Dealing with Unreliable Speed at Recurrent Training

Capt. Roman HurychFlight Chief Instructor

April 28th, 2010

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• Our decision to deal with unreliable speed

• The contents of the session

• How the crews were doing

• An incident on our flight

– What happened

– Desription of flight and events

– Lesson learned

– Conclusion?

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1. Decision to deal with unreliable speed

• Unexpected tragedy over the Atlantic Ocean

• How are the crews trained? – Type rating only?

Is That Sufficient?

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2. The Contents of The Session• Regular flight from Prague to Moscow

• Briefing

• Informing all pilots about the contents of the session

• Recommended documentation• Presentation

• FCOM

• QRH

• FCTM

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2. The Contents of The Session

• Briefing

– Unreliable speed presentation, memory items

– Crew preparation of the flight

• Flight Figures

ZFW: 56 197kg Fuel: 13300kg TOW: 69397kg

ZFW CG: 32,99% TOW CG: 30,68%

PAX: 141

Conf. 1+F Engine A/I: OFF

Flex 59 V1 155 VR 155 V2 156

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2. The Contents of The Session

• Flight Figures

MEL Item: APU Inop.

Low Oil level before the flight

• Weather

LKPR: 030/4 10 km BKN 4300 20/11 QNH 1021

UUEE: 200/2 kt 10 km BKN 3600 23/14 QNH 1012

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2. The Contents of The Session

• Flight

– Normal take off

– Passing FL100 – Loss of STBY pitot

– Avoiding frequent thunderstorms

– Reaching FL370 - Airspeed chanell ADR fault 1+2

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– Emergency declared

– Decision to return back to Prague

– Descent and preparation for approach and landing

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3. How the Crews were doing?

– Very professional performance at most cases

– Predicting something what was not happening

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4. An Incident On Our Flight

– Regular flight from Prague to Moscow

– Crew of Three – Line Training Flight

– Trained Captain as PF

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4. An Incident On Our Flight

– Normal Take Off

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4. An Incident On Our Flight

– Normal Take Off

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4. An Incident On Our Flight

– Climb out

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4. An Incident On Our Flight

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• What have we learned?

• Any conclusion?

– Experienced instructor in the cockpit

– His experience from the simulator sessions

– NOT EACH PILOT HAS THE SAME CHANCE

• THINK OF SESSION LIKE THIS FOR YOUR PILOTS

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Not much time to findthe proper values.

THINK ABOUT IT

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What will be next?

LOFT – Dual Engine Failure

…..shortly I´ll start working on next presentation

Thank you for your attention