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Air Touring Safety Issues Linger AeroSafety WORLD MAKING THE CALL Doctor-pilot relations SIX-G ARRIVAL Copilot trainee error DIVE-AND-DRIVE Arguing the merits AIR TOURING SAFETY ISSUES LINGER THE JOURNAL OF FLIGHT SAFETY FOUNDATION JUNE 2014 Multiple Aviation Industry Segments, One Message: Safety. f the entire aviation industry should collaborate on one thing, it is safety. IAt a time of constrained resources, increased regulation and unprecedented scrutiny, the Flight Safety Foundation continues to be the leading advocate for safety and prevention of accidents, thereby saving lives. Show your commitment to the aviation community’s core value — a strong, e ective global safety culture. Join the Flight Safety Foundation. “Honeywell has been a partner with the Flight Safety Foundation (FSF) for more than 40 years in supporting the FSF mission to continuously improve fl ight safety.” — Don Bateman, Honeywell Corporate Fellow and Chief Engineer- Technologist for Flight Safety Systems and Technology Flight Safety Foundation Member Enrollment Membership/Donations/Endowments BARS Program O ce Headquarters: Ahlam Wahdan Susan M. Lausch Level 6 | 278 Collins Street 801 N. Fairfax Street, Suite 400 membership services coordinator managing director of membership Melbourne VIC 3000 Australia Alexandria, Virginia U.S. 22314-1774 Tel.: ext. 102 and business development GPO Box 3026 Tel.: +1 703.739.6700 membership@ ightsafety.org Tel.: ext. 112 Melbourne VIC 3001 Australia Fax: +1 703.739.6708 lausch@ ightsafety.org Tel.: +61 1300 557 162 Fax: +61 1300 557 182 ightsafety.org Email: bars@ ightsafety.org PRESIDENT’SMESSAGE NEXT Move hen the position of president and groups representing governments, airlines and CEO of Flight Safety Foundation safety, we will come up with a practical solution. became available, it was immediately FSF recently published the Duty/Rest Guide- appealing to me. I recently had re- lines for Business Aviation, which updates the Wtired from International Aero Engines and was landmark “Principles and Guidelines For Duty debating my next move. I’ve spent my entire and Rest Scheduling in Corporate and Business career in aviation, in roles that focused on safety Aviation,” published by the FSF Fatigue Coun- and quality as well as positions in marketing and termeasures Task Force in 1997. The Duty/Rest sales. The opportunity to work at the Foundation update is the culmination of a joint effort by FSF and lead this team was irresistible. and the National Business Aviation Association As anyone who has spent time in aviation Safety Committee’s Fatigue Task Force, led by knows, Flight Safety Foundation is the voice of Leigh White. This is available on our website at safety. It is the conscience of the industry. While <flightsafety.org/dutyrest2014>. many great organizations work on safety, there is We also are due to finish our go-around study not another group out there whose sole focus is on within the next few months, and we will release aviation safety. Safety is the mission of the Foun- a report outlining the results of the study and dation and has been since its founding in 1947. including recommendations to the industry. We’ll One of our challenges in 2014 and in the future soon be determining the next steps for this project is the belief that the industry has succeeded in its and how the findings can best be used. safety mission. We are safe. I won’t argue about We have great challenges ahead of us, but FSF that, and we all should be proud of our industry’s has always been there as the voice of safety, and record. But we cannot lose our focus. As we await with the support of our members, we’ll continue the final reports on Asiana 214 and UPS 1354, and to serve in this vital role. as the tragedy of Malaysia 370 continues to unfold, we are reminded that safety is never “done.” FSF is teaming up with the International Civil Aviation Organization and the International Air Transport Association to hold a symposium on global aircraft tracking. It isn’t acceptable to lose an airplane, especially with the technology available and in development. We don’t have the answers Jon L. Beatty as to what should be done, but we do know that if President and CEO we bring together the technological experts with Flight Safety Foundation FLIGHTSAFETY.ORG | AEROSAFETYWORLD | JUNE 2014 | 1 AeroSafetyWORLD contents June 2014 Vol 9 Issue 5 features 8 InSight | Continuous Descent Approaches 16 Cover Story | Air Tours Assessment 20 SummitsBASS | Airman Medical Certificates 26 MaintenanceMatters | Fatigue-Conscious Behavior 16 29 FlightTraining | Refining MPL Programs 20 35 CausalFactors | Ground Idle on Final 39 StrategicIssues | Weather Research Paths departments 1 President’s Message | Next Move 5 Editorial Page | Child Restraint Devices 7 Safety Calendar | Industry Events 2 | FLIGHT SAFETY FOUNDATION | AEROSAFETYWORLD | JUNE 2014 26 29 35 12 In Brief | Safety News 44 DataLink | Newly Harmonized Data 47 Info Scan | Data Review 51 On Record | Engine Fire on Night Takeoff 39 AeroSafetyWORLD telephone: +1 703.739.6700 Frank Jackman, editor-in-chief, FSF director of publications [email protected], ext. 116 About the Cover Report says U.S. air tour industry must address problem areas. Wayne Rosenkrans, senior editor [email protected], ext. 115 © Nelson Santiago | Depositphotos Linda Werfelman, senior editor [email protected], ext. 122 We Encourage Reprints (For permissions, go to <flightsafety.org/aerosafety-world-magazine>) Mark Lacagnina, contributing editor [email protected] Share Your Knowledge 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 Jennifer Moore, art director glad to consider it. Send it to Director of Publications Frank Jackman, 801 N. Fairfax St., Suite 400, Alexandria, VA 22314-1774 USA or [email protected]. [email protected] 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 payment is made to the author upon publication. Susan D. Reed, production specialist Sales Contact [email protected], ext. 123 Emerald Media Cheryl Goldsby, [email protected] +1 703.737.6753 Kelly Murphy, [email protected] +1 703.716.0503 Subscriptions: All members of Flight Safety Foundation automatically get a subscription to AeroSafety World magazine. For more information, please contact the membership department, Flight Safety Foundation, 801 N. Fairfax St., Suite 400, Alexandria, VA 22314-1774 USA, +1 703.739.6700 or [email protected]. AeroSafety World © Copyright 2014 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. Nothing in these pages is intended to supersede operators’ or manufacturers’ policies, practices or requirements, or to supersede government regulations. | | FLIGHTSAFETY.ORG AEROSAFETYWORLD JUNE 2014 | 3 EDITORIALPAGE CHILD RESTRAINT Devices s parents, we’d all like to think that there is recommended restraints for lap-held children, nowhere safer for our children than in our “and we have been recommending it ever since,” arms, particularly when our kids are very Hersman said. young. And from a nurturing or develop- During the question-and-answer session Ament standpoint, this is probably true. But is it following her speech, she said, “I couldn’t have true during a high-speed rejected takeoff, clear air imagined in 2004 [when she joined the NTSB] turbulence or a runway excursion when accelera- that we’d still be talking about this issue in 2014.” tion g-forces come into play? She described it as one of the “great disappoint- When traveling by air, parents generally are ments” of her tenure on the board. allowed to hold the smallest children, those under As soon as we wrap up this issue of AeroSafety the age of 2 years, on their laps, obviating the need World, I will be headed to Madrid to attend the to buy an additional seat. However, in the United International Air Transport Association’s (IATA’s) States there are no restraining devices for lap-held Cabin Operations Safety Conference. Among the children that are approved for use during takeoff conference activities are two workshops — half and landing, so parents are expected to secure a day each — on child restraint devices. In its these children using only their arms. conference materials, IATA said it is seeking an In a speech April 21 at the National Press Club “internationally recognized solution on accepted in Washington, Deborah Hersman, then the outgo- child restraint devices with a solution that is prac- ing chairman of the U.S. National Transportation tical, affordable, operationally realistic, feasible Safety Board (NTSB), made the issue of lap-held and harmonized globally.” children one of the focal points of what were es- I’m looking forward to the discussion, and I sentially her farewell remarks. “Some people say the hope that a solution to the issue is on the horizon. risk is small,” Hersman said. “I tell them, ‘No, a baby is small.’ We secure laptops and coffeepots, yet we do not secure our most precious cargo, our children.” In the late 1970s, NTSB recommended that the Federal Aviation Administration research and initiate a rulemaking on the restraint of Frank Jackman small children. After the crash of United Airlines Editor-in-Chief Flight 232 at Sioux City, Iowa, 25 years ago, NTSB AeroSafety World FLIGHTSAFETY.ORG | AEROSAFETYWORLD | JUNE 2014 | 5 Serving Aviation Safety Interests for More Than 65 Years OFFICERS AND STAFF ince 1947, Flight Safety Foundation has helped save lives around the world. The Chairman Foundation is an international non-profit organization whose sole purpose is to Board of Governors David McMillan provide impartial, independent, expert safety guidance and resources for the President and CEO Jon L.
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