AeroSafety WORLD MAINTENANCE FATIGUE Awareness training needed MANAGING ANOMALIES Cockpit cooperation essential VISUALIZING SAFETY Turning data into pictures DISORIENTATION, POOR CRM TOXIC CAPTAINS Cockpit unhappy, unsafe SPIRAL DIVE THE JOURNAL OF FLIGHT SAFETY FOUNDATION MARCH 2012 ESEXECUTIVE’SXMEECUTIVE’ MESSAGESSAGE Value Proposition n the last issue, I wrote about some of the high Look for the new membership structure to be points of what we are doing at Flight Safety unveiled about October, and please think about Foundation. This month, I am going to go a your budget in order to join for 2013. You are go- little deeper into our operations and how we ing to hear me say this many times: If you have to Iare able to function. First off, the support of our choose one safety resource to keep you in touch members is very valuable, and if you are one, we with what is taking place in the industry, Flight thank you! If you aren’t, then you should be. The Safety Foundation is the one. largest amount of our operating budget comes The other area that I would like to draw your from members’ support. The technical projects, attention to is our outreach activities. Outreach research, advocacy, safety communication and keeps our members and the aviation/aerospace shaping of safety culture and policy come from the industry informed on current hot topics such as support you provide through your membership. lessons learned from an incident or accident, and As a matter of fact, 47 percent of the Founda- on the long-range issues that need our attention. tion’s operating funds come from all entities of While our outreach activities do not directly con- membership support. When I say all entities, I stitute a large percentage of the contributions to mean the individuals, institutions, governments, our operating funds, they are very important to manufacturers, corporations, students, business maintain our visibility as an effective, impartial, aviation operations, airlines, airports, and the independent and international organization. maintenance, repair and overhaul facilities that We do a variety of interviews with print, constitute our membership. radio and television media. Bill Voss, our chief Later this year, the Foundation will roll out a executive officer, maintains an intensive sched- new membership structure and “value proposi- ule, traveling to locations all across the globe to tion” for each category of membership. Value attend and speak at industry conferences, visit proposition is a large part of what we believe a government and industry organizations, and call member should receive for their support. We are on our members. I also have increased my travel often told by many of our members that they be- as of late, doing the same; however, my main lieve that supporting the Foundation is the right function is to keep the offices running smoothly thing to do. After all, we have been an advocate and efficiently. for the best practices in aviation safety since 1947. The Foundation appreciates your support. However, others tell us that within their organiza- Be safe. tions they have to answer the question, “What do we get for our membership?” This newly defined value proposition will answer that question, and make it easier to make a case for supporting the Foundation. At the very minimum, you can tell those who ask that the information from the Foun- dation’s website and AeroSafety World magazine Capt. Kevin L. Hiatt keeps you on top of developments in the realm of Chief Operating Officer safety worldwide, but there’s more. Flight Safety Foundation FLIGHTSAFETY.ORG | AEROSAFETYWORLD | MARCH 2012 | 1 AeroSafetyWORLD contents March 2012 Vol 7 Issue 2 features 12 CoverStory | Spiral Dive Near Beirut 17 Maintenance Matters | Fatigue Awareness 17 20 SafetyCulture | IHTAR Anomaly Model 26 ThreatAnalysis | Extraterrestrial Debris 20 28 SafetyOversight | Safety Data Visualization 34 SafetyRegulation | Making Room for UAS 39 FlightDeck | The Toxic Captain 43 TrafficControl | Rapid ATSAP Report Growth 45 HelicopterSafety | HEMS Pilots’ Weather Decisions 26 departments 1 Executive’sMessage | Value Proposition 5 EditorialPage | The Rare Go-Around 7 SafetyCalendar | Industry Events 9 InBrief | Safety News 2 | FLIGHT SAFETY FOUNDATION | AEROSAFETYWORLD | MARCH 2012 43 28 34 AeroSafetyWORLD telephone: +1 703.739.6700 49 DataLink | LOSA Audit of IranAir William R. Voss, publisher, FSF president and CEO [email protected] 52 Info Scan | NextGen-SESAR Interoperability J.A. Donoghue, editor-in-chief, FSF director of publications 57 OonRec rd | Taxiway Takeoff [email protected], ext. 116 Mark Lacagnina, senior editor [email protected], ext. 114 Wayne Rosenkrans, senior editor [email protected], ext. 115 Linda Werfelman, senior editor [email protected], ext. 122 Rick Darby, associate editor [email protected], ext. 113 Ka ren K. Ehrlich, webmaster and production coordinator [email protected], ext. 117 Ann L. Mullikin, art director and designer About the Cover [email protected], ext. 120 This 737 flew a meandering path before plummeting into the Mediterranean. Susan D. Reed, production specialist © Thomas Ingendorn/Jetphotos.net [email protected], ext. 123 Editorial Advisory Board David North, EAB chairman, consultant We Encourage Reprints (For permissions, go to <flightsafety.org/aerosafety-world-magazine>) William R. 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