Enhancing Terrain Awareness
This briefing provides a set of operational recommendations and training guidelines to establish and maintain the desired level of terrain awareness…. Continue Reading →
Erroneous ILS Indications Pose Risk of CFIT
Several incidents involved flight crews who observed normal, on-course instrument landing system (ILS) indications although their aircraft were not established on the glideslope or on the localizer course…. Continue Reading →
Factors to Consider Before an Emergency Evacuation
Flight crews must consider many factors in deciding whether to order an evacuation…. Continue Reading →
Flightcrew response to In-Flight Smoke, Fire, or Fumes
Smoke, fire, or fume (SFF) events can occur suddenly in commercial airplanes. Yet information about the source of the event may be vague, incomplete, inaccurate, or contradictory. Additionally, there is a wide range of possible sources and situations…. Continue Reading →
GPWS Safety Alert
An FSF CFIT Safety Alert distributed to thousands of operators worldwide, emphasizes the importance of an immediate and decisive response by flight crews to ground-proximity warning system (GPWS) warnings…. Continue Reading →
Getting To Grips With Cabin Safety
This Airbus brochure is a comprehensive review of Cabin Crew Emergency Procedures, incorporating Fire, Smoke, Emergency Evacuation, Ditching, Cabin Depressurization and Crew Resource Management. The aim of « Getting to Grips with Cabin Safety » is to provide Operators with guidance to develop procedures to implement their own cabin safety program, which is customized to the Operator’s…… Continue Reading →
Glideslope Unusable
It took a moment, at a bad time, for the pilots to decipher an unexpected and unuasual clearance… Continue Reading →
High Stakes in language Proficiency
In an effort to reduce accidents involving communication deficiencies, ICAO is requiring pilots, controllers and aeronautical station operators involved in international operations to be tested for their ability to speak and understand English. At stake are careers, industry investment in training and testing – and safety…. Continue Reading →
Identified Threats when Transitioning from IMC to VMC
The pilots were looking out the windshield, anticipating visual contact with the runway, when the A300 descended below minimums at Birmingham…. Continue Reading →
Inflight Fire – Important to React Quickly
Within 15 minutes of receiving indications of a fire on the main cargo deck the night of July 28, 2011, the flight crew of an Asiana Airlines Boeing 747-400 freighter found that they could neither reach a nearby airport nor conduct a controlled ditching in the Yellow Sea below… Continue Reading →
Language Barrier
After a simple error wiped out much of their navigation information, the Polish pilots of a 737 were unable to adequately communicate their problem to British controllers… Continue Reading →
Lessons from the Dawn of Ultra Long Range Flight
Validation studies of nonstop flights between Singapore and the United States show that recommended operational guidelines developed by Flight Safety Foundation can help airlines worldwide to expand their operational envelope while maintaining safety…. Continue Reading →
Lithium Batteries – Risk Mitigation Guidance for Operators
This guide is designed to outline potential strategies airlines may wish to consider to reduce the risks associated with the transport of lithium batteries. These strategies address the carriage of lithium batteries as cargo on passenger and cargo aircraft as well as in passenger and crew checked and carry-on baggage…. Continue Reading →
Managing Uneven Brakes Temperature
Operators typically purchase twin-aisle airplanes for long-distance flights. However, when market conditions dictate, operators may use some of these airplanes on shorter flights. In such instances, appropriate action by the flight crew can reduce the likelihood of brake overheating and concomitant departure delays…. Continue Reading →
Margin for Error
Airplanes continue to run off the ends of runways lacking adequate overrun areas with disastrous consequences, yet acceptance of a unified standard for overrun areas and installation of safety areas where they are needed generally remain slow. Civil aviation authorities worldwide appear to have given a mixed reception to recent changes in international airport design…… Continue Reading →