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National Défense Defence nationale ISSUE 1, 2016 FROM THE TOP Chief of Defence Staff VIEWS ON FLIGHT SAFETY Commander Canadian Army DOSSIER The Threat From Unmanned Air Vehicle Proliferation The Duties... 26 Panic! 32 The Voice of Inexperience 36 Not always as you expect 37 Horns and Ice 38 II Flight Comment — Issue 1, 2016 Flight Safety... 40 The Duties... 26 TABLE OF CONTENTS Issue 1, 2016 Regular Columns From the Top 4 Views on Flight Safety 5 The Editor’s Corner 5 Good Show 6 For Professionalism 7 From the Flight Surgeon 8 Maintenance in Focus 12 Check Six 14 On Track 22 From the Investigator 42 Epilogue 43 The Back Page 44 Dossiers The Threat From Unmanned Air Vehicle Proliferation 24 Deconfliction and Integration – The Duties of a Joint erminalT Attack Controller 26 Unmanned Air Vehicles: Where do we stand? 38 Lessons Learned Panic! 32 The Voice of Inexperience 36 Things are not always as you expect 37 Horns and Ice 38 Flight Safety and the Raven B Miniature Unmanned Arial System 40 DIRECTORATE OF THE CANADIAN ARMED Send submissions to: To contact DFS personnel on FLIGHT SAFETY FORCES FLIGHT SAFETY an URGENT flight safety issue, MAGAZINE National Defence Headquarters please call an investigator who is Director of Flight Safety Directorate of Flight Safety available 24 hours a day at Colonel Steve Charpentier Flight Comment is produced up to four times Attn: Editor, Flight Comment (DFS 3-3) 1-888-927-6337 (WARN-DFS). a year by the Directorate of Flight Safety. 101 Colonel By Drive Editor The contents do not necessarily reflect Ottawa, ON, Canada, K1A 0K2 Visit the DFS web page at Major Peter Butzphal official policy and, unless otherwise stated, www.rcaf-arc.forces.gc.ca/en/flight-safety. Imagery Technician should not be construed as regulations, Telephone: 613-992-0198 Corporal Daisy Hiebert orders or directives. Contributions, comments FAX: 613-992-5187 and criticism are welcome. Contributions Email: [email protected] Graphics and design become the property of Flight Comment and d2k Graphic Design & Web may be edited for content, length or format. This publication or its contents may not be reproduced without the editor’s approval. Issue 1, 2016 — FlightISSN 0015 -Comment3702 A-JS-000-006 /JP-000III From the Top By General J.H. Vance, Chief of the Defence Staff he Defence Administrative Orders and concerning aviation safety, independently of I expect commanding officers involved with Directives mandate commanding officers the chain of command. Moreover, on Ministerial operating or supporting aviation assets to T to “conduct their own general and Direction, I have issued a CDS Order to the AIA allocate the right balance of resources to have specialist safety programs in accordance with delegating additional responsibilities to carry in place an effective Flight Safety Program. the General Safety Program and specialist out this function within the Flight Safety and Furthermore, commanding officers have to safety programs.” One vital specialist program Airworthiness Programs. demonstrate leadership and engagement that is well recognized nationally and in the program so our aviation assets are With the introduction of unmanned air internationally is the Canadian Armed Forces well protected. (CAF) Flight Safety Program. vehicles in different organizations of the CAF and the contracting out of many aircraft The Flight Safety Program, which I strongly maintenance and support activities, a vigorous champion and support without reservation, Flight Safety Program that spans to all elements reaches all elements of the CAF. Within the of our organization is critical. Aviation assets, CAF, the Commander Royal Canadian Air Force including aircraft and unmanned aerial is responsible for flight safety policy while the vehicles, are expensive and hard to replace. Director Flight Safety (DFS) administers the Also, our personnel are critical to mission program as a whole on his behalf. success. It is vital that our resources be well A capital element of the program stems from preserved through a pro-active flight safety the Minister of National Defence designating program to ensure the operational viability of DFS as the Airworthiness Investigative Authority the CAF, at home and abroad. The program is as required by the Aeronautics Act. With a key component to support any operational this designation comes the authority and deployment where aviation assets are involved. responsibility to investigate all matters 4 Flight Comment — Issue 1, 2016 Views on Flight Safety By Lieutenant-General J.M.M Hainse, Commander Canadian Army he Canadian Army (CA) is expected The Minister of National Defence is mandated The CA FS program is a tool that provides army to force generate combat-capable, under the Aeronautics Act to look after matters commanders at all levels with a focus on T multi-purpose forces to meet Canada’s of military aviation safety, and this is accomplished the fundamental airworthiness programs. defence needs. This implies inherent risks by the Canadian Armed Forces Flight Safety Fundamental safety principles, including free in developing personnel, equipment and Program. It applies to all personnel operating or and open reporting plus the development and capabilities for and during military operations. mandated to support air operations plus their implementation of preventative measures, must The preservation of our aviation support and supporting activities. The Royal Canadian Air be supported at all levels. Therefore, I expect resources (i.e. Unmanned Air Vehicles [UAV], Force uses a robust airworthiness program, that, with the introduction of new fleets like the helicopters, refuellers, flight feeding, etc.) plus comprised of Technical Airworthiness Authority CH147F Chinook, CU173 Raven-B and others, that their associated activities (parachuting, aerial and an Operational Airworthiness Authority to the CA leadership at all levels, will set the example delivery, rappelling, airspace control, drop ensure our personnel have airworthy/suitable and ensure that those personnel that operate or zones, etc.) is vital in order to maintain the equipment to operate, and to ensure that we work around these weapon systems understand army’s war fighting ability. An effective CA have the proper/appropriate training and the important role they play in this key program. Flight Safety (FS) program is designed to help procedures to effectively employ our personnel preserve these resources while contributing to and weapon systems at an acceptable level of mission success within an acceptable level of risk. risk. The CA must work within this framework in order to operate our UAV to support our mission. Editor’sThe Corner appy New Year! In our “From the Top well protected. In “Views on Flight Safety”, showcased a few years back in Flight Comment segment”, we begin by sharing with the Commander Canadian Army reiterates that (no. 1, 2010), except in this instance the author H you the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) point by insisting that FS is vital in order to utilizes data from a recent near mid-air collision Chief of Defence Staff’s concise directive on maintain the army’s war fighting ability and is in her analysis of the subject. In what would be a the role that Flight Safety (FS) shall play in designed to help preserve these resources shock to most, the article’s author explains that within our military. Worth mentioning is his while contributing to mission success within an no matter how much we insist that we could be comment explaining how our aviation assets acceptable level of risk. doing it better, we as humans are actually are expensive and hard to replace hence why Next, I’ll draw your attention to our “From the limited physiologically in effectively executing FS is a requirement both at home and abroad. the see-and-avoid principle and that perhaps What the CAF as a whole must similarly take Flight Surgeon” section which will examine what conventionally most if not all in the aviation insisting on a better ‘lookout’ isn’t the only away, and what the Directorate of Flight preventive measure to consider with respect to Safety (DFS) most often stresses, was the key community have deemed an important attribute improving aircraft deconfliction methods. statement that commanding officers have to for aircrew to possess: good lookout. This article probes further into a matter that was already demonstrate leadership and engagement in Continued on page 7 the program so all of our aviation assets are Issue 1, 2016 — FlightFlight CommentComment 5 Sergeant Keven Beaudry n 5 June 2015, Sgt Keven Beaudry, a CC130H Hercules crew of Tiger 307 engrossed in the preparations for the impending Instructor Flight Engineer, was off duty at his home on the SAR training, Sgt Beaudry’s actions served to quickly alert the crew O north edge of the City of Belleville when he observed a to this very serious situation. Given the proximity of the fuel leak to Hercules flying overhead that seemed to be venting a significant the number four engine and the volume of fuel leaving the aircraft, amount of fuel. it is highly probable that fuel would have migrated down the flap well and leaked down into the number four engine nacelle. This Tiger 307, the primary Search and Rescue (SAR) aircraft, had would have led to fuel being sprayed directly into the exhaust departed runway 06 in Trenton, taking it over Sgt Beaudry’s stream, where it would likely have ignited. Had this occurred, the neighborhood at an altitude of 1800 feet. As the aircraft passed results could very well have proven tragic for the crew of Tiger 307. overhead, he glanced upwards, immediately observing that something was out of the ordinary. Looking more closely, Sgt Beaudry is to be commended for his keen observations and Sgt Beaudry realized that a large amount of fuel was leaking from quick thinking that prevented what could have been a catastrophic the Hercules’ right hand wing between the outboard engine and the incident.