABILITIES * Ability to pass a Part 141 stage check pilot proficiency check for both single and multi-engine airplanes * Proficient on Microsoft Office (word, power point, excel) * Excellent oral and written communication skills * Excellent interpersonal skills, professional demeanor * Dependable, reliable and pays extreme attention to detail Benefits AeroGuard offers a variety of benefits: Paid PTO, medical, dental, vision and 401K with company match!!! SUBMIT RESUME TO: recruiter@flyaeroguard.com OR FOR MORE INFORMATION CALL: 623-580-7913 Back to Top Job Title: General Manager / Senior Flight Data Analyst This position is open to all aviation safety professionals keen to manage a business at the forefront of safety technology. Desirable qualifications include: * flight deck experience * an aviation or business-related degree * experience in voluntary safety programs * commercial experience Job Description This position combines the freedom to run and develop a business in the US with potential to make a real impact on aviation safety. It will suit a pilot who is keen on aviation but tired of hotels. The office is based in Phoenix, Arizona and customers are based from Canada to Venezuela. You will also be supporting operators around the world as a part of the Flight Data Services group of companies. Location: The job holder must be based Monday to Friday on site at our Phoenix office. Supervision: 4 current staff members (3 in office, 1 remote) Salary: The range for this role is $50,000 to $70,000 per annum dependent on skills and experience. There is also a comprehensive benefits package. IMPORTANT NOTES: * Resume and Cover Letter must be received by midnight March 31st 2018 at hr@flightdataservices.com * Successful candidates will be required to complete testing prior to scheduling for interview. * Interviews will be scheduled April 9th thru 11th and must be attended IN PERSON at the Phoenix, Arizona office. Main Purpose of Job: As General Manager you will have overall charge of the business of Flight Data Services Inc, including: 1. Management of the Company's affairs and administration. 2. Management of the staff of FDS Inc. 3. Management of customer interfaces, including annual visits, monthly reports and ad hoc communications. 4. Promotion of the Company within the continents of North and South America. 5. Responsible for Company compliance with state and federal law. As Senior Flight Data Analyst you will promote aviation safety through: 1. Providing leadership for US analysts by: a. Providing training and guidance as needed. b. Task distribution & workload management. 2. Routine analysis of downloaded data. a. Review of abnormal operations and determine the cause. b. Report on findings to airlines. c. Compilation of monthly customer reports. d. Occasional emergency customer support and call-out on a roster basis. e. Responding to ad hoc requests for analysis or supply of data. 3. Contributing to the Safety Seminar and Training Courses a. Preparation and delivery of presentations. b. Attendance at the seminar. c. Ad hoc training of attendees. 4. Depending upon specialization, one or more of the following: a. Preparation of new Analysis Specifications. b. Amending analysis procedures to change thresholds etc. in consultation with the customer and Analysis Manager c. Customer training d. Support to Marketing 5. Liaise with IT Support on software maintenance. 6. Liaise with Software Development team on the POLARIS project. The above is not an exhaustive list of duties and you will be expected to perform different tasks as necessitated by your changing role within the organization and the overall business objectives of the organization. ************** About Flight Data Services Flight Data Services is an industry-leader in flight safety innovation. Our expert knowledge of flight data, aviation safety, and information technology is delivered to aircraft operators globally. We are the largest dedicated provider of flight data analysis services and our qualified and experienced flight safety specialists include the highest ratio of analysts to aircraft in the aviation industry. Flight Data Services are proud to be a global, independent and private company. In 2015 we were accredited with the 'Investors in People' award and in 2017 we earned ISO 9001:2015 accreditation. 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