Safety Experience: Inadvertent Actions on Cockpit Overhead Panel
A320 Family Inadvertent actions on cockpit overhead panel What happened? On A320, cases have been reported where ADIRS rotary selector was inadvertently turned OFF during flight, by contact with the CAPT sun visor when deployed or stowed. The subsequent incorrect use of ADIRS controls can then lead to loss of AP and in some cases flight envelope protections. Let’s analyse the system […]
Preventing Inadvertent Slide Deployments
Preventing Inadvertent Slide Deployments Inadvertent Slide Deployments (ISDs) can occur, and may cause serious injury of operatives inside the cabin or outside the aircraft. ISDs also have economic impacts and cause operational disruptions. Cabin Crew Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) The main causes of ISDs are non-compliance with Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), and operatives being distracted whilst operating […]
Understanding, Anticipating and Handling Windshear
Understanding Windshear Definition Windshear can be defined as a sudden change in wind velocity and/or direction over a short distance. It can occur in all directions, but for convenience, it is considered along vertical and horizontal axis, thus introducing the concepts of vertical and horizontal windshear: This weather phenomenon can occur at many different levels […]