This manual is designed as a guide to the procedures to be used for all aspects of aircraft tire care and operation. It provides detailed information about how to operate aircraft tires to achieve optimum service. It also covers installation, removal and servicing techniques. It should be used in conjunction with the operating procedures given…… Continue Reading →
This briefing provides an overview of the scope and use of normal checklists, and the factors and conditions that may affect the normal flow and completion of normal checklists…. Continue Reading →
In recent years, there have been a number of flights where passengers or crew suffered injuries due to severe turbulence. In some other instances, the aircraft structure was substantially damaged following a hailstorm encounter. Clearly adverse weather can pose a threat to the safe and comfortable completion of a flight, thus it needs to be…… Continue Reading →
The term ''optimum use of automation'' used in this Airbus document refers to the integrated and coordinated use of the following systems:… Continue Reading →
The aim of this Briefing Note is to provide additional information about weather radar capabilities and limitations, in order to improve the flight crew's overall understanding of the system, and to help prevent such incidents from occurring…. Continue Reading →
This Airbus Flight Operations Briefing Note provides an overview of:… Continue Reading →
This document is a very interesting technical explanation of the potential fuel vapor ignition in case of a specific combination of several factors. This brochure has been released 2 years after the TWA 747 inflight explosion…. Continue Reading →
This Airbus technical memo has been published short time after the crash of an American Airline A300-600 on takeoff from New-York… Continue Reading →
The onboard Traffic Collision Avoidance System (TCAS) was developed to prevent mid-air collision, particularly in case Air Traffic Controller guidance is incorrect. This Airbus document is an excelent TCAS summary for Airbus pilots (and also for the others…)… Continue Reading →
The idea to taxi aircraft without the main engine thrust is not recent. When Aerospatiale’s (one of Airbus’ founder partners) design office provided its conclusions on a study for “motorized wheels for autonomous taxiing for a 76 tonnes subsonic aircraft” back in 1977, the technology and oil prices were not at today’s high level, making…… Continue Reading →