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COVER IMAGE
This shot was sourced from
AirTeamImages; our cover
story is an analysis of the
go-around technique – and
how getting it wrong has
brought disaster – by our
operations and safety
editor David Learmount.
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NEWS
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Dodging disaster
DEFENCE
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USAF’s budget warning shot
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The go-around
manoeuvre offers an escape from
unstable approaches, but all too often
its mishandling has led to an accident.
Could eye-scanning technology present
a solution?
THIS WEEK
New X-plane must combine speed with
vertical lift.
Saudi Arabia puts rst A330 tanker into
service
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Beechcraft loses LAS tender again
7
US Air Force pours scorn on F-35
contractors.
Boeing briefs 787 customers on interim
battery x
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Rivals power up for AETD engine
programme bid
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No decision on second line to support
A350 assembly.
Diamond seeks saviour for iced D-Jet
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COCKPIT TECHNOLOGY
Apple sky
With crews having access to devices
such as the iPad during all phases of
ight, airlines are targeting fresh
functionalities from a new breed of
electronic ight bags
BUSINESS AVIATION
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Airframe challenges stall Learjet 85.
Bell pressure prompts FAA rule-change query
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EADS defence strategy in the balance
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First Challenger 890 moves to t-out.
Finnish rm gains single-engine
breakthrough
AIR TRANSPORT
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Unstable approach led 727 to overrun.
Cuba’s ag carrier continues Russian
love affair
TECHNOLOGY
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Laser vision may end turbulent times
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Pitch illusion and control ambiguity led to
A330 crash.
Cockpit audio to warn pilots of Dash 8
overspeed
BUSINESS
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Wall Street 787 fears ease
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Performance boost for MS-21 turbofan
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NEXT WEEK
A320 ANNIVERSARY
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look back at the past and ahead to the
future of the best-selling narrowbody
which broke Boeing’s dominance
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KC-30A achieves crucial milestone.
Australian debut for duo
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Bidders eye OneSky tender.
Northrop Grumman pitches Triton for
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CONTENTS
IN THIS ISSUE
Companies listed
Aer Lingus...................................................... 6
Aeronamic ...................................................25
Afriqiyah Airways ..........................................11
AgustaWestland ...........................................19
Airbus ............................................ 8, 9, 13, 23
Airbus Military..............................................17
Air Charter Service .......................................25
Air France ....................................................31
Alenia Aermacchi ...................................16, 25
American Airlines .........................................26
AMR ............................................................27
Antonov .......................................................12
Arinc ............................................................27
Armavia .......................................................32
Astrium .................................................... 9, 24
Aviadvigatel .................................................12
Avionics & Systems Integration Group..........29
Avolon .........................................................13
BAE Systems .........................................16, 25
Beechcraft ..................................................... 6
Bell Helicopter .............................................19
Boeing ...................6, 7, 10, 13, 16, 17, 24, 25
Bombardier .....................................11, 19, 21
Bristow Helicopters ......................................19
British Airways ................................................ 6
Cassidian ................................................ 9, 24
Cathay Pacic ..............................................29
China Airlines...............................................32
Continental Airlines ......................................27
Cubana........................................................10
DHL Aviation ................................................10
Diamond Aircraft ............................................ 8
EADS .......................................8, 9, 13, 23, 25
Embraer ..................................................... 6, 8
Eurocopter ............................................... 9, 19
Euroghter ...................................................17
Finmeccanica ................................................ 6
Flying Colours ..............................................21
General Atomics Aeronautical Systems ........18
General Dynamics........................................16
General Electric .................................7, 17, 18
GKN Aerospace ............................................25
Gulf Air.........................................................32
Hendell Aviation ...........................................21
Hindustan Aeronautics ................................... 6
Iberia ............................................................. 6
Ilyushin ........................................................10
International Airlines Group ............................ 6
Irkut .............................................................12
Jeppesen Aviation ........................................26
Kaman .........................................................25
Korea Aerospace Industries..........................16
Lockheed Martin ..........................7, 16, 17, 18
Lufthansa Systems ......................................27
Moon Express ..............................................25
Navtech .......................................................27
Northrop Grumman......................................16
Panavia........................................................17
Piaggio Aero................................................... 6
Pratt & Whitney ..................................7, 18, 19
QantasLink ..................................................11
Qatar Airways ...............................................24
Qinetiq.........................................................25
Rolls-Royce .................................................... 7
Ryanair .......................................................... 6
Sierra Nevada ................................................ 6
Southwest Airlines........................................27
Thales ..........................................................25
Thomson Airways .........................................31
Tupolev ........................................................10
United Aircraft ..............................................12
United Airlines .............................................27
Urban Aeronautics .......................................17
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Wrong assumptions
A decision by an airline several years ago to test empirically how pilots use ight instruments
to monitor aircraft performance provided information that was unwelcome – and unexpected
I
f a pilot gets away with using an incorrect flying tech-
nique for long enough without a mishap, his training
department assumes, wrongly, he must be using the
correct technique. If that incorrect technique is then ap-
plied in a highly dynamic – but rare – manoeuvre such
as a go-around, it is only a matter of time before that pi-
lot’s luck runs out catastrophically.
There has long been an assumption in the industry
that a go-around is a simple manoeuvre. So embedded
was this view that several catastrophes resulting from
botched go-arounds were ignored as aberrations, and it
was not until a near-catastrophic go-around occurred in
southern England that the airline concerned decided to
test its assumptions about how pilots monitored their
instruments. They set up pilot eye-tracking tests in
their training simulators, and discovered many pilots
did not exercise a skill that – it was assumed – was fun-
damental to the skillset of any pilot who had earned an
A lot to take in
wrong, and accidents were waiting to happen. Since
that time, the all-engines go-around manoeuvre itself
has been dissected.
It can be very demanding because change happens
so fast as a result of the high power/weight ratio of
modern aircraft, and because many airports have tight
limitations in their missed approach procedure owing
to terrain or conflicting traffic patterns.
But the industry is simultaneously trying to reduce
the occurrence of the most common of all aviation ac-
cidents: the runway excursion. Runway excursions
frequently follow unstabilised approaches, and going
around from an unstabilised approach is one of the
most effective ways of reducing overruns.
Behind the discovery made by Thomson Airways with
its eye-tracking technique lurks the question of whether
the loss of a disciplined instrument scan is a result of
modern automated flying. Whatever the cause, the solu-
tion is a disciplined scan by the pilot flying, and a trained
monitoring procedure for the pilot monitoring.
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A lurking question is whether
loss of disciplined instrument
scan is a result of automation
instrument rating. Many pilots were found to employ a
haphazard instrument scan that ignored critical pri-
mary flight information for dangerously long intervals.
But because the measurement of a pilot’s instrument
flying skill was previously based on whether the air-
craft’s trajectory and performance remained within cer-
tain parameters, if that was achieved by luck rather
than judgement, the deficiency remained undiscov-
ered. It needed an empirical approach such as eye-
tracking to discover that assumptions about skills were
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Results mean EADS needn’t be defensive
E
ADS chief executive Tom Enders can be excused
for showing no job-security anxiety about the fact
that one of his first acts as chief executive was to unveil
an audacious merger proposal that failed spectacularly.
By joining with weapons systems giant BAE Systems,
he was going to resolve EADS’s big headache – that its
defence business lacks global scale – but 2012 finan-
cials show EADS to be in rude health, even without
growth in the military business. Enders says that, with
budgets being axed on both sides of the Atlantic, maybe
it’s not bad thing, as a business, to have relatively low
exposure to defence spending.
He makes a point that begs a question: can the aero-
space industry get along alright without defence?
As Airbus division results show, all indications
point to rapid and durable demand growth for civil air-
liners. With budget austerity likely to last a generation
on both sides of the Atlantic, military aerospace opera-
tions are starting to look like a drag on growth.
Anyway, military spending increasingly goes to elec-
tronic systems that make the difference in asymmetric
conflicts. The aircraft platforms existing today are, ar-
guably, good enough – so even another war might not
boost traditional defence aerospace.
There is much talk of defence industry consolida-
tion. Don’t be surprised if the result in aerospace is a
separation into civil and military specialists.
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David Learmount comments on
airline operational and safety
issues via his eponymous blog
at
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flightglobal.com/learmount
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