Federal Aviation Administration FAA/Industry Rotorcraft Forum FAA Rotorcraft Directorate Update Presented to: FAA/Industry Rotorcraft Forum (Ft. Worth, TX) By: Larry M. Kelly - Manager, Rotorcraft Standards Staff & Jorge R. Castillo - Manager, Regulations & Policy Date: January 23, 2013
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Federal Aviation Administration
FAA/Industry
Rotorcraft Forum
FAA Rotorcraft
Directorate Update
Presented to: FAA/Industry Rotorcraft Forum (Ft. Worth, TX)
By: Larry M. Kelly - Manager, Rotorcraft Standards Staff &
Jorge R. Castillo - Manager, Regulations & Policy
Date: January 23, 2013
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Overview
• Rotorcraft Safety Challenge
• FAA Rotorcraft Directorate (RD)
Organization & Responsibilities
• Status of Rotorcraft Advisory Circulars
(ACs) & Policies
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External Load 1.9%6 Other Categories
1.5% Aerial Observation
3.3%
Business 4.7%
Positioning 4.9%
Other Work 7.4%
EMS 7.8%
Public Use 7.8%
Instruction/Training
21.7%
Personal/Private
20.0%
Not Categorized 9.3%
Aerial Application
8.2%
Flight Test 1.4%
Rotorcraft Accidents by NTSB Classification 10 Years from CY01 to CY10 – 1,672 Accidents
Personal/Private 20.0%
External Load 1.9% Aerial Observation 3.3%
Business 4.7%
Positioning 4.9%
Other Work 7.4%
EMS 7.8%
Public Use 7.8%
Aerial Application 8.2%
Instruction/Training 21.7%
Flight Test 1.4%
Not Categorized 9.3%
6 Other Categories 1.5%
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Summary of Accident Contributing
Categories
• Personal/Private: – Account for approximately 20 - 25% of helicopter accidents.
– Based on estimated operating hours, contribute roughly 6 times their “fair share.”
• Instruction/Training: – Account for approximately 20% of helicopter accidents.
– Contribute roughly 1 - 2 times their fair share.
• Aerial Application: – Thru 2007, approximately 8% of helicopter accidents.
– Thru 2007, contributed roughly their fair share.
– An alarming increase in recent years: 18% in 2010, 22% in 2011, 14% in 2012.
– Now contribute approximately 3 - 5 times their fair share.
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Top Accident Causes and Contributing
Factors • Loss of Control:
– 41% of Personal/Private
– 61% of Instructional/Training
– 32% of Aerial Applications
• Pilot Judgment and Actions: – 90% of Personal/Private
– 93% of Instructional/Training
– 67% of Aerial Applications
• Most Common Errors: – Performance management, i.e. insufficient power
– Exceeding published aircraft operating limits
– Loss of tail rotor authority
– Interference with controls
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Where are the Safety Opportunities? • Three types of operations account for 50 to 60% of the
rotorcraft accidents. – Personal/private
– Instruction/training
– Aerial applications
• Each of these operations contributes more than its “fair share” to the number of accidents.
• For these “high offender” categories, the following are the most significant contributors – – Loss of Control
– Pilot Judgment/Action
• Conclusion: We must enable the pilot to make better decisions
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What Role Will Technology Play in
Rotorcraft Safety?
• Improve Safety?
– Improved situation awareness
– Training enhancements
– Smart power management
– Smart cockpit
• Diminish Safety?
– Distracting or misleading information
– Snow tire syndrome
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The Rotorcraft Safety Challenge
• Recognize that rotorcraft are unique aircraft, with unique safety challenges that may not lend themselves to fixed-wing solutions.
• Determine how to use technology to improve rotorcraft safety, particularly in “high offender” operations.
• Find means to encourage practical and economical installations of safety enhancing systems – which may require that we broaden our concept of “safety” to include an evaluation of both risks and benefits.
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Associate Administrator for Aviation Safety
AVS - 1 Nicholas Sabatini, AVS - 1 Margaret Gilligan, AVS - 2
Flight Standards Service ( AFS )
Office of Aerospace Medicine ( AAM )
Aircraft Certificati on Service ( AIR )
Office of Accident
Investigation & Prevention
(AVP)
Office of Rulema k ing ( ARM )
CAMI
15
Field O f fices 39
Field Offices
Registry
109
Field Offices
9 Regions
4
Directorates
8 Regions
Associate Administrator for Aviation Safety
AVS-1 Peggy Gilligan, AVS-1 John Hickey, AVS-2
Office of Quality
Integ., & Exec. Services
(AQS)
Air Traffic Safety
Oversight Service, (AOV)
AVS Organizational Structure
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Rotorcraft Directorate (RD)
Kim Smith, Directorate Manager, ASW-100
Lance Gant, Asst. Directorate Mgr., ASW-101
Larry Kelly, Rotorcraft Standards Staff Manager, ASW-110