AviationSafety WORLD ALAR SPREADING THE MESSAGE RETURN OF THE KILLERS 2005 Safety Review CORE LOCK Resisting restarts HYPERTENSION Recognition is the key LEADERS LOG Kotaite, Auer & Blakey FlightTHE JOURNAL Safety OF Foundation FLIGHT SAFETY FOUNDATION INAUGURAL ISSUE JULY 2006 CEOs on Training A SERIES “Enterprise Rent-A-Car puts customers first. FlightSafety puts us first.” ANDREW C. TAYLOR Chairman and CEO, Enterprise Rent-A-Car Andy Taylor began his career at Enterprise Rent-A-Car with a sponge and a bucket. Washing cars at age 16 gave him hands-on insights into the company his father, Jack, had founded in 1957. After college and several years in the automotive industry, he returned to his St. Louis hometown and the family business, ready to put those lessons to work. Once he assumed the driver’s seat in 1991, he built on his father’s vision to make customers completely satisfied. The company’s growth accelerated, its fleet expanding from 5,000 to more than 800,000 vehicles. he secret to business success is a satisfied customer. The Enterprise has relied on FlightSafety for its pilot training secret to business leadership is a completely satisfied for more than 30 years. Says Taylor, “FlightSafety takes the T customer. Enterprise Rent-A-Car proves this beyond a doubt. same approach as we do with our customers. It considers our Enterprise has long made complete customer satisfaction its long-term needs, develops innovative ways to meet these overriding goal. Under the leadership of CEO Andy Taylor, needs and always delivers on the details. For us, that’s complete it also happened to become the largest rental car company satisfaction – and total confidence when we fly.” in North America with revenues of more than $8 billion, generated by 62,000 employees at 6,700 offices in five countries. The nearest competitor doesn’t come close. Leading market research companies repeatedly name Enterprise number one in customer satisfaction within its industry. Its robust service philosophy has led to such innovations as picking The Most Trusted Name in Training. up customers and taking them to their rental cars. For free. “My father always said to take care of your customers For more information, please contact any of our Learning Centers or call Scott Fera: 636.532.5933. Our headquarters are at the Marine Air Terminal, LaGuardia Airport, and employees first and profits will follow,” explains Taylor. New York 11371-1061. E-mail: [email protected] “He is a wise man.” flightsafety.com PRESIDENT’sMEssaGE FSF PUBLICATIONS: GROWING Stronger or nearly 60 years, Flight Safety Founda- General of Civil Aviation Conference on tion publications have been recognized as a Global Strategy for Aviation Safety. You an authoritative source of information that can find that article on page 12. has contributed significantly to improving Dr. Kotaite’s term as ICAO President Faviation safety. In the past, we have produced will soon end. During his time commercial avia- separate publications to address various safety tion has seen many changes, and he has been in- topics, but now we are making big changes to strumental in successfully guiding the worldwide that format. industry, often through difficult times. I know that The same quality will be found each month in you all join me in wishing the best for Dr. Kotaite Aviation Safety World, in an up-to-date, engaging as he leaves ICAO and returns to private life. He format. In addition to the kinds of articles that you has been an incomparable president. The aviation have been used to reading, Aviation Safety World industry owes much to him and we will all miss will include editorials, letters to the editor and more him greatly. timely coverage of issues facing the industry. In this first issue of Aviation Safety World, I would like to be the first to congratulate the we bring you up to date on our Approach-and- FSF publications staff for a job well done. Led by Landing Accident Reduction (ALAR) program. Director of Publications Jay Donoghue, the staff There is also an interesting piece on how to best has worked countless hours to make the transition calculate passenger and baggage weights, a cur- to this new journal a reality. rent concern in the regional airline and air taxi As many of you know, the Foundation was industry. This might be controversial, so let us launched after the Second World War by that have your views because we are eager to hear from era’s aviation industry leaders. As we launch our you! And tell us what you think of the new format, new publication, we have the support of today’s the other information we have provided and what leaders, and I’m extremely pleased that several we ought to include in the future. of them have contributed to this inaugural issue. I am confident that you will like the look of Marion Blakey, Administrator of the U.S. Federal our new magazine and that you will find it even Aviation Administration, provides a look at new more informative and useful than our publications U.S. initiatives on page 43. Andre Auer, Chief have been in the past. Executive of the Joint Aviation Authorities in Europe, examines the transition to the European Aviation Safety Agency on page 24, while Dr. Assad Kotaite, President of the International Civil Stuart Matthews Aviation Organization (ICAO), provides a brief- President and CEO ing on the results of the recently held Directors Flight Safety Foundation WWW.FLIGHTSAFETY.ORG | AVIATIONSAFETYWORLD | JULY 2006 | 1 AviationSafetyWORLD contents July2006 Vol 1 Issue 1 features 17 2005Review | Return of the Killers 26 CoverStory | Making ALAR Pervasive 17 Foundation Refines ALAR Strategies Highlights of the FSF ALAR Workshop Regional Team Leader Updates 40 ThreatAnalysis | Night VMC 44 FlightOps | Core Lock 50 AviationMedicine | Blood Pressure Near Redline 26 55 InSight | One Size Fits All? departments 1 President’sMessage | Growing Stronger 5 EditorialPage | A New Journal 6 AirMail | Letters From Our Readers 40 7 SafetyCalendar | Industry Events 2 | FLIGHT SAFETY FOUNDATION | AVIATIONSAFETYWORLD | JULY 2006 44 55 50 contents 8 InBrief | Safety News AviationSafetyWORLD 12 LeadersLog | Dr. Assad Kotaite Stuart Matthews, publisher, FSF president and CEO [email protected], ext. 108 15 | Membership Update FoundationFocus J.A. 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