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Magazine Issue

Business & Commercial Aviation June 2014

VOL. 110 NO. 6 June 01, 2014

Intelligence

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Fast Five

Jun 01, 2014
John Cudahy President, International Council of Air Shows (ICAS), Leesburg, Va.

Washington Watch

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GA Community Takes On Fatal Accident Rate

Jun 26, 2014
Recently aviation’s alphabet groups in Washington, D.C., joined FAA in an eight-month “Got Weather?” national safety campaign.

Safety

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Business Aviation ASAPs

Jun 01, 2014
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Human Factors Expertise Wanted

Jun 01, 2014
One of the Aviation Safety Action Program’s most important goals is to address problems at the company level, particularly conditions that might cause further incidents. This requires Event Review Committee members who are motivated to search out the underlying causes and smart enough to recognize them when found. Unfortunately, too often committee members lack sufficient understanding of human factors.
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Protection of Volunteered Information

Jun 01, 2014
In today’s litigious society, it’s a given that lawyers representing accident victims will try to access a company’s safety data in order to show that it failed to take all prudent steps to prevent the mishap. Obviously there needs to be a balance between the protection of accident data and the administration of justice, regulatory action and the public’s right to know.
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Team LOSA, ASAP and FOQA and How They Supplement Each Other

Jun 01, 2014
Line Operations Safety Audits (LOSA), Aviation Action Safety Programs (ASAP) and Flight Operations Quality Assurance (FOQA) programs complement each other. All provide useful data for an operator’s safety management system (SMS).

Operations

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Protecting Crew and Passengers From Health Hazards When Flying Abroad

Jun 01, 2014
It's one of your worst nightmares. You’ve captained a trip to a remote area of an African country, and your first officer and one of the executive passengers have contracted a local disease — maybe dengue fever, but you’re not sure. The trip came up fast, and researching disease hazards and health care infrastructure was definitely not on your mind. But it sure is now, as you scramble to cope with a situation you never had time to envision.