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AGE and ALR head for BeijingAGE and ALR head for Beijing
AA, ATS and ADO ReportsAA, ATS and ADO Reports
Building Turbulence UpdateBuilding Turbulence Update
July 2006July 2006
I F A L P A. . . . . newsThe Global Voice of Pilots
I F A L P A. . . . .The Global Voice of Pilots news
July 2006
AGE Committee makes itsfirst visit to Beijing
IFALPA’s first Aerodrome & Ground Environment (AGE)Committee Meeting of the year took place in Beijing,19-21 June 2006, and was hosted by the China Air LinePilots Association (CHALPA).The meeting was well attended and included 11 repre-sentatives from China as well as regional representa-tives from Thailand, Korea, Japan and Singapore. TheIFALPA delegation included Captain Lindsay Fenwick,EVP Technical Standards, Captain Masayuki Ando, EVPMembership & Regional and Captain Hans PederTanderup, EVP Administration & Finance. The meeting was very productive and covered issuessuch as runway safety including runway incursions andexcursions. The Committee reviewed thenew ICAO Manual for the Prevention ofRunway Incursions and suggested new textfor the manual that will be released later thisyear. The Committee also discussed theEASA Notice of Proposed Amendment NPA06/2006 - Basic Principles and EssentialRequirements for the Safety andInteroperability Regulation of Aerodromes.
The IFALPA delegation joined with CaptainSong Chengren, President of CHALPA, CaptJiang Ping, Vice President of CHALPA,Captain Zhang Hong Ren, Member of theCouncil of CHALPA and Mr Ban Yongkan ofCHALPA to meet with Capt Yang Yuanyuan,Minister, General Administration of Civil
Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) and other highranking CAAC officials.Minister Yang, (who is qualified as a B-747-400 Capt),extended a very warm welcome to the CommitteeDelegates and showed a great interest in and knowl-edgeable about IFALPA. Discussions took place regard-ing how IFALPA could further our productive relationshipwith the Chinese pilots. At the end of the meeting CHAL-PA presented the Federation with a beautiful Chinesecarpet depicting the Great Wall of China.The AGE Committee meeting was followed by an AirportLiaison Representative Seminar on 22 June 2006 thatwas attended by twenty delegates from the region.
Left to Right: Capt. Jimmy Ho, AGE Committee Chairman, Capt. Masayuki Ando, EVP Membership and Regional, Capt. Hans-Peder Tanderup, EVP Administration & Finance, Capt.Lindsay Fenwick, EVP Technical Standards, Capt.Yang Yuanyuan, Minister of General Administration, CAAC, Capt. Song Chengren, President, CHALPA, Capt. Jiang Ping VP CHALPAand Capt. Zhang Hong Ren, Member of the Council of CHALPA.
James Eales reports from Beijing
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July 2006
ADO and ATS jointsession examinesUAVsThe Aircraft Design and Operation (ADO) and Air TrafficServices (ATS) Committees as well as the InternationalFlight Engineers (IFE) Committee travelled to Paris asguests of the French IFALPA Member Association,Syndicat National des Pilotes de Ligne (SNPL), whohosted the three Committees’ spring meetings from the11th to 16th of June. The week of meetings openedwith the annual meeting of the IFE Committee. Amongthe topics under consideration by the committee werethe changes to licensing in states which will comeunder EASA from the 1st of January, There is apparentya proposal that under the new regime F/Es will onlyrequire a Class 2 medical . F/E Jum Stott will continueto monitor the situation.As the ADO meeting drew to a close and the ATSCommittee began its work on the 14th the twoCommittees held a joint session to examine a numberof points that cross the two Committees’ portfolios. Atthe top of the agenda was the deployment ofUnmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs). Although theFederation’s current POL STAT is from this year’sConference, it was thought that given the rapid develop-ment of these aircraft and their proliferation it would be
worth re-examining the POL STAT to see if it requiredmodification or updates. In addition, the joint session
was given a presentation by Capt. Bill Royce ofBoeing who discussed RNP. Another highlightof the meeting was the presentation by Capt.Dusty Miller about the study carried out byBALPA and the Royal Institute of Navigationon the use of true headings in preference tomagnetic. The core of Capt Miller’s presenta-tion was that since the potential for inaccura-cy caused by changes to local magnetic varia-tion were inherent, not to mention potentiallycatastrophic, thanks to the dangers of a socalled ‘magnetic flip’ or reverse in the earth’smagnetic field, the case for a change over toTrue headings for navigation was compelling.While Capt. Miller recognised that the scale ofthe work required to implement a changeoveris immense, he reminded delegates thatmuch of the work of re-calibration is carriedout anyway since VORs and NDBs are adjust-
Capt Terry Lutz (right) was elected by the ADO Committe asit’s Vice Chairman Design. He will be assisted in this roleby F/O Thomas Wieser (left).
The joint session ofthe ADO and ATSCommittees considercross- portfolio issues.
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July 2006
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ed to reflect changes in magnetic variations.Furthermore, he noted that as the these navigation aidsare progressively withdrawn the scale of the job willreduce. Capt Miller also reminded delegates that TheRoyal Institute of Navigation and BALPA are planning aseminar on the subject, in London in October, wherethe arguments for a change over to the use of Trueheadings will be presented.
ADO name Capt Terry Lutz as ViceChairman, DesignDuring the course of the meeting the ADO Committeeunanimously elected Capt. Terry Lutz as its ViceChairman, Design. Capt Lutz will be assisted in thiswork and hopefully eventually succeeded by F/OThomas Wieser. The effectiveness of the combinationwas clearly demonstrated by the quality of their presen-tation on steep approach testing of the A318 and E-170.
ATS propose four flimsies to ExecutiveBoardIn the course of its meeting, the first led by its newChairman Capt. Miguel Marin, the ATS Committee pro-posed no less than four flimsies to be put forward to theExecutive Board for adoption as Draft Policy, a move
Capt. Rip Torn has succeededCapt. Miguel Marin as the
ATS Committee ViceChairman.
now possible under the new Constitution. The Flimsiesproposed policies on North Atlantic communicationsloss procedures; RNP-RNAV Definitions; RNP-RNAVApproaches and ADS-B ASAS policy. A further task fac-ing the Committee was the election of a Vice Chairmanto replace Miguel Marin who was elected Chairman inIstanbul. The Committee selected by acclamation Capt. Robert ‘Rip’ Torn of US-ALPA.
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Safety School
Initial SafetyVolunteer Training
Launched at the 61st Conference in Istanbul in Aprilthis year , the IFALPA Safety School (ISS) takes theproven content of the Accident Investigator and AirportLiaison Representative seminars and marries themwith a training module that will give attendees a basicgrounding in the structure of the Federation as well asICAO. Completing the course, new safety volunteer will be
equipped with the knowledge and information to stepinto a external Representative role both for theFederation and their home Member Association. Inaddition, attendance at the ISS will also provide thefoundation which the Safety volunteer can use to goforward to advanced training and eventual accredita-tion as either an Airport Liaison Representative orAccident Prevention Advisor.
4 - 6 September 2006Johannesburg, South Africa
The ISS is offered by IFALPA free of charge to pilots nominated by their MemberAssociation . Attendees will be responsible for travel to the ISS as well as accommoda-tion and subsistence. To register or for more information about the ISS contact James
Eales, IFALPA Technical Officer Tel +44 1932 571711 or [email protected]
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July 2006
Accident Analysis Committeeconsider communicationsAccident Analysis Committeeconsider communications
32 Accident Analysis Committee (AAC) members repre-senting 23 Member Associations, together with sixobservers, including representatives from Airbus, ATR,Boeing and Alitalia and the Agenzia Nazionale per laSicurezza del Volo (–ANSV), met in Rome as guests ofthe Italian IFALPA Member Association, AssociazoneNazionale Piloti Aviazione Commerciale (ANPAC) fortheir first meeting in the 2007 Conference year. In addi-tion to the normal work of the Committee and standingitems on its agenda, the meeting gave the Committeethe opportunity to begin its input into the AccidentPrevention module of IFALPA’s Initial Safety Volunteertraining programme. The Initial Safety Volunteer train-ing programme will form the core of the IFALPA SafetySchool (ISS). Announced as an initiative during theIstanbul Conference, the ISS is due to runfor the first time as a ‘beta test’ inJohannesburg this September. The ISSwill be a three day programme initiallywith a day devoted to Accident Preventionissues, and naturally input from the AAC,on the content of the Accident Preventionand Investigation Module.
Communications SeminarPrior to getting down to the work of theCommittee , ANPAC together with ATRhosted a one-day seminar which lookedat the communications aspects of acci-dent investigations. Presented by BursonMarsteller Consulting, the training led
Committee Members through a series of ‘do’s and‘don’ts’ of dealing with the media. Attendees were thensplit into teams to approach an incident from four sep-arate angles, with two members from each groupselected as spokesmen and ‘interviewed’. Meanwhile,the other attendees had the opportunity to evaluate the‘interview’ and consider areas where the communica-tion effectiveness could be improved. The afternoonsession featured a presentation by Dulio Giammaria ofthe Italian TV station RAI on the role of the media andhow best to communicate with them.The Committee will hold its autumn meeting in Barra daTijuca, Brazil hosted by Sindicato Nacional dosAeronautas (SNA). Meanwhile the full report of theRome meeting is available on the IFALPA Intranet.
The AA Committeehave implementeda new agendadesigned allowmore time fordebate.
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July 2006
Stir it up: The impact ofbuilding induced
turbulence
Stir it up: The impact ofbuilding induced
turbulence
By Capt. Robert Brons
For a number of years the pilot community has voicedconcerns about the reliability and accuracy of reportedwind for takeoff and landing. Of course we are dealingwith a volatile and unstable atmosphere and as a resultthe wind is constantly changing in strength and direc-tion. The reported wind is, at best, a picture of the cur-rent wind conditions based on statistical data ratherthan an accurate picture of what is experienced duringthe flare, landing or rollout. As anyone with even a fewhours flight experience has found out, building-inducedwind disturbances will tend to magnify the natural gusti-ness and instability of the airflow. While even thenewest of student pilots knows that buildings induceturbulence, the question has always been just howmuch turbulence do they cause? Of course, withoutquantifiable data as evidence it has been difficult tolimit the proliferation of new buildings around and nearrunways.
…but that may be about to changeThe advent of computational fluid dynamics software,together with sophisticated mathematical wind modelswhich can display a graphic of the area of disturbedwind on the downwind side of a building and accurate-ly describe three dimensional wind patterns in the leeof an obstruction, is a significant step forward. Takingthe data from these resources and applying them in anexperimental simulator that is able to incorporate moredynamic variables has produced a more realistic testscenario.In 2004, the Dutch National Aerospace Laboratories(NLR), in association with the Dutch Air Line PilotsAssociation (VNV), began researching the impact of var-ious obstacles situated along a runway on the flyabilityof takeoffs and landings. The panel used a new windmodel developed by the NLR to represent wind patternsaround buildings and other obstacles. Then a theoreti-cal safety study was carried out and followed by ‘offline’
simulation runs in the F100 at the University of Delftand the B-747 at the NLR. In addition, pilot flown, realtime simulator experiments were conducted on theGrace simulator to validate the off line runs as well asintroduce human performance factors into the testregime.
Initial resultsWind disturbance induced by structures, or indeed ter-rain, can be divided into three components; windshear,turbulence and generated vortices. Studies indicatethat the vortices are carrying the wake further down-wind from the obstacle (up to 50 times the height of thebuilding). Early results indicate that unsurprisingly, air-craft controllability is most affected by windshear andturbulence and this impact is increased by the terrainsurrounding the buildings and runway. What is newinformation are the rates of gusts and the maximumgust values, which are significantly changed by thepresence of buildings and other obstacles. At Amsterdam, wind conditions have led to unstableapproaches and hard landings, or have resulted in latego-arounds. The availability of high quality modellingand simulation has highlighted these elements whichhave been obscured in the past as far as hard data isconcerned. These results clearly indicate the need forcriteria to limit building plans near runways. These lim-its and their definition are being studied by the workinggroup and it expects to produce preliminary codes inthe near future.
Robert Brons is a Captain with KLM flying the B-737. He is amember of the Federation’s Aircraft Design and OperationCommittee and represents IFALPA at the ICAO Committee onAviation Environmental Protection (CAEP).
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July 2006
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10th-12th
Human Performance Committee Meeting Singapore
Contact: James Eales [email protected]
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8th
2nd Executive Committee Meeting Warsaw, Poland
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2nd Executive Board Meeting Warsaw, Poland
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14th
North America Regional MeetingHerndon, USA
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Industrial Committee MeetingPrague, Czech Republic
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IFALPA Representative to ICAO Capt. Paul McCarthy hasbeen granted the prestigious Jim Collins MemorialAward which is presented annually by the award’strustees and NZALPA. In his nomination, Paul’s intimateinvolvement in a number of activities involving bothNZALPA and Civil Aviation in New Zealand were praised.These activities were brought into sharp relief in wakeof the Dash 8 crash at Palmerston North when he wasa key player in the process that produced NewZealand’s accident investigation standards whichinclude protection of privileged information, Standardswhich are now recognised globally. Paul is only the second non-New Zealander to be hon-oured with the award which is given in memory of Capt.Jim Collins who commanded the ill-fated Flt 901 whichcrashed on Mt Erebus in Antarctica in November 1979.
McCarthy honoured withCollins Award by NZALPA
Paul McCarthy (left) receives the CollinsAward from Capt. Stu Julian, EVP Asia Pacifc
