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IS NEW TECHNOLOGY SUFFICIENT

TO ENSURING AVIATION SAFETY? Offshore/Onshore Aviation Conference

Kuala-Lumpur, Malaysia | September 02nd 2013

Alexandre ALDEBERT | Aviation Advisor

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Is new technology sufficent to ensuring aviation safety ?– OOA Conference – Kuala-Lumpur – 02SPE13 2

1. TOTAL Aviation Activity Key figures

2. Safety evolution

3. Safety illusion

4. Safe implementation: How to success?

5. Conclusion

WHY TOTAL AT AN AVIATION

CONFERENCE?


TOTAL E&P - AVIATION KEY FACTS


38’000

Annual flying hours:

Annual passengers:

40’000

90

Dedicated aircraft:

Aviation inspections:

80

Aviation activity ratio:

+11%

/ year

RW

FW

Dedicated aviation services:

32 countries

• Develops its own Aviation Policy & Standards.

• Active member of the OGP ASC.

• Launch „End-user“: EC225 (UK) & AW139 (NL).

SAFETY EVOLUTION


SAFETY EVOLUTION SINCE 1960S

0

10

20

30

40

50

60

70

80

1960s 1980s 2000s 2010s

Number of fatal airliner hull-loss accidents

Emphasis on

certification

requirements

Emphasis on

procedures Emphasis on

Human Factors


Source: ASN

AVIATION SAFETY STATISTICS SUMMARY


“Statistics are like a bikini: What they show is interesting, what they hide is vital.”

● Thousands of „reactive“ Aviation Safety statistics. ● Very few „proactive/preventive“ Aviation Safety

statistics available.

GLOBAL HELICOPTER SAFETY RATE


Source: IHST

HELICOPTER SAFETY RATE FOR ASIA & EUROPE


Source: IHST

SAFETY ILLUSION


DEVELOPMENTS IN THE RW INDUSTRY SINCE 2000


● Technical developments: - New types: AW139, EC225, S92

- New Equipments: EFB, EGPWS, FDM, HUMS, TCAS, RIPS, Data-link (…)

- Certification: Crashworthiness, PC2E, EASA CS-29 (…)

● Operational developments: - Digital cockpit

- Simulator training

- Distance Learning Platforms

● Organizational developments: - GNSS & ARA procedures

- LOFT training

- SMS

● ATM & helideck areas developments.

EXAMPLES OF SAFETY EVENTS


IS IT SAFER?


What are the challenges to succeed? What are the challenges to succeed?

SAFE IMPLEMENTATION: HOW TO

SUCCESS?


AVIATION FUNDAMENTALS


$‘$$$‘$$$ Certification

• Specifications

• Aircraft

• Equipments

• SoW

Support

•Parts

• Supply chains

• Services

Operator

• Approval

• Procedures

• Personnel

Maintenance

•Approval

•Procedures

• Personnel

Personnel

•Qualification

•Competency

•Number

Others

• ATM

• Fuel

•Facilities

•Environment

CAA • Rules

• Authority

• Personnel

Experience

Sharing

AIRCRAFT CERTIFICATION & RELIABILITY


● New certifications specifications (EASA, FAA).

● Aircraft design assessment deficiencies: - AW139, EC225, S92

- A380, DA7X, B787

● Aircraft reliability problems.

● Poor quality components / Bogus parts.

● Undeveloped Operator reliability program.

● Manufacturers do not communicate „Component reliability“.

● Who is leading the Aviation Industry: Regulator or the others parties?

BRAND NEW AIRCRAFT TECHNICAL SUPPORT


● Parts shortage & un-manufactured tools.

● Un-optimised logistics supply chains.

● Engineering response & development delays.

● Un-adapted technical libraries.

● Safety Communications & sharing with all aviation parties.

● Limited number of authorized maintenance centers & component shops.

● Unshared flight data package for flight simulator design, limiting the number of flight training centers.

AIRWORTHINESS & MAINTENANCE MANAGEMENT


● Lack of maintenance program customization.

● Weak HUMS data interpretation & usage.

● Engineers shortage: - Hiring process & criteria

- Requirement lowering?

- Overtime & fatigue

● Engineers competency: - On-the-Job Training.

- Continuous skills developments.

- Supervision & evaluation.

- Language & culture skills.

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AIRCREW ISSUES


● Selection: - Shortage

- Hiring process & criteria

- Conversion criteria

● Initial training: - Simulator Vs A/C equipments different & kind of operation.

- Type of training Vs older / younger aircrew (IT, DLS, repetition).

- Line supervision & equipments use?

● Recurrent training: - Training program customized to operator procedures & A/C equipments?

- Contracted training organizations checked by Air Operators ?

● Training personnel: - Experience & competency checked?

● Aircrew skills & competencies: - Shortfalls not documented…everybody passed without flying colors.

- Development of new skills to fly intelligent aircraft?

OPERATOR PROCEDURES


● Unconsolidated & non-customised company documentation.

● Reporting Culture: - Still reactive : poor near-missed event reported.

- Aircrew report technical defects, rarely operational events.

- Engineers not issuing reports.

● Communication/Safety sharing: - Within the air operator.

- With the CAA & Manufacturer.

● FDM analysis & usage.

● SMS outcomes remain unclear in general.

CONCLUSION


ACCIDENT RATE REDUCTION


● Equipments & technology

● Regulations

● Safety overisght

● Learning from errors

● Best practice sharing

● Cooperation between all aviation parties

● Human factors focus

● Pro-active stance

CONCLUSION


● New technology has improved & will continue to positively contribute to aviation safety.

● A/C are easier to fly, but: - overconfidence,

- inattentive attitude,

- more complex to understand.

● People are involved in most of the accidents.

● More complex new technology will be, longer an efficient implementation for an effective control will be.

“New technology Power is nothing without control”

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