SafetyFocus
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2013
Quarterly Journal on African aviation safety - vol 3
IN THIS ISSUE:
Deploying aircraft slides by accident
Aviation English & its role in safety
TLS: A Precision Approach for remote airports
Lifestyle & fatigue
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Director's message | Inspirational Kigali
Taking the Foundation to new territory
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Safety Calendar | Events in or relevant to the region
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Foundation & safety news | News for/from the region
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Lifestyle safety | Get safety in your life
Items and ideas to submerge yourself in safety
10 Cabin safety | Unintentional slide deployment
How to avoid emergency slide deployment if you don't want it
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14 Strategic issues | Language gap
Communication failures and the role of aviation English
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Airport Operations | Airport Rescue & Fire Fighting
Photo impression of the 2013 edition training in Rwanda
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Seminar | 2Gether 4Safety
Get a glimpse of our 2014 seminar in Entebbe, Uganda
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Flight Tech | New approach
A new landing system for 'terrain challenged' airports
26 Info scan | Before and after
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Cover photo: Kigali Airport's fire station overlooking a rainy apron, during the Foundation's annual Airport
Rescue & Fire Fighting training
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Fatigue inducing stress brought into the cockpit
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DIRECTOR'S | MESSAGE
Inspirational
Kigali
As the wheels of the Kenya Airways Embraer
touched down in Kigali, I got increasinly excited
about this landmark visit: taking the Foundation's
program to yet another country.
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ne of the younger members of the East African Community, Rwanda proved to be a welcoming country. With clear, concise communication being one of the key ingredients of a mature
safety culture, the omen’s for my trip had been good.
Rwanda's performance on the ICAO eight critical
elements of safety oversight is close to the global average on most points.
And its airline Rwandair is doing its bit to support
the government's ambitions to turn Kigali into a
centre for the country's knowledge based economy.
A major convention centre is under construction to
turn Kigali into a preferred venue for international
events and thus bring international knowledge to
this tiny country.
It was Rwanda’s Gaston Buramba’s lively participation in our 2009 Airport Wildlife Management
course at Kilimanjaro International Airport that had
sown the seed for our deployment to Rwanda.
From the moment of my arrival, Rwanda’s inspirational status became apparent. As a former student
of African studies, reading Stephen Kinzer’s book
‘Thousand Hills’, gave me an insight in the remarkable story of this country. Kinzer also gave a remarkable insight in the aspirations of Rwanda's government.
Rwanda saw the second deployment of our safety
campus this year.
Increasingly, the Foundation bundles its events in
what we like to call a safety campus. We will pitch
up the Foundation’s expertise in one location for three
or four events. That reduces deployment costs for the
Foundation and makes it a true ‘shot of safety updates’.
This year, we added a number of courses to the campus. In May, we added our IATA Dangerous Goods
course to the safety campus.
I am also quite excited about the aviation English
course that we have added from our Rwanda deployment. Very few of such courses are available in the region. As it was our first time to deploy this course, I sat
in for the duration to verify its quality. I must admit
I had to get used to this course as another beast. It
doesn’t have power point at its heart but is all about
talking, conversing and understanding. The trainees
had to present. The
n the coming year, we hope to expand with a short
introduction in airworthiness certification too.
That would be added to the safety campus from
2014 onwards. Then we are also exploring options for
an airport medical course and a marshaller’s course.
Over the coming years, we will continue to expand
the events in the safety campus as well as hopefully
increase the number of safety campuses per year.
As with most of our courses, we make available most
of the training materials to the participants to help
them build the training capacity in their own organization too. From there, those organizations can proceed to getting their courses certified if they want.
Get in touch with us on Facebook to let us know what
short courses you would like the Foundation to offer
as part of the campus and we’ll look into it.
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The trip to Rwanda was also a landmark in another
way. It signaled the start of our partnership with Turkish Airlines for the provision of transport to the Foundation.
Welcome on board, Turkish Airlines!
Tom
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SAFETY | CALENDAR
NOV 11-15Runway Safety Seminar for
CASSOA States, CASSOA, AviAssist Foundation &
ICAO- Nairobi, Entebbe, Uganda, registration and
more info at <info@aviassist.org>
DEC 10-12 ICAO Multicrew Pilot License
Symposium, Montreal, Canada <www.icao.int/
meetings/mpl>, for more information contact
< MPL@icao.int>
NOV 24-26 AFRAA Annual General Meeting,
African Regional Airlines Association AFRAA,
Nairobi, Kenya, <www.afraa.org>, for more
information contact <afraa@afraa.org>
JAN 26-27 Airside Safety Training Course,
Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, more
information via <jaato.com/courses/74/>, for
more information contact <training@jaat.eu>
DEC 2-4 Aviation auditor (entry level) ,
Litson and Associates, Lanseria, Johannesburg,
South Africa, < www.litsonandassociates.com>,
for more information contact <enquiries@
litsonandassociates.com >
JAN 31 6th International Aircraft
Repossession conference, Chandigarh, India,
<www.aeropodium.com/cp/aircraftrepoindia.
html>, for more information contact <register@
aeropodium.com>
DEC 9-13 ICAO Air Services Negotiation
Conference (ICAN 2013) , Durban, South Africa
<www.icao.int/meetings/ican2013>, for more
information contact < ican2013@icao.int >
FEB 17-19Auditing Techniques for
Authorities, Amsterdam, the Netherlands,
SGI Aviation <www.sgiaviation.com/site/ID/
training2014>, for more information contact
<ftimmerman@sgiaviation.com>
DEC 10-12 ICAO Next Generation of
Aviation Professionals (NGAP) Symposium,
Johannesburg, South Africa, <www.icao.int/
safety/TrainairPlus/Pages/RegionalSymposia.
aspx>, <trainairplus@icao.int >
MAR 10-11 2Gether 4Safety seminar & expo,
Africa's professional development safety seminar
AviAssist Foundation, Entebbe, Uganda, more
information at <www.aviassist.org>, contact
<events@aviassist.org>
MAR 19-21 MRO Africa Conference &
Exhibition, Johannesburg, South Africa
<www.africanaviation.com/Home.html>, for
more information contact <conferences@
africanaviation.com>
MAY 5-9 53rd IFATCA Annual Conference,
Gran Canaria, Spain, <www.ifatca2014.com/>, for
more information contact <office@ifatca.org>
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MAR 3-7IATA Dangerous Goods course category 6, AviAssist Foundation, Entebbe,
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