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Focus 64.Pdf ON COMMERCIAL AVIATION SAFETY AUTUMN 2006 ISSUE 64 THE OFFICIAL PUBLICATION OF THE ISSN 1355-1523 UNITED KINGDOM FLIGHT1 SAFETY COMMITTEE The Official Publication of THE UNITED KINGDOM FLIGHT SAFETY COMMITTEE ISSN: 1355-1523 AUTUMN 2006 ON COMMERCIAL AVIATION SAFETY FOCUS is a quarterly subscription journal devoted to the promotion of best practises in contents aviation safety. It includes articles, either original or reprinted from other sources, related Editorial 2 to safety issues throughout all areas of air transport operations. Besides providing information on safety related matters, FOCUS Chairman’s Column 3 aims to promote debate and improve networking within the industry. It must be emphasised that FOCUS is not intended as a substitute for regulatory information or company The Sweet Spot, or did you really get away with that landing 4 publications and procedures. by Alex Fisher, GAPAN Editorial Office: Ed Paintin Airport Safety When it comes to the Crunch, 5 The Graham Suite Fairoaks Airport, Chobham, Woking, It’s a Team Game! Surrey. GU24 8HX by Sue Scott - Manager, Safety for Airport Services, NATS Tel: 01276-855193 Fax: 01276-855195 e-mail: [email protected] Web Site: www.ukfsc.co.uk NATS Safety Notice 8 Office Hours: 0900 - 1630 Monday - Friday EXT 01/2006 Use of Satellite Phones to alert UK ATC of an RTF failure Advertisement Sales Office: UKFSC The Graham Suite, NATS Pilot RTF standards 9 Fairoaks Airport, Chobham, Woking, Surrey GU24 8HX Tel: 01276-855193 Fax: 01276-855195 UKFSC Members List 10 email: [email protected] Web Site: www.ukfsc.co.uk Office Hours: 0900 - 1630 Monday - Friday Flight Outside Controlled Airspace - A Guide 12 Printed by: by The BALPA ATS Study Group Woking Print & Publicity Ltd The Print Works, St. Johns Lye, St. Johns, Woking, Surrey GU21 1RS NATS Mode S in the London Terminal Control Centre 16 Tel: 01483-884884 Fax: 01483-884880 Bill Casey - NATS Adrian Price - NATS ISDN: 01483-598501 e-mail: [email protected] Web: www.wokingprint.com Airline Liabilities in a Sick World 19 FOCUS is produced solely for the purpose of by Peter Coles - BLG Hong Kong Office improving flight safety and, unless copyright is indicated, articles may be reproduced providing that the source of material is acknowledged. Reducing the Chance of a Mid-Air Collision in the 21 North Atlantic Opinions expressed by individual authors or in by Steve Kirby, Senior Research Analyst - NATS advertisements appearing in FOCUS are those of the author or advertiser and do not necessarily reflect the views and endorsements of this journal, the editor or the UK Flight Safety Annual Seminar 24 Committee. While every effort is made to ensure the accuracy of the information contained herein, FOCUS accepts no responsibility for any errors or omissions in the information, or its consequences. Specialist advice should always be sought in relation to any particular Front Cover Picture: Cessna 172 of Flight Images Aerial Photography Company circumstances. painted in high visibility dark blue/yellow paint scheme 1 Editorial Disruptive Passengers During the mid 1990s the number of with drugs, prescription or recreational. the event. This information and the Disruptive Passenger Incidents was Perhaps it is time to change the law to terminology is then used when writing starting to attract the attention of the include the effects of drugs and alcohol. their statement for the police. Often when airlines. The United Kingdom Flight providing their statements cabin staff Safety Committee formed the Disruptive This may take some time but it is worth subtly change information and this later Passenger Working Group to look into starting now before drugs become much provides a loophole for the accused when this issue and to make recommendations. more of a problem. they get to court. The result of this working group was the production of a “Guide to Handling The UK Airport Police Commanders Group Operators may have developed their own Disruptive Passengers”. on behalf of ACPO has recently launched a form that their cabin crew are new Disruptive Passenger Protocol. The required to use. It would be beneficial to In 1998 the UKFSC planned to hold its Commanders Group represents 59 airports compare these forms to ensure that the Annual Conference on the subject of in the United Kingdom and Northern company form does record all the Disruptive Passenger Behaviour. Just prior to Ireland. Many of these do not have a information required by the police. Or simply this Seminar in October, a cabin attendant permanent police presence and are to just accept the use of the police flying with a charter carrier was attacked on serviced from the local police station. designed form. board the aircraft and hit by a passenger with a bottle causing serious damage to her The national protocol is not a panacea to The Crown Prosecution Service recently person. This incident hit the news and the problem of disruptive passengers. It held a Seminar at Heathrow where issues attracted press attention to the Seminar. sets out a base line or standard through relating to how to make the framing of which the police and Crown Prosecution charges more effective were considered. During 1999 the UK Civil Aviation Authority can communicate and collaborate The CPS has taken over the role of charging started to collect disruptive passenger effectively with the industry throughout the from the police. The CPS are hoping that by information and introduced a form to collect country to prevent disruptive passenger framing the charges better and by collecting this information. The form was embraced behaviour and robustly enforce the law. all the relevant evidence they will be able to by the airlines with the aim of collecting secure more successful prosecutions. valuable information and as a means of The Airport Commanders Group cannot producing statistics previously not available. force airlines or airport authorities to act in It is unlikely that we will ever eliminate a particular way. What it can do is disruptive passenger events particularly The police introduced procedures for encourage local police commanders to sit as airports and operators continue to dealing with disruptive passengers when around the table with airport service serve alcohol before and on flights. In the aircraft landed. The resulting court partners to develop a constructive addition we are likely to see an increase cases had mixed results. working relationship and a clear in the use of recreational drugs, which memorandum of understanding. may cause a corresponding increase in The past six years have seen a steady disruptive behaviour. We must therefore rising number of Disruptive Passenger The fact that an airport does not have a make every effort to co-operate with both incidents mainly caused by the permanent police presence does not the police and the CPS to ensure a higher consumption of alcohol consumed prior to prevent the local police commander from rate of successful prosecutions. and during flight and the inability of implementing the new protocol. passengers to smoke on board the aircraft. Operators who have not had contact with the police at their UK destination airports During the period 2002/3 the law was are encouraged to do so. Good changed increasing the penalty for communication at an early stage of the disruptive passenger behaviour in order operation may make for a much better to give the police more power. relationship in the event of assistance from the police being required. The number of incidents continues to rise, prosecutions continue but some villains Manchester Police has developed a form have escaped serious sentences by for cabin staff to use for their original claiming that the small amount of alcohol notes, having experienced a disruptive consumed had reacted with medication passenger incident. The purpose of these they were taking. There is nothing in the notes is to ensure that all the relevant act or the Air Navigation Order that deals information is recorded very shortly after 2 Chairman’s Column What’s on the Menu? by Ian Crowe, Willis Ltd I was recently chatting with a retired the “menus” were changing. actions, questioning previous activities Captain who has over 40 years and providing solutions that really work. experience in this industry. In his youth, In this developing aerospace business he had always wanted to fly and was very the menu is constantly changing for all of We all know the phrase “aviate, navigate excited about the prospect of operating a us. Certain philosophies of operation and communicate”. This embodies the shiny new B727. Having passed all the have changed, some for the better. concept of risk management by requirements he was cleared to operate identifying, analysing and categorising as an FO, looking forward to a long and What should always be on the menu is risk to achieve safe operation. This exciting career. safety, which is sometimes easy to miss, phrase is easy to understand and being crowded out by these new prioritise. Without understanding risk Technically demanding to operate but a demands. however, the priorities may change and joy to fly, his thirst for professional the concepts of safety and safe operation knowledge and understanding For engineers, the new menu items now are lost. (encouraged by his crew) knew no include more component replacement; for bounds. air traffic controllers more automation; for My previous column was entitled the risk cabin crew more responsibilities; for flight of complacency. Introducing the The day of his first flight came with the crew more operational management; for concepts and disciplines of risk into our sad news that a close family member had airport operators more aircraft; for daily “menus” of operation must surely been involved in a car accident. Our aviation authorities more legislation and reduce complacency and improve the FO’s problem was, should he visit this for airlines more demands from overall safety of our business.
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