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Flight Comment Issue 2, 2020 National Défense Defence nationale ISSUE 2, 2020 LESSONS LEARNED Your Signature FROM THE FLIGHT SURGEON Flight Safety and COVID-19 VIEWS ON FLIGHT SAFETY Commander of the Royal Canadian Air Force Cover – Corporal Stephanie Patz from 12 (Vancouver) Field Ambulance flies in a CH149 Cormorant from Vancouver Airport to Victoria Airport, where members will continue on to Quebec, to deploy on Operation LASER, 9 May 2020. Is the Juice Worth... 25 The Most Valuable Day 27 Photo: Private Daniel Pereira, CBG 39 Public Affairs Losing Awareness... 29 Your Signature 30 CH148 Cyclone... 32 Polaris CC15001... 34 TABLE OF CONTENTS Issue 2, 2020 Regular Columns Views on Flight Safety 4 The Editor’s Corner 5 Good Show 6 For Professionalism 10 From the Flight Surgeon 12 Maintenance in Focus 14 DFS Commendation 16 On Track 17 Dossiers 20 Lessons Learned 27 From the Investigator 32 Epilogue 34 The Back Page 36 Lessons Learned The Most Valuable Day 27 Losing Situational Awareness 29 Your Signature 30 DIRECTORATE OF THE CANADIAN ARMED Send submissions to: To contact DFS personnel on FLIGHT SAFETY FORCES FLIGHT SAFETY an URGENT flight safety issue, MAGAZINE Directorate of Flight Safety please call an investigator who is Director of Flight Safety Attn: Editor – Flight Comment available 24 hours a day at Colonel John Alexander Flight Comment is produced up to four times 60 Moodie Drive 1‑888‑927‑6337 (WARN‑DFS). a year by the Directorate of Flight Safety. Carling Campus CFB O‑G Editor The contents do not necessarily reflect Building 7N.2.C19.21 Visit the DFS web page at Col (Retd) Steve Charpentier official policy and, unless otherwise stated, Ottawa, ON, Canada K1A OK2 www.rcaf‑arc.forces.gc.ca/en/flight‑safety. Imagery Technician should not be construed as regulations, Corporal Bev Dunbar and orders or directives. Contributions, comments Telephone: 613‑901‑7698 Flight Comment magazines and Corporal Kyle Morris and criticism are welcome. Contributions Email: [email protected] flight safety posters are available become the property of Flight Comment and on the flightcomment.ca website. Graphics and design may be edited for content, length or format. This publication or its contents d2k Graphic Design & Web may not be reproduced without the editor’s approval. ISSN 0015‑3702 A‑JS‑000‑006/JP‑000 Views on Flight Safety by LGen A.D. Meinzinger, Commander Royal Canadian Air Force he onset of COVID-19 has presented passengers. Maintenance and support Keep a good lookout for your buddies around the Royal Canadian Air Force with a personnel have also had to learn to operate with you. Do not hesitate to ask questions or T series of challenges these last few the additional consideration of appropriate PPE. challenge something that, to you, may not months that few could have ever foreseen. In the training communities we have had to seem quite right. These interventions must not Without exception, CWO Gaudreault and I pause our training operations and must now be regarded as challenges to authority, but have witnessed, across the whole of our re-engage in a safe and efficient manner. This rather a reflection of a healthy and respectful Air Force, personnel rising to this challenge means that we must address skill erosion, or environment in which our primary concern is and supporting their fellow members and skill fade, and learn again to crawl or walk always the welfare of our personnel and the Canadians at large. I could not be prouder before running at full speed within our force preservation of our valuable resources. And do of your response than I am now as your generation and training enterprise. not hesitate to seek out the advice of those Commander as together we tackle this around you, even if it is something with which Only you are best able to assess the emotional unique generational challenge. you were normally very familiar with prior to and physical burden that COVID-19 has had us entering this new paradigm. Some areas of our Air Force have had to upon you. This has been a taxing period for all maintain operations throughout the COVID-19 of us. CWO Gaudreault and I look to everyone, I cannot foretell the challenges that will still pandemic while other areas have stood down whether it is our aircrew, our maintenance lie ahead of us in the coming months and/or for an extended period of time. Others have and support personnel, or those within the years. I have no doubt however that going had to learn to work from home with all of the supervisory chain of command to properly forward this new normal would have seemed unique challenges that presents. All of us have assess and lookout for each other as we ramp up completely abnormal to anyone who could had to manage great uncertainty both within our operations and training to our full potential. have foreseen this, as recently as December of our families and at work. Understand that your proficiency may not be last year. My confidence in you to hold up the at the same level as it was prior to COVID-19. values of our Flight Safety system and the hard As we look to resume our full flying program in The time required to complete what otherwise lessons learned from the generations that have support of the Canadian Armed Forces mission, would have been a routine task, may take you a come before us will position us to address and we must remain vigilant to ensure the safety of little longer. And it's okay if you need to refer overcome the challenges that lie ahead. our personnel and resources. In all communities, back to manuals or checklists to ensure that you we have had to adjust our flying operations to don't miss a step. That's why we have them. incorporate appropriate PPE for aircrew and Photo: LS Erica Seymour, 4 Wing Imaging 4 Flight Comment — Issue 2, 2020 Editor’sThe Corner keep telling myself and everyone around in a huge decrease in the loss of life or assets. me that maintaining a "zero accident" To protect the gains we have made, we cannot I standard in the Royal Canadian Air Force afford to lower our guard. The many threats to (RCAF) is feasible. If we can do it for one year, aviation safety are still lurking around, hidden then why can't we do it for multiple years? in every corner of our organisation, waiting for I don’t want people to admit that crashes our vigilance to weaken. and fatalities are inevitable and part of this business and I don’t want anyone to lower This edition of Flight Comment is also clearly their guard or shift their focus from flight stamped with the current COVID-19 pandemic Photo: Cpl Dominic Duchesne-Beaulieu Dominic Cpl Photo: safety and risk management. However, the concern. The views from the RCAF Commander ugly truth is that despite having a great Flight highlight the need for us to look out for each other and to take the time to adapt to this new Safety Program, with personnel who believe need for standard agreements (STANAG) operating environment. A poster realized by in the program and take safety seriously, there between our Nations. The center middle page our DFS team of very capable image specialists are still parts of the accident equation that we includes a Just Culture matrix that shows how is provided to remind everyone of the danger do not fully understand, cannot foresee or to assess individual Just Culture accountability. of skill erosion. If you have been away from control and accidents still occur. With each It is meant to be detached and posted in your your profession for a while, take your time mishap, however, we have an opportunity Squadron or office. The CAF Flight Safety Program to do things right. to learn so that we can keep reinforcing our is based on the primacy of having a Just Culture. program to find better ways to enhance risk This magazine includes several lessons learned Hopefully, this matrix will help everyone management to prevent future occurrences. articles and showcases outstanding actions understand the line between acceptable and Our goal as an organisation will always be to from our personnel to prevent accidents. unacceptable actions or activities. maintain a zero-accident standard while Congratulations to all the recipients of In the last edition we challenged you with continuing to enable mission success. Flight Safety awards. our Find the Difference puzzle. Thanks to This issue of Flight Comment is dedicated to The ICP School, has produced an excellent everyone who participated. Those who the crew of Stalker 22 and to the team member article helping us demystify the new NOTAM submitted their answers to us will receive of Snowbird 11 who were fatally injured system. These articles are always extremely a Flight Safety promotion item. during Operation REASSURANCE and Operation popular as they answer questions that many My final note is to thank Major Claire Maxwell INSPIRATION. It is of prime importance for the pilots have related to the intricacies of flight for her numerous years of dedicated service RCAF to investigate all accidents to identify procedures. Another article highlights the to the cause of Flight Safety. In recent years, effective preventive measures that will either 50th anniversary of QETE. This organisation she was holding, often alone, the helm of the prevent or reduce the risk of similar occurrences. has been a key and incredibly reliable partner Flight Comment magazine and did a fantastic The Director of Flight Safety / Airworthiness over the years for DFS and has contributed job.
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