Teaching Threat and Error Management
Include threat and error management from the beginning of flight training. For an activity peppered with so many potential hazards, aviation has achieved a remarkable safety level since its perilous early days, most especially when thinking about public transport (or ‘Commercial Air Transport’) operation in recent decades. Much of the progress in the safety arena has come not just from technological advances per se, but from an...
Lasham Gliding Society challenge the CAA
Lasham Gliding Society (LGS), the world’s largest gliding club, is taking its fight against the newly announced Farnborough controlled airspace to the UK Civil Aviation Authority (CAA). In a statement the club said: “Lasham Gliding Society is strongly opposed to the CAA’s decision. Contrary to the statements made in the CAA decision document, Lasham Gliding Society considers that the decision to introduce new controlled airspace has...
EASA Launch Airspace Infringement Video
EASA and EU National Aviation Authorities have launched a coordinated safety promotion campaign on avoiding airspace infringement. The campaign, which addresses European General Aviation pilots and flying instructors, has been prepared because airspace infringements of General Aviation aircraft have steadily risen in the past 10 years say EASA. The campaign seeks to reach out to the European General Aviation (GA) community as widely...
Line in the Air?
As FTN went to print last month, the UK Civil Aviation Authority published its decision to grant Farnborough Airport new controlled airspace, some six years after the possibility of controlled airspace for Farnborough had first been formally mooted. The airspace proposal put forward by airport operators TAG Farnborough Airport was modified by the CAA, in order it said to afford easier access to non-commercial, light aircraft traffic,...
New EASA Rules on Mental Fitness in Wake of Germanwings Flight 9525 Accident
The European Union published new safety rules on air operations, including new provisions to support the mental fitness of air crew. Talking about the new regulations, EASA’s Executive Director, Patrick Ky, said: “These new European rules take up the proposals EASA made in its swift follow-up of the Germanwings Flight 9525 accident, in consultation with the wider aviation community. “With these rules Europe...
BALPA: New Drone Rules “Don’t Go Far Enough”
The British Airline Pilots Association, BALPA, say new UK drone laws, restricting drone-flying activity above 400 feet within one kilometre of an airport, “don’t go far not enough.” With 93 incidents between aircraft and drones in 2017 alone, the new regulations are expected come into force on 30 November 2019. This follows a year-on-year increase of reported drone incidents with aircraft. Additionally, the new laws...
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