Flight Safety Information - February 12, 2021 No. 032 In This Issue : Incident: Alitalia A319 at Rome on Feb 9th 2021, rejected takeoff due to bird strike : Incident: American B738 at Phoenix on Feb 9th 2021, banging in the cockpit : Report faults landing of Southwest jet that overshot runway : Wing Aviation Group Joins the Air Charter Safety Foundation and ASAP : U.S. upgrades Costa Rica aviation safety rating -FAA : Airlines are starting to take flight with fully vaccinated crews : FAA to Hold Webinar on Aviation Noise Effects and Mitigation Research Portfolio : Spirit Airlines is hiring pilots and flight attendants again in hopes of pandemic recovery : U.S. House committee approves another $14 billion for pandemic-hit airlines : Bombardier To Close Down Learjet Production : NASA seeking astronaut seat on Soyuz launch in April : ISASI - 2021 ISASI Rudolf Kapustin Memorial Scholarship Incident: Alitalia A319 at Rome on Feb 9th 2021, rejected takeoff due to bird strike An Alitalia Airbus A319-100, registration EI-IMM performing flight AZ-884 from Rome Fiumicino (Italy) to Malta (Malta), was accelerating for takeoff from Fiumicino's runway 25 when the crew rejected takeoff at high speed (about 110 knots over ground) due to a bird strike. The aircraft slowed safely and returned to the apron. A replacement A319-100 registration EI-IMG reached Malta with a delay of 2.5 hours. The occurrence aircraft returned to service about 40 hours after the rejected takeoff. A passenger reported they heard a bang from the left hand side and an orange flash from the left engine (CFM56), immediately afterwards the brakes came on. The flight attendants announced the takeoff had been aborted and more information would follow, the captain subsequently announced that a bird strike had occurred, they would disembark and board another aircraft. http://avherald.com/h?article=4e2e25df&opt=0 Incident: American B738 at Phoenix on Feb 9th 2021, banging in the cockpit An American Airlines Boeing 737-800, registration N901NN performing flight AA-2214 from Phoenix,AZ to San Antonio,TX (USA) with 106 people on board, was climbing out of Phoenix cleared to climb to FL210 when the crew stopped the climb at 13,000 feet MSL and slowed to 210 KIAS reporting banging sounds at the backside of the cockpit. The crew declared emergency and requested runway 26. The aircraft landed safely back on Phoenix's runway 26 about 18 minutes after departure. A replacement Boeing 737-800 registration N844NN reached San Antonio with a delay of 2 hours. The occurrence aircraft returned to service about 14 hours after landing. https://flightaware.com/live/flight/AAL2214/history/20210210/0320Z/KPHX/KSAT http://avherald.com/h?article=4e2d90ab&opt=0 Report faults landing of Southwest jet that overshot runway A federal investigator says Southwest Airlines pilots on a flight into Burbank, California, overshot the ideal touchdown point and should have aborted the landing before the plane skidded off a wet runway in December 2018. The findings by an expert in aircraft performance were included in documents posted Thursday by the National Transportation Safety Board, which is investigating the incident. The plane was stopped by absorbent material shortly before a fence and a street bordering Hollywood Burbank Airport. None of the 117 passengers and crew on the flight from Oakland, California, were injured. The investigator’s report is only one part of the NTSB probe. It could be several months before the board determines probable cause for the overrun. A spokeswoman for Southwest said the airline would not comment on the ongoing investigation. Burbank has relatively short runways, and air traffic controllers warned the pilots of heavy rain at the airport. A small jet before them had aborted a landing. “Yeah, it’s wet with a tailwind and (expletive) short runway,” said the co-pilot, Peter Van Pelt, according to an NTSB transcript of the cockpit conversation. “Awesome,” replied the captain, John Welinski, who was handling the landing. “What could possibly go wrong? You’re going to have to earn your money, man,” Van Pelt answered, followed by the sound of laughter. The pilots warned passengers to expect hard braking after landing. Welinski told investigators that he set the plane’s automatic brakes to maximum and used thrust reversers, but the plane still didn’t feel like it was slowing after touchdown. He considered turning at an intersection with a taxiway, but the plane only drifted to the left, as if the nose wheel were in a skid. NTSB specialist John O’Callaghan wrote in a report on the plane’s performance that a tailwind, the landing point and a fast approach speed all contributed to the plane leaving the runway. “However, of the three, the long touchdown is the most significant contributor,” he said. O’Callaghan wrote that the plane touched down at least 1,000 feet too far down the runway, and under Southwest’s own guidelines, “a go-around (was) the better option.” In a go-around, pilots pull up and circle before making another attempt to land. Both pilots flew for many years in the military before joining Southwest, had extensive experience and clean records with no previous accidents or incidents, according to NTSB documents. https://www.wjhl.com/news/report-faults-landing-of-southwest-jet-that-overshot-runway/ Wing Aviation Group Joins the Air Charter Safety Foundation and ASAP The Air Charter Safety Foundation welcomes the Orlando, Florida-based Wing Aviation Group as its newest member company. The company will join the ACSF’s 245 other members in their focus on leading and supporting the advancement of aviation safety standards. A prominent charter operator in the Central Florida region, Wing Aviation Group will also participate in the ACSF’s Aviation Safety Action Program (ASAP). Kevin Wargo, CEO of Wing Aviation Group, said that his company’s decision to join the ACSF follows on their longstanding commitment to operational safety. “The ACSF literally stands for safety, and one of the critical factors for Wing is to align itself with the optimal partners and ensure that we are operating with the highest standards.” The ASAP is a separate program administered by the ACSF in partnership with the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). Participation in the ASAP enables aviation employees to voluntarily report significant safety concerns, non-compliance with regulations and other unusual events. Each report is investigated, and corrective actions are determined based on a non-disciplinary approach to flight safety. Aaron Smith, Wing Aviation Group’s Safety Director and Gulfstream Captain noted that the company’s decision to participate in the ASAP is similarly based on its safety emphasis. “We feel the program allows users to be more open with incidents that may occur, incidents would have normally gone unreported. Because of how the ASAP system works, we’re confident it will increase our overall safety culture within the company.” ACSF President Bryan Burns praised Wing Aviation Group’s decision to join ACSF. “The standard of leadership in this company is obvious from the degree of thought and consideration that have gone into joining us,” he said. “Their safety rationale is right on target, and completely aligned with our ACSF and ASAP mission.” https://www.aviationpros.com/aircraft/business-general-aviation/press-release/21209401/air-charter-safety-foundation-wing-aviation-group-joins-the-air-charter-safety-foundation-and-asap U.S. upgrades Costa Rica aviation safety rating -FAA WASHINGTON — The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said on Thursday that Costa Rica now complies with international aviation safety standards and has been granted the highest international ranking. The FAA in May 2019 had downgraded Costa Rica to Category 2, meaning its carriers could continue existing service to the United States but would not be allowed to establish new service to U.S. destinations. The new Category 1 rating is based on reassessments in 2020 and a January safety oversight meeting with Costa Rican aviation authorities. https://financialpost.com/pmn/business-pmn/u-s-upgrades-costa-rica-aviation-safety-rating-faa Airlines are starting to take flight with fully vaccinated crews Etihad Airways and Singapore Airlines Group hope to make passengers feel more comfortable by promoting their vaccinated pilots and cabin crews Airlines are starting to promote a new perk to bring passengers back nearly a year after the pandemic started: vaccinated pilots and flight attendants. On Wednesday, Etihad Airways announced it was “the first airline in the world with 100% vaccinated crew on board.” Not to be outdone, Singapore Airlines Group said its three carriers — Singapore Airlines, SilkAir and Scoot — on Thursday would be among the first airlines in the world to operate flights with all pilots and cabin crew vaccinated. The CEO of United Airlines said last month that he wants to make the vaccine mandatory for employees, which the airline is still considering. Airline and aviation workers in the United States have asked to be given priority for vaccinations, according to news reports. The moves come as airlines try to recover from the worst year on record for air travel demand. The International Air Transport Association said demand fell by nearly 66 percent in 2020 compared with the previous year. [Want to travel after getting vaccinated? Precautions are still needed, experts say.] “Vaccinations will be key to the reopening of borders and to enhancing travel confidence, in tandem with robust testing regimes and the wide-ranging safe management measures that are in place on the ground and in the air,” Singapore Airlines CEO Goh Choon Phong said in a statement. “They offer greater protection for our people and provide an added layer of assurance to our customers.” More than 90 percent of the Singapore company’s pilots and crew have signed up for the vaccine so far, according to a news release. Singapore has made aviation workers a priority for vaccinations. Etihad, the national carrier of the United Arab Emirates, said more than 75 percent of its entire staff has received at least one dose of the vaccine. All of its operating pilots and cabin crew have been vaccinated. The airline already made testing mandatory for every passenger and crew member before flying. “We proactively made the vaccine available to all our employees to not only help combat the effects of COVID-19 but to make travelers feel confident and reassured the next time they fly with us,” Tony Douglas, group chief executive of Etihad Aviation Group, said in a statement. 100% of our crew are vaccinated. We’re the first airline in the world to vaccinate all pilots and cabin crew on board against #COVID19 pic.twitter.com/LUeAH7Q4pL — Etihad Airways (@etihad) February 10, 2021 Some countries are letting fully vaccinated visitors avoid entry requirements such as quarantines, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Wednesday that people who have been fully vaccinated don’t have to quarantine after they’ve been exposed to someone with the virus. But infectious-disease specialists say even vaccinated people should still limit travel to essential trips and use precautions like wearing masks and keeping a distance. It’s still not clear if people who have been inoculated can transmit the virus, even if they are protected against getting sick. “You still need to reduce your risk until the majority of the population is protected,” Jessica Malaty Rivera, an epidemiologist with the COVID Tracking Project, told The Washington Post. https://www.washingtonpost.com/travel/2021/02/11/airline-singapore-etihad-covid-vaccine/ FAA to Hold Webinar on Aviation Noise Effects and Mitigation Research Portfolio The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) will hold a public webinar to present its recently-released Noise Research Portfolio and Neighborhood Environmental Survey on Monday, Feb. 22, 2021, at 6:00 p.m. ET. The webinar will provide an overview of the agency’s noise research program, including the survey, followed by a live question and answer session. It will be held on the Zoom platform and livestreamed across social media on the FAA’s Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and LinkedIn accounts. You can register to attend the webinar on our website. The FAA is sharing information on its aircraft noise research programs that include initiatives related to the effects of aviation noise impacts on the public, efforts to mitigate such noise exposure, and research on public perception of aviation noise. This information includes the results of the Neighborhood Environmental Survey, a multi-year research effort to review and improve FAA’s understanding of community response to noise. The survey included responses from more than 10,000 people living near 20 airports across the country, and the results show an increased level of reported annoyance due to aircraft noise in contrast to earlier surveys. The FAA is seeking public comment on its noise research program, including the Neighborhood Environmental Survey and any additional areas recommended for further investigation. The public comment period opened January 13, 2021, and the notice is published in the Federal Register. A link to the notice is also available on the FAA’s Aviation Noise website. Successfully addressing noise requires continued collaboration among all aviation stakeholders. In this regard, the FAA’s research programs provide important insight into the relationship between aircraft noise exposure and the well-being of people living in communities surrounding our nation’s airports. As part of FAA’s broader research on aircraft noise, this survey data and the research related to noise abatement will be used to inform the collaborative efforts to address noise issues. The FAA actively engages with airport authorities, aircraft manufacturers, airlines, state and local governments and communities to address noise concerns. Its decades-long effort with these partners includes collaboration with airport authorities and community groups to implement noise abatement procedures safely when operationally feasible. The agency also works with local governments to encourage responsible land use planning that avoids building residential housing in areas that will be exposed to significant airplane noise. Today’s civilian aircraft fleet is quieter than at any time in the history of jet-powered flight, and FAA continues to work with manufacturers and air carriers to reduce noise at the source. In fact, over the last four decades, the number of Americans exposed to significant aviation noise near airports has been reduced from 7 million to just over 400,000–more than a 94 percent reduction. During the same period, the number of annual passengers increased from around 200 million per year to more than 900 million per year. https://www.aviationpros.com/aircraft/business-general-aviation/press-release/21209995/federal-aviation-administration-faa-faa-to-hold-webinar-on-aviation-noise-effects-and-mitigation-research-portfolio Spirit Airlines is hiring pilots and flight attendants again in hopes of pandemic recovery Spirit Airlines is planning to start training new pilots and flight attendants as early as next month as the budget carrier positions itself for a travel rebound after the pandemic slump. “We’ll be a big hirer again,” CEO Ted Christie said Thursday. “Growth in the airline industry is going to be at the leisure end, and we’re the primary server of that guest.” Christie said the airline plans to hire for other positions as well this year. Spirit last trained a class of new pilots in May and new flight attendants last February, a spokesman said. The carrier declined to say how many employees it plans to add this year. It ended last year with 8,756 employees, including 2,497 pilots and 4,028 flight attendants, according to a securities filing. The airline is also calling back some workers who took leaves of absence, programs that helped avoid involuntary furloughs of unionized workers, who make up the bulk of its staff. Some of those employees, like pilots, will also need to meet federally mandated training requirements before returning to the job. “Our training footprint can only handle so much, so it has to be phased,” Christie said of the company’s hiring plans. Spirit lost $428.7 million in 2020, its first annual net loss since at least 2007, according to FactSet data. U.S. airlines together lost more than $34 billion last year because of the pandemic, which executives call the industry’s worst-ever crisis. Spirit, like others, is now hoping that the rollout of vaccines will help spur a revival in air travel. The airline expects to get back to 2019 capacity levels by midyear, it said. “Vaccine deployment, lowering total Covid case numbers should lead to more confidence from the traveling public and a loosening of restrictions,” Christie said. The turnaround will take time. Spirit and other airlines saw weaker-than-expected demand as Covid cases rose late last year and at the start of 2021, as well as a slow start to vaccine distribution. New travel restrictions such as Covid test requirements for international, U.S.-bound flights also hurt bookings. Cowen & Co. airline analyst Helane Becker forecast Spirit’s first-quarter revenue will be down 46% compared with pre-pandemic levels and estimated a deeper per-share 2021 loss than previously expected, partially due to higher costs associated with “preparing operations for growth during the recovery.” Spirit’s shares fell more than 8% on Thursday to $30.01, but its stock price is still up nearly 23% this year, more than most U.S. airlines. Late Thursday, the House Financial Services Committee advanced a proposal for $14 billion in additional federal payroll support for airlines, which have already received $40 billion from the government during the pandemic to pay workers. The new round of aid would require airlines to keep employees through Sept. 30 and would be a part of the Biden administration’s $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief package. Labor unions, American Airlines and United Airlines have supported another round of aid as the threat of new furloughs looms for up to 27,000 employees when the current package runs out after March 31. When asked whether he supports additional aid even though the airline is hiring, Christie said: “Our industry needs to be fair in all cases, so there can’t be selective aid. To the extent that the government does decide to either extend the existing program or modify it, then I think it is to be expected that all airlines would be a beneficiary there.” https://www.cnbc.com/2021/02/12/spirit-airlines-hires-pilots-flight-attendants-in-hopes-of-covid-recovery.html U.S. House committee approves another $14 billion for pandemic-hit airlines (Reuters) - A U.S. House committee on Thursday approved a proposal to give airlines another $14 billion in payroll assistance as part of a broader COVID-19 relief package that is working its way through Congress. It would be the third round of support for the pandemic-hit industry. American Airlines and United Airlines have warned of some 27,000 furloughs without an extension of the current package that expires on April 1. The House of Representatives Financial Services Committee on a 29-24 vote approved the $14 billion for airlines and $1 billion for contractors to cover payroll through September. The funds will be included in the $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill proposed by President Joe Biden, whose initial plan did not include new money for airlines. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said on Thursday that she expects lawmakers to complete legislation based on the bill by the end of February. American Airlines said in a statement after the committee vote that the payroll support program, which covers employee wages and bans job cuts, "has been a lifeline for our team members." U.S. airlines are burning through millions of dollars every day as the pandemic crushes travel demand. The Air Line Pilots Association, the largest pilot union in the world, said the funds "would help prevent the additional financial devastation that would result from the aviation industry being forced to furlough tens of thousands of workers." Budget carriers Spirit Airlines, Allegiant Travel and Frontier Airlines, however, have said in recent weeks that they intend to resume pilot hiring later this year. Reuters first reported many of the details of the plans to provide new assistance to U.S. airlines, transit systems, airports and passenger railroad Amtrak. https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/u-house-committee-approves-another-025947758.html Bombardier To Close Down Learjet Production Bombardier has announced that it intends to end Learjet production in the fourth quarter of 2021 in order to focus on its Challenger and Global aircraft families. Stating that it will continue to support the Learjet fleet “well into the future,” the company also launched its Learjet RACER remanufacturing program on Thursday. The program will offer upgrades for the Learjet 40 and Learjet 45 including interior and exterior components, new avionics, high-speed connectivity and engine enhancements. “With more than 3,000 aircraft delivered since its entry-into-service in 1963, the iconic Learjet aircraft has had a remarkable and lasting impact on business aviation,” said Bombardier CEO Éric Martel. “However, given the increasingly challenging market dynamics, we have made this difficult decision to end Learjet production.” The decision to wind down Learjet production was announced as part of the Bombardier’s full year 2020 financial report. Citing market conditions and the need “to make the organization more efficient and agile,” Bombardier also said that it plans to eliminate approximately 1,600 positions from its overall workforce and consolidate Global aircraft completion work in Montréal, Canada. The company reported that it delivered 114 aircraft in 2020 and saw its business aircraft revenues grow three-percent year-over-year. https://tinyurl.com/4osobx54 NASA seeking astronaut seat on Soyuz launch in April If you would like to see more articles like this please support our coverage of the space program by becoming a Spaceflight Now Member. If everyone who enjoys our website helps fund it, we can expand and improve our coverage further. NASA wants to fly an astronaut on Russia’s next Soyuz mission to the International Space Station in April, a measure the agency says would ensure a continued U.S. presence on the research outpost in case of delays in the launch of SpaceX’s next Crew Dragon flight. A NASA astronaut could join two Russian cosmonauts on the Soyuz MS-18 mission, scheduled for launch April 9 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Russian commander Oleg Novitskiy, a veteran of two prior missions to the space station, will lead the three-person crew. Two rookie cosmonauts — Pyotr Dubrov and Sergey Korsakov — have been training to fly in the other two Soyuz seats. NASA said Feb. 9 it might secure rights to at least one of the Soyuz seats as a hedge against possible delays to SpaceX’s next Crew Dragon launch to the space station, currently scheduled for April 20 from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. NASA wants to make sure there is at least one U.S. crew member on the orbiting complex at all times. In a statement, NASA said the “supplemental seat” on the upcoming Soyuz crew rotation mission would give the space agency a backup plan in case the Crew Dragon launch is delayed. According the Russian Tass news agency, the Russian space agency Roscosmos says it expects to “formalize” an agreement to fly a U.S. astronaut on the mission. April and May are scheduled to be busy months for crew rotations at the space station. Novitskiy’s crew will arrive at the space station soon after their April 9 launch from Baikonur, beginning a week-long handover with the outgoing Soyuz crew that docked with the space station last October. The Soyuz MS-17 crew — commander Sergey Ryzhikov, flight engineer Sergey Kud-Sverchkov, and NASA astronaut Kate Rubins — are scheduled to depart the station and head for landing in Kazakhstan on April 17. Four other members of the station’s current seven-person crew arrived in November aboard SpaceX’s Crew Dragon “Resilience” spacecraft. That crew, led by NASA commander Mike Hopkins, will be replaced by four astronauts on SpaceX’s Crew-2 mission set to blast off from Florida on April 20. Assuming an on-time launch of the Crew-2 mission, Hopkins and crewmates Victor Glover, Soichi Noguchi, and Shannon Walker will head for Earth around May 1, targeting a splashdown at sea off the coast of Florida. The Crew Dragon’s seven-month design lifetime expires in mid-June, meaning the Crew-2 mission must launch by then for the space station to remain staffed with U.S. astronauts. While there’s no hint of a delay in the Crew-2 launch, schedule slips are common in the space business. “NASA’s SpaceX Crew-2 is expected to launch as planned April 20,” NASA said in a statement Feb. 9. “However, if the mission launch is delayed or an event occurs while Crew-2 is in-orbit that requires a premature return, NASA risks not having a U.S. crew member aboard the International Space Station.” There’s also the unlikely scenario where a crew capsule might have to leave the space station early, due to a health emergency or a technical failure. Space station astronauts and cosmonauts must ride to and from the station in the same spacecraft, so such a situation could empty the outpost of all its U.S. or Russian crew members. The Crew-2 astronauts are led by NASA commander Shane Kimbrough, who will be joined by pilot Megan McArthur, Japanese mission specialist Akihiko Hoshide, and European Space Agency astronaut Thomas Pesquet. NASA contracted with SpaceX and Boeing to develop the Crew Dragon and Starliner spacecraft to end U.S. reliance on Russian Soyuz vehicles for astronaut transportation services to and from the space station. The Starliner has not yet flown with astronauts, and Boeing plans a second unpiloted test flight of the Starliner in late March, redoing a previous test flight in December 2019 that ended prematurely due to software problems. If the Starliner demo flight goes well in March, Boeing plans to launch astronauts on a Starliner for the first time around September, followed by the start of regular crew transportation service. SpaceX’s Crew-1 mission, led by Hopkins, is the company’s first operational Crew Dragon flight. SpaceX previously accomplished successful unpiloted and crewed test flights on the Crew Dragon spacecraft in 2019 and 2020. NASA officials have said for years they want to continue flying U.S. astronauts on Russian Soyuz missions. But instead issuing cash payments directly to the Russian government, NASA says it wants to provide Russian cosmonauts with rides on SpaceX Crew Dragon and Boeing Starliner spaceships in return. Kathy Lueders, head of NASA’s human spaceflight directorate, told Spaceflight Now in November that the agency had finalized the text of a draft agreement with Roscosmos that would allow Russian cosmonauts to begin flying to the International Space Station on U.S. crew capsules in 2021. She said NASA wanted to have the agreement in place in time for a Russian cosmonaut to fly on SpaceX’s Crew-3 mission scheduled for launch this fall. NASA has named three crew members to the Crew-3 mission, and a seat remains open, likely for a Russian cosmonaut if agencies approve a final agreement in time. The agreement would allow all future U.S. and Russian crew missions to the station to carry a crew member from the other partner. The agreement will help ensure there is always a trained crew member on-board the space station to operate the outpost’s Russian section and U.S. On-Orbit Segment, or USOS, which includes U.S., Japanese, European, and Canadian hardware. If Russia’s Soyuz program or the U.S. crew vehicles are grounded, crew members from the other international partners will still be able to fly to the space station. “At NASA, we have a phrase we use often – dissimilar redundancy. That’s NASA speak for saying we always have a back-up plan that ensures we have a path forward even if we encounter an issue with our initial approach,” said Robyn Gatens, acting director for the International Space Station at NASA Headquarters. “We look forward to the next crew rotation on NASA’s SpaceX Crew-2 mission, and we’re looking to ensure we can continue to maximize our use of the station and minimize any risk by flying a U.S. astronaut on the upcoming spring Soyuz by providing in-kind services.” NASA issued a solicitation this week to request information from companies that might be able to secure a Soyuz seat on the April 9 launch. NASA has previously used Boeing as an intermediary to purchase Soyuz seats, and other space tourism companies — like Axiom Space and Space Adventures — are in positions to act as brokers in such a deal. The Verge reported Thursday that NASA is looking to buy the Soyuz seat in April through Axiom. “There is one established U.S. Crew Vehicle (USCV) capability in the early phases of operation, which is scheduled to fly this spring, and a second USCV provider in the late stages of development,” NASA wrote in the Feb. 9 solicitation, referring to SpaceX and Boeing, respectively. “Experience has shown that new launch capabilities may encounter unanticipated delays or difficulties maintaining initial schedules. “Should no supplemental crew transportation capability be acquired, the result could be a period wherein there is no U.S. presence on the ISS, disrupting ongoing research and technology development in the United States On-orbit Segment (USOS), in addition to putting the ISS itself at risk since trained USG (U.S. government) crew members are necessary to maintain and operate hardware and to conduct emergency Extravehicular Activities (EVAS, or spacewalks) if necessary to perform repairs,” NASA said. https://spaceflightnow.com/2021/02/11/nasa-seeking-astronaut-seat-on-soyuz-launch-in-april/ ERAU - Research Study Dear Pilot, You are being asked to participate in a research study of your opinions on urban air mobility. This study is expected to take approximately 10 minutes of your time. In order to participate, you must be at least 18 years old, a resident of the U.S., a certified pilot, and have piloted with the last 5 year. Participation in this study is voluntary, and you may choose to opt out of the study at any time. If you choose to opt out, your data will be immediately destroyed. We appreciate your consideration and time to complete our study. Please click on or copy and paste the URL below: https://forms.gle/PMY7C4fh9LL3VWUa9 For more information, please contact: Dr. Scott R. Winter scott.winter@erau.edu We appreciate your interest and participation! ISASI - 2021 ISASI Rudolf Kapustin Memorial Scholarship Are you a full-time student in a collegiate aviation program? Do you know a full-time student in the aeronautical/aerospace engineering, aviation operations, aviation psychology, aviation safety and/or aircraft occurrence investigation fields? Applications are now being accepted for the 2021 ISASI Rudolf Kapustin Memorial Scholarship! This award includes funded attendance at the ISASI Annual Seminar. An award of $2,000 will be made to the student(s) who meets the eligibility criteria and is chosen by the Scholarship Fund Committee based on the contents of the application package including an essay submission. The 2021 annual scholarship award will function a bit differently than past awards. This year the award includes funded attendance at the ISASI Virtual Annual Seminar. Additionally, all remaining funds from the scholarship award will be used to cover costs for the seminar registration fees, travel, and accommodation expenses for either the 2022 or 2023 in-person seminar. Please see eligibility requirements and an application attached. We look forward to receiving your applications and reviewing your essays! Thank you, ISASI Scholarship Fund Committee Application Form: https://tinyurl.com/11hf7onq Curt Lewis