Dear Readers,

Welcome to our July edition.

By now I have the feeling that July wishes to be April. First it is really warm, sunny, perfect and now we have rain and it is way too cold. Lets hope that August does not pick up where July let of.
At least the aviation industry is slowly recovering. People start to fly again and many flights are fully booked. This always tells me one important thing: it’s holiday season!

Georg Stöcker defines terms used in Aviation for us in the main article .

Also included are a couple of short topics .

In the not so distant future there are our courses, of course. Please have a look at the open course status and our course updates.

This month we have several job offers and you can of course continue to send us your job offers.

Have a great August!

Terms used in Aviation

In our daily business we are permanently confronted with terminology. We use words/terms for a specific item not knowing whether the recipient of our message uses this term in the same way, i.e. understands what we want to say. This is also a very important subject of „Human Factors“ training, “Communication“.
How can we improve that situation? Very easy. We have to use a common terminology, first define the terms we use.

Hereinafter I want to give a few examples of terms we constantly use and I want to ask you: “Can you give an explanation what the terms mean? “ Think about it, these are terminologies we constantly use.

Let us talk about the term “AIRCRAFT“. What is an aircraft? We own an aircraft or we operate it or we work on it. But, can we explain to another person what an aircraft is?
Definitions I found are the following:

Aircraft. Any machine that can derive support in the atmosphere from the reactions of the air other than the reactions of the air against the earth’s surface.

(Annex 8 to the Convention on International Civil Aviation: “Airworthiness of Aircraft“)

Aircraft means a device that is used or intended to be used for flight in the air.

(Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) Title 14 Aeronautics and Space Part 1 “Definitions and Abbreviations“)

Looking at the definition given by ICAO, the term aircraft stands for all vehicles that move in the air. But, those types are exempted which use the “reaction of the air against the earth’s surface“, i.e. vehicles such as Hovercraft or Ground Effect Vehicle (GEV), also known as Ekranoplane. Examples of Ekranoplanes are the “Caspian Sea Monster“, or

the Boeing “Pelican“.

When we talk about Aircraft, what vehicles fall under this terminology?
Part of the Swiss regulations is a “classification scheme“ in the Annex to Regulation No. 748.01 (Verordnung über die Luftfahrt, Luftfahrtverordnung, LFV) which I find very helpful.

In general we differ between “lighter than air aircraft“ and “heavier than air aircraft“.

In both classes we differ between “engine-driven“ and “non-engine-driven“.

The category “lighter than air aircraft non-engine-driven“ includes “BALLOONS“.
The category “lighter than air aircraft engine-driven“ includes “AIRSHIPS“.
In the category “heavier than air aircraft engine-driven“ we talk about “ROTORCRAFT“ and “AEROPLANES“.
In the category “heavier than air aircraft non-engine-driven“ we talk about “SAILPLANE“, “HANG GLIDER“, “PARACHUTE“, “KITE“.

With respect to these different types of aircraft I found the following definitions:

Balloon means a lighter-than-air aircraft that is not engine driven, and that sustains flight through the use of either gas buoyancy or an airborne heater.
(Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) Title 14 Aeronautics and Space Part 1 “Definitions and Abbreviations“)

Airship means an engine-driven lighter-than-air aircraft that can be steered.
(Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) Title 14 Aeronautics and Space Part 1 “Definitions and Abbreviations“)

Rotorcraft means a heavier-than-air aircraft that depends principally for its support in flight on the lift generated by one or more rotors.
(Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) Title 14 Aeronautics and Space Part 1 “Definitions and Abbreviations“)

Aeroplane. A power-driven heavier-than-air aircraft, deriving its lift in flight chiefly from aerodynamic reactions on surfaces which remain fixed under given conditions of flight.
(Annex 8 to the Convention on International Civil Aviation: “Airworthiness of Aircraft“)

Airplane means an engine-driven fixed-wing aircraft heavier than air, that is supported in flight by the dynamic reaction of the air against its wings.
(Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) Title 14 Aeronautics and Space Part 1 “Definitions and Abbreviations“)

With these definitions you have now the possibility to briefly explain to your friends, not being involved in the aviation business, which flying objects exist.

Notices of Proposed Amendments (NPAs)

FAA Finalises Recurrent Aircraft Registration Rule

In an effort to create a more accurate aircraft registration database, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is requiring re-registration of all civil aircraft over the next three years and renewal every three years after that.

The rule establishes specific expiration dates over a three-year period for all aircraft registered before Oct. 1, 2010, and requires re-registration of those aircraft according to a specific schedule. All aircraft registration certificates issued on or after Oct. 1, 2010 will be good for three years with the expiration date clearly shown.

And a bit of fun on the side

While preparing the newsletter article for the July edition of our newsletter I searched around on the internet for information, as so often. Hereby I also reviewed videos to verify whether there is something interesting to be used in writing this article.

During that research I stumbled over the videos which cover a different subject as that in the article itself but it is also a very important subject.

EU OPS 1 requires the following:

„OPS 1.285 Passenger briefing
An operator shall ensure that:
(a) General
1. Passengers are given a verbal briefing about safety matters. Parts or all of the briefing may be provided by an audiovisual presentation.
...“

If you follow the links you will find different possibilities how to do that.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFjVbiPzwpI&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvdCFYLf_JI&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCX2JjqLOGk&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MgpzUo_kbFY&feature=related

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