La FAA emana nuove regole per migliorare entro 5 anni il training al simulatore

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E' di ieri la notizia che la FAA ha emanato nuove regole che imporranno alle compagnie aeree di adattare entro 5 anni i propri simulatori e programmi di addestramento, focalizzandoli maggiormente su argomenti specifici quali "Stall recovery, flight upset, crosswinds, gustwinds".

Tutto questo, a detta della stessa FAA, anche in risposta alla tragedia del Colgan Air Q400 schiantatosi a Buffalo nel 2009 a causa di uno stallo causato dal ghiaccio accumulatosi sulle ali dell'aereo non gestito in modo appropriato dal cpt.

Trattandosi poi di migliorare il training su situazioni anomale, anche rare ma potenzialmente catastrofiche, impossibile non pensare anche al volo AF447.

FAA on Tuesday issued a final rule that will give airlines and training providers five years to upgrade flight simulators and begin more comprehensive training of pilots for stall and upset incidents as well as for crosswind and gust events.The training update, as well as two other recent FAA rules, comes as a direct consequence of the crash of the Colgan Air Q400 near Buffalo, New York, in February 2009, after the captain inappropriately responded to a stall warning system alert. The update will be included in the FAA’s Part 121 training program and crewmember qualifications rules, set to be released later on Tuesday.
When announcing the rule change with FAA administrator Michael Huerta in Washington, US Department of Transportation (DOT) secretary Anthony Foxx praised families of the Colgan Air victims for turning “grief into action. Their advocacy brought new pilot fatigue rules and pilot qualification rules,” Foxx said. “Today we’re turning the page on another piece of safety rulemaking.” The families were also behind legislation in Congress that guided the FAA in developing key parts of the new rule.
Since the Colgan accident, FAA released new pilot flight and duty regulations, set to go live in January, to address fatigue issues, as well as new pilot qualifications that require first officers as of August this year to generally have 1,500 hr. of flight time and an air transport pilot (ATP) rating.
Huerta said the training rules, which he described as the “first fundamental rewrite” of training rules in 20 years, will give pilots the most advanced training available to handle the emergencies including upsets that are extremely rare but can be catastrophic. “They will have the skills and confidence to handle any event,” Huerta said.
Along with recognizing and recovering from full stalls and upsets as well as gusts, the update to Part 121 training rules requires pilots to learn to recover from the loss of airspeed data, an issue in the Air France Flight 447 crash in 2009.
Huerta said the new rule also requires pilots to spend more time manually flying the aircraft, and will teach the “pilot-monitoring” to better monitor the pilot-flying. In part to address the 2006 wrong-runway takeoff crash of a Comair CRJ100 in Lexington, Ky., the rule requires pilots to confirm assigned departure runways in the pre-departure brief, as well as to ensure the proper runway is entered into the aircraft¹s flight management system.
Most, if not all, of the enhanced training will take place in flight simulators.
Huerta said a companion rule requiring a boost in simulator fidelity to handle the new training scenarios is nearing completion and is currently “in executive review” at FAA.
The agency said the costs of implementing the rule, in part due to the simulator upgrades, will be as much as $354 million, while the benefits of accidents averted will be $689 million.

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“They will have the skills and confidence to handle any event,”

Quindi fino ad ora non li avevano ? Sarebbe anche bello se invece che aumentare sempre di piu' le ore di impiego cominciassero a ridurle .