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to end Brandenburg wait,
while developer blamed
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stranglehold on C-17
engine sustainment
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TTx was sourced from
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certiicated piston-driven
aircraft in production.
See general aviation
industry report
p25
US Air Force to run down Boeing C-17 engines pact with
Pratt & Whitney
p16
. EASA details wing-rib ix timelines
for A380 leet
p7
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COver stOry
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GeNerAl AviAtioN SpeCiAl report
28 the drive for diesel Heavy fuel motor
engines market remains uncertain
30 lagging behind uSA europe’s light
sport aircraft rules inlexible
33 rearguard action Is there an upside for
europe’s general aviation community?
35 Aero keeps flying high Friedrichshafen
show preview
16 euroighter tries out Harpoon missiles
for size
this week
BUsiness AviAtiOn
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Cessna hails upgrades for irst production
Citation X.
Phenom 100’s brake unit faces uS safety
probe
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eurocopter waits on eASA approval
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Daimler bids eADS auf Wiedersehen
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rising tensions spur Apache order.
revised forecast casts gloom on
business jet sector
ABACe shOw repOrt
18
Talks stall over assembly of Sovereign,
Latitude in China
20
Harbin gets to work on irst Legacy 650 for
Q4 delivery
news FOCUs
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boeing for business in brazil
FeAtUres
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pilot heAlth
Clearing the air engine
oil fumes pose risk to crew
Air trAnspOrt
10 Indonesia in dock again over safety
11 False data caused Titan Airways 737
to strike tail
12 extra funding fuels sprint to inish
delayed berlin airport.
Steep approach led to Dash 8’s heavy
landing
13 P&W mulls simpler A320neo engine.
Soaring fuel bill prompts Tarom’s
eficiency drive
spACeFlight
21
nASA deies critics with latest budget
request
BUsiness
22
Playing at home again
regUlArs
5 Comment
41 Straight & level
42 letters
45 Classiied
47 Jobs
51 Working Week
48
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DeFenCe
14 AW169 emerges for army AAS battle.
boeing agrees to cut price for Chinook
contract
15 F-22 helmet sight plan is shot down.
Warsaw to rejoin nATO surveillance
programme
Next Week
Aero report
Kate Sarsield reports from the Aero
general aviation show in Friedrichshafen,
Germany (above), and we have a country
special on Turkey’s aerospace industry
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contents
in this issue
Companies listed
AAR .............................................................22
AgustaWestland...........................................14
AIM Aviation.................................................23
Airbus ................................................7, 11, 13
Air Charter ...................................................23
Arianespace ................................................23
Austro Engines............................................... 6
AVIC.......................................................18, 30
BAE Systems ...............................................16
Beechcraft ...................................................17
Bell Helicopter ............................................... 8
Boeing...............6, 8, 9, 10, 11, 13, 14, 16, 21
Bombardier .....................................12, 13, 17
British Airways..............................................22
CAIGA..........................................................18
Centurion Aircraft Engines ............................28
Cessna ..............................................8, 17, 18
CHC Scotia .................................................... 6
CIT ................................................................. 6
Commercial Jet ............................................22
CTS Engines.................................................23
Cubcrafters ..................................................32
Dassault ......................................................17
DeltaHawk ...................................................29
Diamond Aircraft............................................ 6
EADS ............................................................. 7
Embraer.......................................9, 13, 17, 20
Emirates Airlines ..........................................11
Engineered Propulsion Systems ...................30
Estonian Air ................................................... 6
Eurocopter .........................................6, 15, 17
Euroighter ...................................................16
ExecuJet Europe...........................................17
First Emirates Aviation Group .......................23
Garmin ........................................................17
General Electric ...........................................13
Gogo............................................................23
Hangar 8 .....................................................17
Hindustan Aeronautics .................................23
Honeywell ..............................................17, 23
ICBC Leasing ...............................................20
Korea Aerospace Industries............................ 8
Lion Air ........................................................10
Lockheed Martin ................................8, 15, 16
Lufthansa Technik ........................................20
Lycoming .....................................................30
Merpati Nusantara .......................................10
Metrojet......................................................... 6
Mistral Engines ............................................29
Nakanihon Air Service..................................17
Nextant Aerospace.......................................20
NH Industries...............................................15
Northrop Grumman......................................15
Pipistrel .......................................................32
PPG Aerospace ............................................23
Pratt & Whitney ......................................13, 16
Priester Aviation ...........................................17
PZL Swidnik .................................................15
Qatar Airways ...............................................12
Qinetiq.........................................................23
Raytheon ....................................................... 8
Rockwell Collins...........................................20
Rolls-Royce..................................................17
Sierra Nevada ..............................................21
Sikorsky......................................................... 6
SMA ............................................................29
SpaceX ........................................................21
Steyr Motors ................................................28
Sukhoi .........................................................10
Tarom ..........................................................13
Textron .........................................................23
Titan Airways ................................................11
Turkish Aerospace Industries .......................... 8
Williams International ..................................20
Zhuhai Hanxing General Aviation .................... 6
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China’s new political leadership
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of the high-net-worth visitors at-
tending abaCE 2013 (P18) in
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aging editor siva govindasamy,
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“Long queues of people who
made prior appointments were
waiting to board aircraft, whose
salesmen pointed out a newly-
minted millionaire here and
billionaire there keen to know
more about private jets. This is
the future of business avia-
tion,” says Govindasamy.
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ent in this picture, you might have Lady Thatcher to thank,
writes david Kaminski-morrow on the Airline Business
blog. The late iron lady
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handkerchief over a model of
a British Airways Boeing
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ins at a Conservative Party
conference in 1997.
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cameras. The former prime minister’s opinion was thought
to be crucial in ba’s decision to abandon the assorted
multi-coloured designs and revert to a version of the
Union lag it still uses today. On his eponymous blog, david
learmount recalls lying with a sidestick for the irst time,
25 years ago, on an Airbus A300, conigured as a testbed
for the then-new ly-by-wire system on the A320.
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Sleeping Lion
Drastic action is needed following Indonesia’s latest crash to ensure the country’s abysmal
safety record is improved – including, if necessary, suspending the right of airlines to operate
I
ndonesia’s Lion Air would have hoped 2013 would
be remembered for its order for 234 Airbus A320s in
March, and its plans to start two new subsidiaries on
the way towards becoming a major pan-Asian airline.
Instead, the lasting image from this year is likely to be
that of a Lion Air Boeing 737-800 loating in the sea off
Bali’s airport last week with a broken fuselage. Impor-
tant questions are rightly being asked once more about
Lion’s – and Indonesia’s – air safety standards.
Flightglobal’s Ascend database shows that during
the past 10 years, there have been at least 30 hull losses
and 23 other “major” incidents in Indonesia. This
chronic problem led to Jakarta enlisting IATA and
ICAO to help improve standards, but more can be done.
The transport ministry must restructure its Directorate
General of Civil Aviation, force it to confront its prob-
lems, and get outside experts in. It can enlist countries
such as Taiwan and South Korea, which once had simi-
Broken dreams
worst record of any major Indonesian airline. The focus
has shifted to the weather in Bali during the latest crash
and Lion’s oficials will point out that their last major
incident before this was in November 2010. These,
however, should not matter in the bigger picture.
Indonesian airlines will operate a record number of
aircraft during the next few years, and the onus is on
Jakarta to impose even stricter safety standards across
the board. Regulators must review ground and in-light
training standards and check if Indonesia’s airlines
have enough qualiied pilots, engineers and other es-
sential personnel to meet their growing leet numbers.
Indonesia should also apply the EU’s safety standards,
and impose stricter sanctions on its airlines. If one of
them does not meet the standards within six months, it
should be banned from adding new aircraft to its leet.
If it fails after a year, its AOC should be suspended. Yes,
these are drastic measures but it is about time Indone-
sia swallows a bitter pill. Any airline that compromises
safety for expansion does not deserve to ly.
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Nothing will happen overnight
but that just makes the change
in mindset even more urgent
larly dismal safety records. Changes require a major
shift in mindsets and nothing will happen overnight,
but that just makes them even more urgent.
The Indonesian airlines began improving after the
EU’s 2007 ban and lag carrier Garuda Indonesia was
taken off the list as it was progressively lifted from
2009. But Lion, which only began operations in 2000,
remains banned for good reason. Including the latest,
there have been seven major incidents involving its air-
craft. One was fatal and six were hull losses. This is the
See Air Transport P10
Still in denial
T
hings have moved on in some ways since we last
government or industry action, there is increasing con-
fusion, embarrassment and dissembling.
Government transport departments accept oil fume
events happen and that they contain neurotoxins, but
they insist the levels of contamination are acceptable.
At the same time they admit they don’t know what the
levels are and refuse to take measurements to deter-
mine them. They also refuse to require installation of
fume detection and warning systems.
This state of denial is enabled by the fact the burden
of legal proof is on the victims. It is only a matter of
time before biochemical proof is available, and the in-
dustry had better know how it will react when it is.
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looked at the subject of contaminated cockpit and
cabin air, and in other ways they have not.
More pilots are reporting more in-light events in
which engine oil fumes pollute cabin air, making crews
sick and, in some cases, almost incapacitating them.
Increasingly, accident investigators are conirming that
following these incidents neurotoxins from engine oil
have been found in pilots’ blood.
In Germany, the transport minister has recognised
the problem exists and called for united action, via the
European Commission and EASA. In that sense, things
have moved on, driven by increasing awareness among
crews about the issue and associated risks. But as for
Operations and safety editor
David Learmount reviews the
safety record of Lion Air and
other Indonesian carriers at
lightglobal.com/lionair
See Feature P38
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