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New approaches to Safety Management Systems

As defined by the US FAA, a Safety Management System — or SMS — is the “formal, top-down, organisation-wide approach to managing safety risk and assuring the effectiveness of safety risk controls.” An SMS will include, according to the FAA, “systematic procedures, practices, and policies for the management of safety risk.”…

New lithium fire resistant cargo container highlights standards gap

With the ever-growing amount of lithium batteries being shipped by air across the world, the risk of hard-to-contain lithium-driven fires aboard aircraft — known technically as Class D fires — is complex to mitigate. Part of the problem in mitigation is that there is, as yet, no standard for containing…

Visual guidance systems deliver all-round operational clarity

Airlines can accrue bottom-line benefits from the use of cockpit visual guidance systems which enable increased operations in adverse weather, as Bernie Baldwin reports. “The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears.” This quote from George Orwell’s 1984 might not readily spring to mind when…

Satellite ADS-B means no more North Atlantic Tracks under 33,000 feet

The benefits of live satellite tracking are many — improved safety, more efficient operations, better information — but a step change has come with the recent adoption of new satellite-based ADS-B tracking. Conclusion of hard work within the industry before and during the COVID-19 pandemic now means that any flight at…

Inside Synhelion’s sunshine-to-SAF synfuel technology

Creating sustainable aviation fuel out of thin air using the power of the sun might sound like the stuff of science fiction, but Swiss carbon neutral fuel provider Synhelion is partnering with Lufthansa Group and member airline Swiss to do just that. Its new solar fuel uses water and carbon…

Storage and safety: hydrogen aircraft’s key challenges

Hydrogen-powered aircraft are set to be one of the key pillars of aviation’s decarbonisation efforts in its journey towards carbon emissions reduction and net-zero. But fundamental questions around hydrogen safety remain in two key areas. First come the internal industry questions — the technical answers to how it will work,…

Aviation’s evolving approach to flight deck and operational COVID safety

From pilots in head-to-toe hazmat suits to maskless flight decks, the iteration of aviation’s operational risk management procedures in the time of the COVID-19 pandemic is already the subject of much analysis — and will be so well into the future. With regulators, public health bodies and professional associations largely now…

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