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Aerosafety World March 2012 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. Voss, president and CEO Share Your Knowledge Flight Safety Foundation If you have an article proposal, manuscript or technical paper that you believe would make a useful contribution to the ongoing dialogue about aviation safety, we will be glad to consider it. Send it to Director of Publications J.A. Donoghue, 801 N. Fairfax St., Suite 400, Alexandria, VA 22314-1774 USA or [email protected]. J.A. Donoghue, EAB executive secretary The publications staff reserves the right to edit all submissions for publication. Copyright must be transferred to the Foundation for a contribution to be published, and Flight Safety Foundation payment is made to the author upon publication. Steven J. Brown, senior vice president–operations Sales Contact National Business Aviation Association Emerald Media Cheryl Goldsby, [email protected] +1 703.737.6753 Barry Eccleston, president and CEO Kelly Murphy, [email protected] +1 703.716.0503 Airbus North America Subscriptions: All members of Flight Safety Foundation automatically get a subscription to AeroSafety World magazine. For more information, please contact the Don Phillips, freelance transportation membership department, Flight Safety Foundation, 801 N. Fairfax St., Suite 400, Alexandria, VA 22314-1774 USA, +1 703.739.6700 or [email protected]. reporter AeroSafety World © Copyright 2012 by Flight Safety Foundation Inc. All rights reserved. ISSN 1934-4015 (print)/ ISSN 1937-0830 (digital). Published 11 times a year. Suggestions and opinions expressed in AeroSafety World are not necessarily endorsed by Flight Safety Foundation. Russell B. Rayman, M.D., executive director Nothing in these pages is intended to supersede operators’ or manufacturers’ policies, practices or requirements, or to supersede government regulations. Aerospace Medical Association, retired FLIGHTSAFETY.ORG | AEROSAFETYWORLD | MARCH 2012 | 3 Serving Aviation Safety Interests for More Than 60 Years OFFICERS AND Staff light Safety Foundation is an international membership organization dedicated to Chairman, Board of Governors Lynn Brubaker the continuous improvement of aviation safety. Nonprofit and independent, the Foundation was launched officially in 1947 in response to the aviation industry’s need President and CEO William R. Voss F for a neutral clearinghouse to disseminate objective safety information, and for a credible Chief Operating Officer Capt. Kevin L. Hiatt and knowledgeable body that would identify threats to safety, analyze the problems and General Counsel and Secretary Kenneth P. Quinn, Esq. recommend practical solutions to them. Since its beginning, the Foundation has acted in the public interest to produce positive influence on aviation safety. Today, the Foundation provides Treasurer David J. Barger leadership to more than 1,075 individuals and member organizations in 130 countries. ADMINIstratIVE Manager, Support Services and Executive Assistant Stephanie Mack MemberGuide Flight Safety Foundation MEMBERSHIP AND BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT Headquarters: 801 N. Fairfax St., Suite 400, Alexandria VA 22314-1774 USA tel: +1 703.739.6700 fax: +1 703.739.6708 Senior Director of Membership and flightsafety.org Business Development Susan M. 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