Flight Safety Information - September 27, 2022 No.186 In This Issue : Incident: Swiss BCS3 at Zurich on Sep 21st 2022, bird strike : Incident: Cargojet B752 at Hamilton and Winnipeg on Sep 13th 2022, engine trouble : Incident: Corendon B738 at Munich on Sep 24th 2022, rejected takeoff twice : Incident: British Airways A321N near Athens on Sep 24th 2022, cracked windshield : FBI investigating alleged assault on Southwest airlines flight into Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport : AIR FRANCE RELAUNCHES ITS CADET PILOT PROGRAMME : FAA Releases Vertiport Design Standards to Support the Safe Integration of Advanced Air Mobility Aircraft : California man gets prison for selling bogus aircraft parts : Pilots, cabin crew at Vistara now have more say in duty schedule : 500 additional parking spots, more than 600 balloon pilots, new special shapes coming to ABQ Balloon Fiesta : Sunwing union opposes Canadian carrier's plans to hire foreign pilots : Jet Fuel Derived From Used Cooking Oil Certified Airworthy for Large-Scale Production in China : Aircraft Parts Output Is Being Grounded by Worker Shortages : Southwest Airlines hired a record 3,000 flight attendants so far this year : ISASI’s PACIFIC NORTHWEST REGIONAL CHAPTER PRESENTS A FALL KICK-OFF EVENT! : GRADUATE RESEARCH SURVEY Incident: Swiss BCS3 at Zurich on Sep 21st 2022, bird strike A Swiss International Airlines Bombardier C-Series CS-300, registration HB-JCE performing flight LX-1884 from Zurich (Switzerland) to Bucharest Otopeni (Romania) with 131 people on board, was climbing out of Zurich's runway 10 when the crew stopped the climb at FL100 due to a bird strike. The aircraft returned to Zurich for a safe landing on runway 14 about 25 minutes after departure. A replacement CS-300 registration HB-JCL reached Bucharest with a delay of about 2.5 hours. The occurrence aircraft returned to service about 45 hours after landing back. https://avherald.com/h?article=4fed628f&opt=0 Incident: Cargojet B752 at Hamilton and Winnipeg on Sep 13th 2022, engine trouble A Cargojet Boeing 757-200 freighter, registration C-GAJU performing freight flight W8-571 from Hamilton,ON to Winnipeg,MB (Canada) with 2 crew, was climbing through 8000 feet out of Hamilton when the left hand engine's (RB211) EGT spiked momentarily to 911 degrees C and the autopilot disconnected. The crew consulted with operations and decided to continue the flight. The aircraft climbed to FL340 and was descending through 10,000 feet towards Winnipeg when the left hand engine became unresponsive and after working the checklists showed spikes of the EGT each time power was applied. The crew shut the engine down, declared PAN PAN and continued for a safe landing in Winnipeg. The Canadian TSB reported the operator is troubleshooting the left hand engine. https://avherald.com/h?article=4fed60d9&opt=0 Incident: Corendon B738 at Munich on Sep 24th 2022, rejected takeoff twice A Corendon Air Boeing 737-800, registration TC-TJU performing flight XC-3562 from Munich (Germany) to Izmir (Turkey), was accelerating for takeoff from Munich's runway 26L when the crew rejected takeoff at low speed due to a takeoff warning configuration. The aircraft vacated the runway and returned to the hold short line and attempted another takeoff from runway 26L, but again needed to reject takeoff at low speed due to takeoff configuration warning. The aircraft again vacated the runway, held at the adjacent taxiway for about 7 minutes then returned to the apron. After about 30 minutes at the apron and maintenance intervention the aircraft was able to taxi out again and this time departed and completed the flight without further incident arriving in Izmir with a delay of about 2 hours. https://avherald.com/h?article=4fed585c&opt=0 Incident: British Airways A321N near Athens on Sep 24th 2022, cracked windshield A British Airways Airbus A321-200N, registration G-NEOZ performing flight BA-624 from London Heathrow,EN (UK) to Rhodes (Greece), was enroute at FL370 about 150nm north of Athens (Greece) when the crew decided to divert to Athens due to a cracked left windshield. The aircraft landed safely on Athens' runway 03L about 35 minutes later. A replacement A321-200N registration G-NEOR reached Rhodes with a delay of about 10 hours. The airline reported a technical issue prompted the diversion to Athens. A replacement aircraft was arranged to take the passengers to Rhodes. The occurrence aircraft is still on the ground in Athens about 52 hours after landing. https://avherald.com/h?article=4fed335c&opt=0 FBI investigating alleged assault on Southwest airlines flight into Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport The FBI confirms it’s looking into a possible assault that may have happened on a Southwest Airlines flight coming into Phoenix on Saturday morning. PHOENIX (3TV/CBS 5) - The FBI confirms it’s looking into a possible assault that may have happened on a Southwest Airlines flight coming into Phoenix on Saturday morning. The Twitter thread has now gone viral, with the original post being retweeted over 30,000 times. It details what happened to one passenger during her flight to Phoenix Sky Harbor where she says a man used his chair to physically harm her. “Historically, that’s a big confrontational area because you have your space and that space is a tray table,” said Kenneth Ramage, a retired commercial airline pilot. New statistics from the FAA report there have been nearly 700 investigations since the beginning of 2022. Ramage says he believes these types of unruly passengers picked up during the pandemic. “After a while you just get tired of not being with people, and then when you get on an airplane with everyone crowded together, it doesn’t take much to get the confrontation level up,” he said. In this latest case, the victim says she experienced both misogynistic comments and racial slurs. Because the alleged incident happened mid-flight, the FBI says it’s investigating. So far, the man accused is not facing any charges. “People don’t understand, I believe, that it is a federal offense to interfere with crew members, damage the airplane or cause any incident on the airplane where physical contact is made,” Ramage said. Southwest Airlines sent us the following statement: “After being made aware of a situation on a Southwest flight on Saturday, the crew requested law enforcement meet the aircraft upon arrival. Southwest Airlines maintains zero-tolerance for any type of alleged harassment or assault on our customers or employees.” Southwest Airlines https://www.azfamily.com/2022/09/26/fbi-investigating-alleged-assault-southwest-airlines-flight-into-phoenix-sky-harbor-airport/ AIR FRANCE RELAUNCHES ITS CADET PILOT PROGRAMME A comprehensive pilot training programme fully financed by Air France. Online applications can be submitted at corporate.airfrance.com between 15 October 2022 and 20 December 2022. Suspended since the Covid crisis, the Air France cadet pilot programme is set to reopen with new recruitments by the end of the year. At the end of a rigorous selection process, the candidates will receive a comprehensive training programme entirely financed by Air France. They will join a training school for a 24-month theoretical and practical flight training course that includes several assessments. Candidates who successfully pass the various stages will join Air France or its subsidiary Transavia as First Officers. The cadet pilot programme is open to candidates without any previous flight experience. It is designed to inspire professional vocations among candidates from all backgrounds and to promote diversity. With 13% of female cadets in the 2019 programme versus 9% of female pilots at the company, the cadet programme encourages women to access technical professions and illustrates Air France’s commitment to equal employment opportunities. The online application process will be open from 15 October to 20 November 2022 on the corporate.airfrance.com website. On-going recruitment of trained and experienced pilots With the ramp up of capacity, Air France also resumed the recruitment of trained and experienced pilots in 2021. 300 newly recruited pilots joined the company since the beginning of the year, to be joined by an additional 100 hires by end of 2022. https://corporate.airfrance.com/en/news/air-france-relaunches-its-cadet-pilot-programme-0 FAA Releases Vertiport Design Standards to Support the Safe Integration of Advanced Air Mobility Aircraft WASHINGTON − The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) today released new design guidelines for vertiports, infrastructure that will support Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) aircraft. The design standards will serve as the initial step to provide key information for airport owners, operators and infrastructure developers to begin development of facilities that will support operations of AAM aircraft that are electrically powered and take-off and land vertically. “Our country is stepping into a new era of aviation. These vertiport design standards provide the foundation needed to begin safely building infrastructure in this new era.” said Associate Administrator for Airports Shannetta Griffin, P.E. These Vertical Takeoff and Landing (VTOL) operations will transport passengers or cargo at lower altitudes in rural, urban and suburban areas. The design standards include critical information that designers and builders will need to follow to allow for safe takeoffs and landings. Some of those include: Safety-critical geometry and design elements: Dimensions for vertiport touchdown and liftoff areas, additional airspace needed for approach and departure paths and load-bearing capacity. In the future FAA anticipates a high rate of operations at many vertiports. Lighting, markings and visual aids: Guidelines on markings, lighting and visual aids that identify the facility as a vertiport. The FAA recommends the Vertiport Identification Symbol, as shown in the middle of the graphic below. Vertiport Identification Symbol Charging and electric infrastructure: Initial safety standards and guidelines for batteries and charging equipment that will be central to vertiports. On-airport vertiports: Requirements for airports looking to add vertiports to an existing commercial airport, including the distance a vertiport would have to be from a current runway. Elevated vertiports: Requirements and guidelines for vertiports that may be on top of existing structures. This vertiport guidance will be used until performance-based vertiport design guidance is developed. The final design standards are based on research conducted by the FAA, collaboration with industry partners and feedback from the public. The FAA held a virtual Industry Day on March 29, 2022, to discuss the draft standards it released in early 2022. https://www.faa.gov/newsroom/faa-releases-vertiport-design-standards-support-safe-integration-advanced-air-mobility California man gets prison for selling bogus aircraft parts LOS ANGELES (AP) — A Southern California man who previously went to prison for selling bogus aircraft parts was sentenced Monday to nearly four years in federal prison for doing it again, prosecutors said. Aman Khan, 73, of Riverside was given a 46-month term by a judge in Los Angeles who also ordered him to pay more than $1.5 million in restitution, the U.S. attorney's office said in a statement. Prosecutors said Khan made various counterfeit aircraft parts at his Riverside-based company, including wheel assemblies and turbine gas nozzles that had been ordered for NATO jets. He then submitted phony certification paperwork, according to a statement from the U.S. attorney's office. Khan pleaded guilty in June to two counts of fraud involving aircraft parts in interstate and foreign commerce. In selling phony and unapproved aircraft parts, Khan “consciously and recklessly caused a risk of death or serious bodily injury to aircraft passengers and to the general public,” according to his plea agreement. However, prosecutors didn't indicate whether any aircraft did have problems because of the bogus parts. Khan has previous convictions for aircraft parts fraud and export violations. In 1996, he was sentenced to 4 1/2 years in prison for crimes that included selling phony aircraft parts. Prosecutors alleged he returned to the same business after being released from prison in 2000. In 2005, he was sentenced to more than 15 1/2 years in federal prison for fraudulently selling aircraft parts and agreeing to sell parts for military jet fighters to China. At the time, prosecutors said he sold refurbished parts as new or claimed parts made of weaker aluminum were made of steel. https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/California-man-gets-prison-for-selling-bogus-17468861.php Pilots, cabin crew at Vistara now have more say in duty schedule The new system is set to provide more flexibility to the airline crew A pilot or a cabin crew can give preferences on early morning or late evening flights, frequency of layovers, time off from work, preferred night stop stations and specific flights Vistara airline has implemented a new fully automated mechanism to develop crew rosters for management of its over 2,500 cabin crew and pilots across the network. The joint venture of Singapore Airlines and Tata Group has used a solution by Jeppesen, a Boeing company, to develop crew rosters that factor in legal compliance, crew availability, lifestyle preferences and training requirements. The new system is set to provide more flexibility to the airline crew, Vistara said. A pilot or a cabin crew can give preferences on early morning or late evening flights, frequency of layovers, time off from work, preferred night stop stations and specific flights etc. “Digital Solutions for Crew Rostering, while taking care of crew lifestyle preferences is a great example of how new-age digital technologies can greatly help to improve employee productivity and experience," Vinod Bhat, Chief Information Officer, Vistara said. The seven-year-old airline has a fleet of 53 aircraft, including 41 Airbus A320, five Airbus A321neo, five Boeing 737-800NG and two Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner aircraft. https://www.livemint.com/companies/news/pilots-cabin-crew-at-vistara-now-have-more-say-in-duty-schedule-11664195188851.html 500 additional parking spots, more than 600 balloon pilots, new special shapes coming to ABQ Balloon Fiesta • 648 balloon pilots are registered to take flight the first day of Balloon Fiesta ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Ahead of the 50th anniversary of the Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta, organizers announced new changes coming to the nine-day event (October 1 - 9, 2022). "We have 648 hot air balloons that are gonna be flying with us on Saturday morning," said Sam Parks, the director of operations for Balloon Fiesta. "That's actually the largest number of hot air balloons that we've had in over a decade." Balloon pilots from dozens of U.S. states and 21 countries will fill our skies with all shapes and sizes. "We have 120 special shapes, and, normally, we're about 100," Parks said. "We actually have 20 brand new special shapes that have never been seen here before." Organizers are anticipating this year to be busier than ever, so they added 500 new parking spaces on the north end of the park. Ahead of the fun, organizers are stressing safety. "There's nothing like looking up to the sky and seeing all these beautiful balloons. It's very easy as an adult to be looking up and that child walks away," Chris Padilla, the launch director of Balloon Fiesta, said. New Mexico State Police are handling "Tag your Tots," and will be at the north and south end of the park. Organizers said it's smart to put identification on your child's wrist with your phone number. Taking photos of what your kids are wearing helps too. Launch directors, who help each balloon crew lifts off and land safely, will be dressed as "zebras." "Let your child know that those of us that are in black and white uniforms that they can come up to us there if they're lost. We all have radios, we can transmit information about the lost child," Padilla said. https://www.koat.com/article/balloon-fiesta-special-shapes-parking/41396714 Sunwing union opposes Canadian carrier's plans to hire foreign pilots Sept 25 (Reuters) - The union for Sunwing Airlines pilots said it is urging Canada's government to stop a plan by the Ontario-based leisure carrier to hire foreign pilots this winter to help cope with an expected holiday travel surge. Airline industry use of foreign pilots as aviation rebounds from the COVID-19 pandemic is sensitive for unions in Canada and the United States. Those unions want greater efforts to hire pilots from the airlines' home countries despite complaints of shortages. read more "It's a punch in the face," Barret Armann, president of the union local that represents Sunwing pilots, said of the plan to hire non-Canadian pilots, adding that Labor Minister Seamus O'Regan "needs to step in and stop this." Sunwing will apply with the government to bring in 65 pilots this winter as temporary foreign workers due partly to a "staffing issue" in the summer, according to a Unifor union local memo to pilots citing a meeting last week with airline management. Sunwing is in the midst of being acquired by Canada's second-largest carrier WestJet Airlines, owned by private equity firm Onex Corp . read more It was not clear whether Sunwing has started a formal process to hire foreign pilots. Sunwing did not reply to requests for comment. The memo described a job ad from Czech carrier SmartWings that said "foreign pilots will indeed work (in Canada) under our contract but be paid more than 75% of our pilots." The memo said Sunwing has available pilots in Canada. SmartWings did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Holiday air travel is forecast to boom after a pandemic-induced slump the past two years. Canadian airlines are bracing for a busy Christmas season, with Canada expected to further ease COVID-19 travel restrictions. read more Carriers in the United States and Canada cut thousands of flights this summer as a rebound in travel demand ran into labor shortages. The use of pilots as temporary foreign workers is rare compared with other sectors. In the first half of 2022, Canadian employers were granted permission to fill 32 pilot positions with temporary foreign workers, according to government data. By comparison, 48,485 temporary farm worker permits were issued over the same period. O'Regan met this month with Unifor and the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAMAW), which has a separate complaint about Sunwing giving work to foreigners. A spokeswoman for O'Regan said it was up to an employer to meet requirements to bring in temporary foreign workers. Air Canada's (AC.TO) CEO has said pilots are not an issue for the country's biggest airline. https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/sunwing-union-opposes-canadian-carriers-plans-hire-foreign-pilots-2022-09-25/ Jet Fuel Derived From Used Cooking Oil Certified Airworthy for Large-Scale Production in China A Chinese petroleum company just obtained an airworthiness certificate for their new biological jet fuel made of used cooking oil. It will be the first time that large scale production of bio jet fuel will serve the aviation industry in China after the first patch was sent to Airbus Tianjin on September 19th. The airworthiness certificate means that Sinopec can sell the bio-jet fuel produced at Sinopec Zhenhai Refinery to aviation operators nationwide. Aviation is one of the last remaining transportation sectors that still has no decisive alternative to fossil fuels. Western companies are also trialing bio-based fuels, including cooking oil. “With the airworthiness certificate, Sinopec can now sell bio-jet fuel to the entire civil aviation market, we will continue to expand the market and supply chain to build a full industry chain of bio-jet fuel,” said Mo Dingge, CEO of Sinopec Zhenhai Refinery. The refinery has an annual designed processing capacity of 100,000 tons and adopts Sinopec’s bio jet fuel production technology (SRJET) to produce the fuel. The plant’s first batch in June produced around 600 tons. Compared to traditional petroleum-based aviation kerosene, bio jet fuel can reduce carbon emissions by up to 50% throughout the entire lifecycle. China has strict standards for airworthiness certification, as in order to operate in the air space and runways of other countries, they must reach the same standards of safety as the other major air traffic bodies like FAA in the U.S., or EASA, in Europe. Beforehand, experts from the Airworthiness Certification Center of the Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) conducted on-site evaluations at the Refinery that covered all stages of operation, including production, quality assurance, and testing. Sinopec was testing used cooking oil jet fuel back in 2011, and the refinery has already obtained Asia’s first global sustainable aviation fuel certification issued by the Roundtable on Sustainable Biomaterials, a key pass for China’s bio jet fuel to enter the international market. https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/fuel-derived-from-used-cooking-oil-receives-airworthiness-certificate-for-chinas-first-large-scale-production-of-bio-jet-fuel/ Aircraft Parts Output Is Being Grounded by Worker Shortages MONTREAL/CHICAGO (Reuters) - Canada's Mitchell Aerospace has a booming business - and a shop-floor shortfall that is reverberating from Boeing to Airbus. The Montreal-based supplier of aircraft parts has an order backlog from clients such as Raytheon Technologies, as aircraft makers push to ramp up output after a two-year slump. Like other companies that supply precision cast parts for everything from landing gear to engine components, Mitchell Aerospace is facing a labor shortage expected to hobble plane production through 2023. "It's just a hurricane in the plant," said company President Guillermo Alonso. "There's just no time. It's just produce, produce, produce and find ways to improve your productivity." A slowing global economy has started to unwind some supply chain shortages that hit manufacturers and contributed to inflation. Demand for shipping and airfreight have softened, chip sales are slowing and used car prices in the United States are falling. But aircraft parts makers are still reeling from deep job cuts undertaken when planes were grounded during the pandemic, a sign of how uneven the supply chain crisis remains. In the United States, aerospace employment is 8.4% below its pre-pandemic level. In the province of Quebec, where Mitchell is located, the industry needs to fill 38,000 jobs in the next decade, according to industry trade group Aero Montreal. Major casting makers like Berkshire Hathaway Inc's Precision Castparts Corp and Pittsburgh-based Howmet Aerospace, which supply Boeing, Airbus and General Electric, are hiring after slashing staffing in 2020. But it takes time to train new hires. Boeing Chief Executive David Calhoun warned that labor will remain a bottleneck for the industry for years. "I don't see this getting resolved any time soon," Calhoun told a U.S. Chamber of Commerce conference this month. The problem is most acute in the highly labor intensive, hard to automate castings industry. In a recent Jefferies survey, nearly three-fourths of aerospace equipment makers cited castings as the largest source of shortages. Privately-held Mitchell Aerospace is encouraging staff to take overtime, raising wages by 4.75%, and offering workers referral bonuses. It is also trying to hire more women, immigrants and refugees from Ukraine. Some casting suppliers are taking as much as 72 weeks to fill in orders, said David Wireman, a managing director at AlixPartners. Rising interest rates and mounting economic uncertainty are making companies wary about ramping up capacity, given concerns that demand could collapse, he said. "It is going to be a rocky time for quite a while." ‘IT’S ALL LABOR’ Meanwhile, the struggle to find workers is rippling through the supply chain, delaying jet engine and aircraft production at a time when much of the air travel market is booming. Leesta Industries, a Mitchell customer, is also wrestling with delays and quality problems from a different castings producer. When that producer delivers a month late, Montreal-based Leesta, which makes engine and landing gear components, must adjust to meet its own deadlines, said President Ernie Staub. "Your actual lead time of your product has been hurt by a month. You have to be ahead on the rest of your work," he said. Raytheon recently said tight supplies of castings has left it operating "hand-to-mouth," warning that delivery of some Pratt & Whitney large commercial engines might slip into the first quarter of 2023. The company did not specify the previous timeline for the deliveries. Rival GE said supply shortages have made it harder to deliver engines on time. Their customers are feeling the pinch. Airbus' production target has declined, while Boeing warned supply chain pressures have capped its ability to ramp up output. Mitchell's Montreal factory starts humming before sunrise with workers in protective gear filling mold sections with a mix of fine sand and a bonding agent. The whirring and grinding stops by mid-afternoon with no workers for a second shift. "It's all labor," said Alonso, who is looking for shop workers and metallurgists. "We have the demand." Mitchell can only pass on about half of its higher costs to customers. Automating a part of Mitchell's sand casting production by next year could address some labor issues, higher costs and allow for growth, Alonso said. He sees robots replacing a job in which a worker must remove debris from castings. The work is repetitive and the part is at risk of damage in the process. "We haven't pulled the trigger on the investment yet," Alonso said, "but it's a necessity." https://money.usnews.com/investing/news/articles/2022-09-27/aircraft-parts-output-is-being-grounded-by-worker-shortages Southwest Airlines hired a record 3,000 flight attendants so far this year • Southwest said it has another 7,000 flight attendant candidates in its hiring pipeline. • The airline and others are in a fierce battle for airline employees to cater to a rebound in travel. • The hires come as the flight attendants’ union and management hit roadblocks in talks for a new contract. Southwest Airlines has hired and trained 3,000 flight attendants so far this year, nearly triple its record cabin crew member hiring in all of 2018, the carrier told staff last week. Southwest and other airlines are still racing to hire and train staff to cater to a rebound in travel demand, which executives expect to hold up this fall, led by strong leisure bookings. Airlines were prohibited from laying off staff during the Covid pandemic under the terms of a $54 billion federal bailout but were allowed to offer employees extended leaves of absence or early retirement. Southwest said it currently has more than 62,000 full-time equivalent employees. That’s more than the 60,800 it had at the end of 2019, before the pandemic. Southwest has also hosted three “Hiring Blitzes” at its corporate campus in Dallas, where flight attendant candidates are interviewed, perform physical performance standards tests and other screenings with a potential for on-the-spot contingent job offers. Another is scheduled for this week, Southwest said in an employee memo last week. The carrier told staff that it has 7,000 flight attendant candidates in its hiring pipeline and that its attrition rate among new cabin crew members has dropped to 2.5% compared with 6.1% in 2019. The hiring spree comes as Southwest flight attendants’ union and management have been locked in contract negotiations. Talks with a federal mediator are set to begin Nov. 1 in Dallas, according to the memo. Southwest and United Airlines flight attendants, which are represented by the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA, are set to picket at major airports on Tuesday to demand better working conditions. Separately on Monday, Southwest announced it was promoting its chief commercial officer, Andrew Watterson, to replace COO Mike Van de Ven, who will become an “executive advisor” for the airline in 2023. https://www.cnbc.com/2022/09/26/southwest-airlines-hired-a-record-3000-flight-attendants-so-far-this-year.html ISASI’s PACIFIC NORTHWEST REGIONAL CHAPTER PRESENTS A FALL KICK-OFF EVENT! Your leadership has organized a Fall Kick-Off meeting of ISASI’s Pacific Northwest Regional Chapter to be held on Tuesday, November 1st, at Anthony’s HomePort in Des Moines, WA (421 South 227th St.) from 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm. This is a special event sponsored by our Chapter – and we encourage you and your associates to attend. Our featured guest speaker will be Steve Demko, newly-elected President of the U.S. Society, who will discuss improved communication among regional chapters and the effective transfer of knowledge between ISASI’s U.S. membership and internationally as well. His goal is to spark a greater interest in becoming an ISASI Member. Our Chapter will provide heavy hors d’oeuvres, along with a no-host bar. Registration for the event is $10 per person payable in advance. After October 21st, the fee will be $15 at the door on the day of the event. Please RSVP to Gary Morphew, PNRC President, indicating your intended attendance and whether payment will be made beforehand via check or at the door on November 1st. Checks should be made payable to: Intl Soc of Air Safety Invest – PNRC and directed to: Gary Morphew, 1303 Kayu Ln., Centralia, WA 98531. We look forward to welcoming our members, associates and friends to participate in a great opportunity to meet Steve Demko, offer any insights into building a stronger U.S. Society network and exchange with others who are part of this region’s aviation safety community. Please put November 1st on your calendars. We’ll look forward to seeing you! Your Pacific Northwest Regional Chapter officers: Gary Morphew, President Masood Karim, Vice President Jeanne Elliott, Secretary/Treasure GRADUATE RESEARCH SURVEY Dear Pilots and Flight Attendants, Did you know that the difference between a 14-hour flight time and an 18-hour flight time is 28%, which means 28% more exposure by occupants to the cabin environment and other aircraft influences. Keeping this in mind, I am working on a new research study that aims to review current Health & Safety International and National Regulations and best practices for operating Ultra-Long-Range Routes (ULR). ULR operations refer to "An operation involving any sector between a specific city pair (A-B-A) in which the planned flight time exceeds 16 hours, taking into account mean wind conditions and seasonal changes. The scope of this study is to identify different health-related factors affecting Aircrew (Pilots & Flight Attendants) who operate these routes. Based on this review, a gap analysis will be conducted, and recommendations will be presented to mitigate health and safety-related impact factors on Aircrew. As a part of this study, a survey is designed for Aircrew (Pilots and Flight Attendants) who operate on ULR flights. This survey aims to learn about their experience and the different health and safety impact factors that Aircrew experience while operating these routes. Aircrew sought to participate in this study needs to meet the following criteria: - Employed (in the last 24 months) by an air carrier operating scheduled ULR flights (>16hrs); - Qualified as an aircrew member to operate ULR flights. During this study, you will be asked to complete a brief online survey about your opinions concerning health-related issues while operating ULR routes. You will answer several questions about different health-related factors and how it affects your lifestyle, including any prominent experiences you have encountered. The completion of the survey will take approximately 15-20 minutes. If you meet the criteria and are interested in helping, sign up for the study by clicking the link - https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/SV2D9KT You can also sign up by scanning the QR code below. Please let me know if you have any questions I can answer. Thank you for your participation Kind Regards, Aditya Rathi ISASI Robertson Fellow M.S. Safety Science '22 (Aviation Safety) Embry Riddle Aeronautical University, Prescott rathia@my.erau.edu | (928)-632-2707 Curt Lewis