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15 May 2007
AS&D Quality,
Safety and Regulatory
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The objective of this newsletter is to
provide perspective to the Aviation, Space, and Defense
(AS&D) industry on current and relevant quality,
safety, and regulatory matters in our
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Old dogs
can teach tricks
Many
of us recognize the aging workforce we have in the
AS&D industry. In such, one of our greatest
challenges we are presently faced with is how to
transfer the knowledge which resides in the minds of our
senior professionals into those of our new.
As
industry leaders we are also faced with where should we
spend our training money? Would we get a return on our
investment if we spent money on our people who are
nearing the retirement door? The answer is a
qualified yes!
The
majority of our industry expertise is embodied in the
minds of our senior professionals. The trick is to
get it downloaded to our younger aspiring people. My
suggestion is to train your senior professionals to
learn how to be mentors of knowledge transfer.
Each
organizational member should have an Individual
Development Plan (IDP). Why not make the IDP
of our senior industry members be the transference of
knowledge? Here are some ideas:
- Develop
IDP expectations for Sr. professionals to transfer
knowledge
- Structure
a process to capture organizational intellectual
capital
- Invest
money to train Sr. professionals in knowledge
management
- Measure
what your organization knows and what it does
not.
Well,
if you don't have time for something like knowledge
management, you can always wait to see what
happens. But imagine watching the tide go out only
to experience the onset of a
Tsunami .
Written by: M.J.
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AS&D
News  The
following are news links relevant to quality, safety,
and regulatory matters in the AS&D industry.
These are only events which have been reported in the
past two weeks. If you would like to see something
else or more, please let us know. Remeber, part of
being a professional is being relevant. It's your
responsibility to stay informed.
Teamwork wins safety award
(UK)
In a break from tradition, joint winners
have been announced for the CAA's General Aviation
Safety Awards.
A judge has dismissed criminal charges
against the pilot of a plane that crashed into an icy
Alaska lake, leading to the drowning death of a South
Africa teenager.
Bryan Webster Receives Transport Canada
Aviation Safety Award (CAN)
The Honourable Lawrence Cannon, Minister
of
Transport, Infrastructure and Communities,
announced yesterday that Mr. Bryan
Webster of
Victoria has received the 2007 Transport Canada Aviation
Safety
Award for his long-standing commitment to
aviation safety.
Code-named the A6, the 'environmentally
benign civil airliner' project is the result of around
60,000 man hours of development at Cranfield University and is
packed with a suite of technologies that make the plane
quieter, more fuel efficient and much more comfortable
for passengers.
Private, or general aviation, flights are
82 times riskier than commercial airline trips and
represent the overwhelming majority of aviation crashes
and casualties in the United States.
Canadian transport officials are asking
Bombardier Aerospace (BBD.B) to modify its maintenance
procedures for certain regional jets in order to cut
down on the number of problems linked to their flap
systems.
At the closing ceremony of the forum,
mainland authorities also offered a series of
preferential measures for Taiwan. They include
education, air transport, sea links and cross-strait
tourism.
Virgin Atlantic is to
hold a joint biofuel demonstration with Boeing,
Virgin Fuels and engine
maker GE Aviation on one of
its Boeing 747-400s during 2008 - the first-ever attempt
by an airline to develop sustainable fuel sources
suitable for use on commercial jet engines.
The ill-fated Boeing 737-800,
one of the most advanced airliners in the world that
went down in Niete was six months old having been
delivered to Kenya Airways only last October.
F.A.A. downgrades Indonesian air system
(USA)
A growing number of applications are
turning to carbon dioxide lasers. Cathy McBeth explains
what the far-IR source has to offer and what selection
criteria potential buyers should bear in
mind.
Schirra lifted spirits, space program
(USA)
Pioneering astronaut Wally Schirra was
remembered Thursday as the funniest and most
approachable of America's original rocket-riders, a
merry prankster who loved a practical joke.
President Vladimir Putin signed a decree
approving the merger of five air carriers on Wednesday,
amid government efforts to boost the country's
struggling aviation industry.
Two Northwest Airlines planes collided on the
ground in 2005 after thrust reversers failed, in effect
meaning the pilot was unknowingly hitting the gas
instead of the brakes, according to a recent report by
the National Transportation Safety Board.
NASA's Aqua satellite, built by
Northrop Grumman Corporation, marked its fifth year
on-orbit Friday observing the Earth's water systems,
producing a massive data flow that is giving the world's
scientists insight into the Earth's climate. Aqua was
launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif., on May
4, 2002.
Legislation was introduced to reauthorize
the Federal Aviation Administration and modernize the
nation's air traffic control system includes provisions
designed to bolster the agency's labor negotiations
process.
Gulf Air has successfully completed the
International Air Transport Association (IATA)
Operational Safety Audit (IOSA) and has retained its
place on the IOSA Registry.
NASA and the Federal Aviation
Administration (FAA) signed a Memorandum of
Understanding to foster the development of students'
skills in science, technology, engineering and
math.
FAA reconsiders pilot retirement age
(USA)
Current
law requires American pilots to retire once they turn
60, but the federal government is considering changing
the age to 65.
Seeking guidance on FAA's planned implementation
of safety management systems (SMS) for repair stations?
The wait for something official -- in draft form, at
least -- shouldn't be long.
FAA proposes harmonizing rotorcraft
engine-out standards (USA)
The FAA last week formally proposed new rules
designed to bring its rotorcraft certification standards
into "harmonization" with existing European standards
and proposed Canadian regulations. The new rules can be
found in a Notice of Proposed
Rulemaking (NPRM).
New EASA responsibility
(EASA)
Starting on 29 March 2007, EASA is
responsible for the approval of the flight conditions on
the basis of which a permit to fly can be issued by the
Competent Authority of the Member State of Registry, or
of the Member State prescribing the identification
marks.
Bulgaria's aviation unprepared for EC
examination (BUL)
The examination should begin on May 7
2007, but CAA failed to prove to the European Commission
(EC) that it was ready to meet EU
standards.
Legislation, S. 1300, has been introduced
in the U.S. Senate to authorize appropriations for the
Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) for fiscal years
2008 through 2011 to improve safety and capacity and to
modernize the air traffic control system.
The Civil Aviation Safety Authority has
been given $9 million to spend over three years to
introduce a regulated breathalyser operation.
Ontario students will travel around the
globe to
work for some of the world's most successful
and innovative corporations this summer through the
McGuinty government's new global Edge program,
Small Business and Entrepreneurship.
FAA certification of new "Commuter"
Zeppelin under way (USA)
The FAA has issued proposed design
criteria for a modern and much smaller
incarnation of the famous Zeppelin airship. Built by the
same German company that brought us the Hindenburg,
among others, in the early part of the 20th century,
Zeppelin LZ N07 builds on the hard-won knowledge about
safe operation of the aircraft.
Air controllers tie safety to workload
(USA)
Some veteran air-traffic controllers in
Atlanta say they are working too many overtime shifts as
the result of chronic understaffing, which they contend
endangers air safety.
JSC engineer receives NASA Quality and
Safety Award (USA)
Eric L. Christiansen, an engineer in the
Astromaterials Research and Exploration Science
Directorate at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, has
received the 2006 Quality and Safety Achievement
Recognition (QASAR) Award, NASA's highest honor for
quality and safety.
The third African air
transport ministerial conference opened Thursday
underlining safety and security issues as crucial to the
future and growth of the industry on the
continent.
In his submission to NASA's Aviation Safety
Reporting System, the pilot complained that his employer
"has become increasingly confrontational, condescending
and oppressive toward the pilot group. . . . This kind
of atmosphere is fatiguing, numbing, unhealthy and
downright dangerous to work in."
The Medical Association of
Jamaica (MAJ) and the Pharmaceutical Society have
cautioned arthritis sufferers against the use of WD-40 -
the penetrating oil spray that serves as a cleaner,
lubricant and corrosive solution for use on metal -
saying improper use could result in inflammation of the
skin and lung.
"There are nowhere near enough engineers in the
pipeline," warns the Aerospace Industries Association.
NASA, the Defense Department and the defense industry
have too few systems engineers to oversee big,
complicated programs, the National Academies of Science
complains.
The head of the Federal Aviation
Administration, Marion Blakey, often claims in
congressional testimony and public speeches that 97
percent of the agency's capital projects are on time and
on budget. Not so, said two senators at a May 10
Senate panel hearing.
The delayed, protracted and initially
confused and off-course search for the Kenya Airways
plane that crashed in Cameroon last Saturday is a cruel
reminder that African countries lack the minimum level
of expertise required to respond professionally and
effectively in the event of an aviation
disaster.
A jumbo jet barreling down a runway at up
to 100 mph at Los Angeles International Airport came as
close as 50 feet to a turboprop on a nearby taxiway,
officials said, in the latest such incident to point up
safety concerns with the airfield's layout.
A missile is tentatively scheduled to be
fired from the Kodiak Launch Complex between May 24 and
May 27 to test an interceptor launched from Vandenberg
Air Force Base in California.
President Jerry Larson has been scouting
the San Andres Mountains for nearly two weeks looking
for the payload from the rocket UP launched into
suborbit on April 28.
Congress told FAA lacks road map for
NextGen (USA)
The FAA says that the current national
airspace system won't be able to handle the expected
tripling of air traffic by 2025, and there's generally
no disagreement among stakeholders about the need for
ATC modernization.
Blakey calls environmental plan
'unworkable', but warns that similar backlash against
aviation is possible in USA.
Alcoa's Lafayette Operations receives
safety honor (USA)
Alcoa announced May 14 that its Lafayette,
Ind., facility was awarded a 2006 Occupational
Excellence Achievement Award for Safety Excellence from
the U.S. National Safety Council.
A renewed fight over the use of U.S. specialty
metals in Pentagon contracts is brewing as Congress
takes up the annual defense authorization bill.
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AS&D
Events
The
following is a listing of upcoming events relevant to
the AS&D industry.
IPL: Root Cause Corrective Action
Workshop (May 23, 2007; Anaheim, California,
USA).
The 19th FAA/ATA
International Symposium on Human Factors in Maintenance
and Ramp Operations. September 5-6. Hyatt Regency
Orlando International Airport Hotel.
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SUPs
Notification
The FAA has release a new suspected
unapproved parts notification, advising
aircraft owners, operators, manufacturers, maintenance
organizations, and parts suppliers and distributors
regarding parts removed from foreign military surplus
helicopters.
Aircract affected are Eurocopter Alouette
helicopter models SE 3130, SE 313B, SA 3180, SA 318B, SA
318C, SE 3160, SA 316B, SA 315B, SA 319B, and SA
316C.
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Airworthiness Directive;
Turbomeca Arriel 2B Series Turboshaft
Engines
The deterioration of the
splines on the HP/LP pump assembly drive shaft may
eventually interrupt fuel supply and cause uncommanded
in-flight engine shutdown.
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FAA Reports that Runway Incursions are on
the Rise
Runway safety is a common concern for all of us.
Together we can make a positive difference through
education, training, and enhanced situational awareness
to reduce runway incursions. Incursions are serious,
they are real, and they are happening every day. To
date, there are 37 pilot deviations that have resulted
in runway incursions as compared to 21 for the
equivalent period FY2006 in FAA Southern Region. Studies
show that a pilot's lack of situation awareness is a
major cause of runway incursions. The FAA will
be adding new information to their website every month
for your use.
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Change 3
to FAA Order 8130.2F
Released
Please be advised that Change 3 to Order 8130.2F
became effective April 18, 2007, and is available online
in the Regulatory and Guidance Library. Click here to link to
document. |
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This newsletter is brought to you by The IPL Group,
LLC. We hope you find the content informative and
useful. If there are other features of this
newsletter that you would like to see, let us
know. The power of our industry is not solely
driven by mechanical means, it is our intellectual base
which brings innovation and strength.
Sincerely,
Michael
Dreikorn
President The IPL
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