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Aerosafety World February 2012 AeroSafety WORLD SAFETY IMPROVES Record 2011 accident rate FATIGUE REVIEW Measures, study and rules SNOW BOMBS CHECKS MISSED WEIGHT MISTAKE Winter ‘hurricanes’ LOST ROTOR INPUT ERROR North Sea fatal accident THE JOURNAL OF FLIGHT SAFETY FOUNDATION FEBRUARY 2012 Registration Open CASS APRIL 18–19, 2012 57TH ANNUAL CORPORATE AVIATION SAFETY SEMINAR SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS For details, visit our Web site at flightsafety.org. To advertise in AeroSafety World Magazine, contact Emerald Media. To register or exhibit at the seminar, contact Namratha Apparao, Cheryl Goldsby Kelly Murphy tel.: +1.703.739.6700, ext. 101, [email protected]. [email protected] [email protected] To sponsor an event, contact Kelcey Mitchell, ext. 105, [email protected]. tel: +1 703 737 6753 tel: +1 703 716 0503 To receive membership information, contact Susan Lausch, ext. 112, [email protected]. PRESIDENT’SMESSAGE Gathering Storm lot of people who read this column spend our avionics to a modern digital standard, we their days looking for the next safety threat could have a better and safer system than we have to their airline, their flight, their mainte- today while likely using only a few percent of the nance shop or so on, focused on the micro spectrum band presently allocated to aviation. Alevel. I guess my contribution is to look for broader This is especially true for voice communica- safety threats to the industry, a macro view. Let me tion. The bad news is that efforts to move from see if I can describe such a threat that many may analog to digital over the last few decades have not see coming. been blocked by bickering countries, competing We got a glimpse of the gathering storm engineers and the next best idea. The U.S. NextGen recently with the LightSquared debacle in the and European SESAR programs re-inventing air United States. This is a political disaster of epic traffic control technology would normally be the proportions that I don’t want to get in the middle place to look for a solution, but right now those of, but I’ll try to summarize the situation. Basically, programs are struggling with massive budget cuts a really big company spent billions of dollars get- and fiscal uncertainty. Bold new digital standards ting government approval to deploy a new wireless and 20-year transition plans are not likely to be at mobile broadband network in a frequency band the front of their agenda. near the global positioning system signal space. So there lies the safety threat that reaches On paper, the company thought it worked, but beyond crowded airport frequency congestion. when tested with existing receivers in the real We are about a decade late starting transition to world, it didn’t. Politicians and lawyers probably a new aviation communication digital standard will spend the next decade figuring out what went that does not yet exist. To keep the system safe, wrong and who pays. the right technologies have to be identified and This mess should remind us that the global the transition carefully planned. Efforts to do that aviation industry depends on telecommunica- during better times have failed. If we are lucky, the tions, and we are hanging onto a massive amount global aviation industry may get one more chance of incredibly valuable radio spectrum. It is almost to chart its own course through this transition. If impossible to conceive how valuable this spectrum we don’t, the rest of the world, hungry for more is. But consider this possibility: The spectrum we frequencies, will force the change upon us; the hold may well be worth more than the value of economic cost of inaction will be unbearable. the entire global aviation industry. I am talking To transition safely, we have to end the gridlock trillions of dollars. Every time somebody creates now. It would be a good time for somebody to lead. a new broadband app, or a teenager runs up her phone bill texting, the value of that spectrum goes up. The LightSquared case serves as a warning. Our spectrum is becoming incredibly valuable, and at some point we will not be able to hang onto it. William R. Voss Of course nobody wants aviation to go away. President and CEO But patience is wearing thin. If we moved all of Flight Safety Foundation FLIGHTSAFETY.ORG | AEROSAFETYWORLD | FEBRUARY 2012 | 1 AeroSafetyWORLD contents February 2012 Vol 7 Issue 1 features 12 CoverStory | A340 Weight Input Error 16 Safety Regulation | Final U.S. Fatigue Rule 12 20 SafetyCulture | Unfailing Fatigue Reports 24 HumanFactors | Scientific Scheduling 16 29 2011 Review | Drop in Accident Rate 33 FirstPerson | Never Give Up 36 HelicopterSafety | AS332 Gearbox Failure 41 StrategicIssues | Linguistic Crash Investigation 47 ThreatAnalysis | Winter Hurricanes departments 1 President’sMessage | Gathering Storm 5 EditorialPage | Surprise! 7 Executive’sMessage | Foundation Operations 29 8 SafetyCalendar | Industry Events 9 InBrief | Safety News 2 | FLIGHT SAFETY FOUNDATION | AEROSAFETYWORLD | FEBRUARY 2012 Legend Overcast Sky obscured 40-kt wind blowing from west Warm front Cold front Occluded front Isobar Canada 964 964 millibars (28.47 in Hg) Heavy snow 18 18° F/8° C temperature 15 15° F/9° C dew point 47 18 15 L 964 Atlantic Ocean 968 972 36 41 976 980 United States AeroSafetyWORLD 984 telephone: +1 703.739.6700 23 FoundationFocus | BARS Update William996 R. Voss, publisher,992 988 FSF president and CEO [email protected] 26 LeadersLog | Deborah A.P. Hersman J.A. Donoghue, editor-in-chief, FSF director of publications 51 DataLink | Accidents in Alaska [email protected], ext. 116 Mark Lacagnina, senior editor 53 Info Scan | Safety in Numbers [email protected], ext. 114 Wayne Rosenkrans, senior editor 57 OnRecord | Off Into the Mud [email protected], ext. 115 Linda Werfelman, senior editor [email protected], ext. 122 Rick Darby, associate editor [email protected], ext. 113 Karen K. Ehrlich, webmaster and production coordinator [email protected], ext. 117 Ann L. Mullikin, art director and designer About the Cover [email protected], ext. 120 The crew of this Emirates A340-500 didn’t catch the weight input error. Susan D. 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