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November 2008
AS&D Quality, Safety and Regulatory
Newsletter
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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 industry.
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Process Drift: Is your organization drifting?
Have you ever heard the story of the boiling frog?
It goes like this, if you throw a frog into a pot of
boiling water it will jump right back out. The
reason is simple, the frog realizes the water is hot
and knows to take immediate action. However, if
you take that same frog and place it in the same pot
without boiling water, it will most likely just swim
around in the pot. Then when you turn heat onto
the pot in a gradual fashion the frog will not realize
the increasing heat. Not realizing any
significant changes in its environment, eventually the
frog will be cooked. This same scenario
routinely happens to organizations. In most
cases, if an organization notices the need to make
rapid change, it will engage in appropriate actions to
ensure survival. However, all too frequently
organizations do not perceive changes fast enough to
prevent waste and/or damage from occurring. For
example, changes in market demands may be so subtle
that procurement of long-lead items is not
appropriately planned. Another example might be
the loss of core competencies. As shifts occur
in leadership and workforce, so will the capabilities
of the organization. If these are not recognized
early enough organizations can become cooked frogs.
On the other hand, if organizations engage in
active internal and external scanning and assessment,
the need for adaptive change can be realized in a more
proactive and cost-effective manner. But it's
one of those pay me now or pay me later deals.
Scanning and assessments requires investment and
resources that are rather scarce these days.
However, the price to be paid for not heading problems
off early is much more expensive. Take for
example the scrap, repair, rework, and process
inefficiencies that are caused by processes drifting
to out-of-control conditions. Now magnify those
expenses by the cost of litigation, loss of customer
confidence, and loss of market share when things go
terribly wrong. To avoid your organization
becoming a boiled frog, invest in scanning and
assessment activities. Identify risk as early as
possible. Apply tangible measurement to risk so
that the highest rated conditions receive the most
urgent focus and action. And, don't allow
subjective assessment to become the rule of measure.
Measurement of capability, capacity, and compliance
must be objective and at intervals that make sense.
For more discussion on effectively communicating
performance measurements read The Synergy of
One and/or contact The
IPL Group for support. (The
IPL Group helps organizations deploy sustainable
performance improvement.)
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 The following are news links
relevant to quality, safety, and regulatory matters in
the Aviation, Space, Defense and Maritime industries.
These are events which have been reported in the months
of October and early November 2008. As a
professional, it's your responsibility to
remain relevant.
Workforce
In a rough in tumble economy, the military, even in
wartime, is becoming a safe career option.
Business aircraft manufacturers are cutting
production and slashing workforces as the deepening
global financial crisis hits orderbooks and knocks
sales.
A Vought Aircraft executive today pledged to
complete in the fourth quarter more than 80% of its
scheduled shipments despite an ongoing labour strike
at a key facility.
Airline companies under the Federation of Indian
Airlines (FIA) plan to make a presentation to the
civil aviation ministry saying they will be forced to
axe 8,000 employees if the government implements the
new ground handling policy from January 1, 2009.
Bombardier Aerospace says plans for its new Learjet
85 assembly line and the added Wichita jobs that come
with it are still on track, despite the global
financial crisis.
Regulatory & Safety
FAA's Ballough
and Sabatini heading for retirement (USA)
 Sabatini's replacement will be
Peggy Gilligan, now deputy associate administrator for
aviation safety. With responsibility for
certification, production approval and continued
airworthiness.
UK aviation
body to assist Nigeria on air safety (UK)
Seeking to improve
safety in the country's burgeoning aviation industry,
the Royal Aeronautical Society (RAS) has pledged to
collaborate with Nigeria in the area of determining
the causes of aircraft accidents and how the country
can minimise or eradicate them through sharing of
information in the sector.
The Transport Secretary
has clashed with Labour backbenchers over a third
runway at Heathrow Airport.
The FAA announced it
will pay Honeywell International, Inc., and Aviation
Communications & Surveillance Systems (ACSS) $9
million to test and install satellite-based
ADS-B systems to help improve runway safety.
In an effort to avoid a lengthy and costly
legal battle, City and federal aviation officials will
try to settle a lawsuit that challenges Santa Monica's
ban on larger, faster jets at its municipal airport.
 Transport Canada broke its own
rules when it cancelled an audit program just months
before a fatal plane crash during its transition to a self-policing civil
aviation system.
A stakeholders' conference on the
implementation of the Yamoussoukro Decision on the
liberalization of access to the air transport markets
in Africa on Friday, 7th November 2008 in Accra agreed
to accelerate the liberalization of the markets for West and Central Africa.
Aviation
business roundtable focuses on key security, safety &
economic issues (USA)
More than 80 aviation business leaders met
with key financial and political experts to discuss a
number of critical issues affecting the community
including the economy, taxes, safety, security, FAA
enforcement and the recent elections.
In the wake of last week's
agreement between the Straits Exchange Foundation and
China's Association for Relations Across the Taiwan
Strait on increasing the number of cross-strait
charter flights, officials from the Aviation Safety
Council (ASC) met representatives from China's Office
of Aviation Safety yesterday to discuss differences in
handling aviation issues.
Brent Bowen, AQR co-author and aviation science
chair at Parks College of Engineering, Aviation and
Technology, Saint Louis University (SLU), discussed
recent factors affecting air transportation and what
consumers need to know about traveling this holiday
season.
The FAA has finalized an airworthiness directive
(AD) first proposed in April 2005, calling for
operators of more than 600 Boeing airliners to
eventually replace insulation blankets the agency says
could ignite and spread fire ignited by electrical
arching or sparking.
 Following in the footsteps of the
recent update of the GPS SPS Performance Standard,
the FAA has issued a performance standard for the Wide
Area Augmentation System (WAAS).
 The Civil Aviation Safety
Authority (CASA) has requested more information from
Aerotropics after a proposal by the grounded airline
to resume flight services to the Torres Strait off far
north Queensland.
Concerned about a rise in midair-collision hazards
facing jetliners on both sides of the Atlantic,
regulators, air-traffic controllers and aviation-parts
suppliers are devising new procedures and systems to
reduce such dangers.
Changes in US aviation policy as
President George Bush transitions to President-elect
Barack Obama will develop as part of a "long process"
during which future priorities of the Dept. of
Transportation and FAA will be debated.
In its continuing bid to prove it is doing
something to improve runway safety, the FAA convened
the Runway Safety Council, a joint government-industry
body that will take a deeper, systemic approach to
improving runway safety.
The Australian Transport Safety Bureau released
it's annual review of Australia's entire aviation
fleet which reveals a sharp spike in the number of
incident involving air frames, engines and overall
safety.
 After receiving at least two
reports in recent months of improperly installed
engines on Boeing 737s, the FAA has proposed enhanced
inspections of engine mounts on the four most recent
versions of the 737, the -600 through -900 "Next
Generation" models.
The FAA has issued a final rule that will require
manufacturers of newly certificated commercial
aircraft after 28 November to protect passengers and
cockpit crew from the effects of explosives or
incendiary devices set off in flight.
 Effective Nov. 12, flight crews
of the DC-9/MD-80 family of aircraft will be required
to conduct a take-off warning (TOW) system check
before each flight, in accordance with a European
Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) airworthiness directive
issued Oct. 29.
 The National
Transportation Safety Board has updated its "most
wanted list" for safety improvements for aviation,
railroads and highways. Civil Aviation
Research shows
pilot training is the best investment against
catastrophic accident risk (UK)
The latest
global airline safety analysis by the UK Civil
Aviation Authority indicates that, despite advancing
technology and improved aircraft reliability, crew
judgement and actions remain the most consistent
causal factor in global catastrophic accidents.
 Customers of Eclipse Aviation
Corp. have four lawsuits pending in federal court
against the Albuquerque aircraft manufacturer,
accusing it of failing to refund deposits
after it raised the price of its very light jet in
June.
United Airlines will become the first U.S. carrier
to demonstrate how next-generation technologies could
save more than two thousand gallons of fuel and cut up
to 55,000 pounds of carbon emissions on a single,
trans-Pacific flight.
A Ryanair aircraft suffered significant damage at
Rome's Ciampino airport when it flew into a flock of
birds as it was preparing to land. The impact caused
serious damage to the aircraft's engines, causing a
rough landing.
A380 wake is
'no worse than any other heavy', says Airbus (France)
 Unprecedented tests of conditions
for aircraft following the Airbus A380 in flight
demonstrate that the wake turbulence it creates is no
worse than that produced by any other heavy aircraft.
Each year, the Health & Safety
Executive (HSE) receives about 40 reported incidents
of air transport industry staff injuring themselves
after falling from height - many of them occurring
airside during aircraft maintenance - according to an
article in this month's Health & Safety International.
In a letter to the Texas Workforce Commission,
company CEO Bob Gowens attributed this latest round of
layoffs - and the general downturn in the market for
aerospace products and services - to the
"unanticipated and dramatic major economic downturn"
in the U.S. and global economies and the U.S. stock
market.
 An
estimated 3 percent of the fasteners on four
flight-test planes at the Everett plant, plus two
others that have been assembled for ground testing,
were installed incorrectly and will have to be removed
and replaced.
Airports are facing a shortage of runway deicing
fluids this winter due to a strike in a mine in
Canada, that produces potassium, a key ingredient in
the liquid, warned FAA.
 China recently merged its two
major aircraft makers, AVIC I and AVIC II, to help
consolidate aviation manufacturing. China Aviation
Industry Corp. is parent to six new companies set up
to manage the various businesses run by AVIC I and
AVIC II, which include airplane engines, helicopters,
transporters, general aviation, airborne systems and
aviation trade. Maritime Hybrid tugboat
may give local ports a green push (USA)
 This is the second Bahraini order
for Abu Dhabi Ship Building (ADSB), the only dedicated
naval shipbuilding and repair facility in the Arabian
Gulf.
The death of
20 crew members on board a Russian-built
nuclear-powered submarine, which was to be delivered
to the Indian Navy on a 10-year lease for training its
crew, has raised questions about Moscow's submarine
building technology.
India and
China have progressively stepped up military contacts
both at the headquarters and field levels since
resolving to improve bilateral ties in the 1990s.
Space
 Development of personal
spaceflight safety oversight should be part of a
United Nations process separate from existing
international aviation organisations, according to a
regulatory model being promoted by the FAA.
With plans underway for passenger space
travel becoming a reality by the middle of next
decade, the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) has
started developing safety rules for civilian space
flight.
 For the moment the space industry
is joined at the hip with the aviation industry. Over
the long term this is going to change, but not for at
least another five or ten years.
The Marisat-F2 satellite, manufactured by Hughes
Aircraft Inc. and launched in 1976, had only a
five-year design life, yet until the end, the
communications payload continued operating within its
original specifications.
Materials
An L-29 jet had Erie-made fuel
in its tanks this month when it became the first
biodiesel-powered airplane to fly across the U.S.
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Follow the below link to view the
FAA's Nuts and Bolts Newsletter. In this
issue, Mr. Bill O'Brien provides an informative
editorial on service bulletins.
Also, the FAA's
November/December Aviation News newsletter is out.
It's a great source of information for the general
aviation industry.
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In line with worldwide effort of
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