Issued: 20-MAY-1997 | To: FAA | A-97-31 |
REQUIRE AIR CARRIERS TO REFLECT FAA-APPROVED MINIMUM AIRSPEEDS FOR ALL FLAP SETTINGS & PHASES OF FLIGHT, INCLUDING FLIGHT IN ICING CONDITIONS, IN THEIR EMB-120 OPERATING MANUALS. (Closed - Acceptable Action) |
Issued: 20-MAY-1997 | To: FAA | A-97-32 |
ENSURE THAT THE DE-ICING INFO & PROCEDURES IN AIR CARRIER\'S EMB-120 OPERATING MANUALS & TRAINING PROGRAMS ARE CONSISTENT WITH THE REVISED EMBRAER EMB-120 AIRPLANE FLIGHT MANUAL. (Closed - Acceptable Action) |
Issued: 20-MAY-1997 | To: FAA | A-97-33 |
DIRECT PRINCIPAL OPERATIONAL INSPECTORS (POIS) TO ENSURE THAT ALL EMB-120 OPERATORS PROVIDE FLIGHTCREWS WITH TRAINING THAT EMPHASIZES THE RECOGNITION OF ICING CONDITIONS & THE NEED TO ADHERE TO TO THE PROCEDURE FOR USING DE-ICE BOOTS THAT IS SPECIFIED IN THE REVISED EMBRAER EMB-120 AIRPLANE FLIGHT MANUAL. (Closed - Acceptable Action) |
Issued: 20-MAY-1997 | To: FAA | A-97-34 |
REQUIRE THAT ALL EMB-120 AIRCRAFT BE EQUIPPED WITH AUTOMATED ICE DETECTION & CREW ALERTING SYSTEMS FOR DETECTING AIRFRAME ICE ACCRETION. (Closed - Acceptable Action) |
Issued: 30-NOV-1998 | To: FAA | A-98-100 |
When the revised icing certification standards and criteria are complete, review the icing certification of all turbopropeller-driven airplanes that are currently certificated for operation in icing conditions and perform additional testing and take action as required to ensure that these fulfill the requirements of the revised icing certification standards. (Superseded by A-07-16) (Closed - Unacceptable Action/Superseded) |
Issued: 30-NOV-1998 | To: FAA | A-98-101 |
Review turbopropeller-driven airplane manufacturers\' airplane flight manuals and air carrier flightcrew operating manuals (where applicable) to ensure that these manuals provide operational procedures for flight in icing conditions, including the activation of leading edge deicing boots, the use of increased airspeeds, and disengagement of autopilot systems before entering icing conditions (that is, when other anti-icing systems have traditionally been activated). (Closed - Acceptable Action) |
Issued: 30-NOV-1998 | To: FAA | A-98-102 |
Require air carriers to adopt the operating procedure contained in the manufacturer\'s airplane flight manual and subsequent approved revisions or provide written justification that an equivalent safety level results from an alternative procedure. (Open - Acceptable Response) |
Issued: 30-NOV-1998 | To: FAA | A-98-103 |
Ensure that flight standards personnel at all level (from aircraft evaluation groups to certificate management offices) are informed about all manufacturer operational bulletins and airplane flight manual revisions, including the background and justification for the revision. (Closed - Acceptable Action) |
Issued: 30-NOV-1998 | To: FAA | A-98-104 |
Revise its current EMB-120 flight data recorder (FDR) system inspection procedure to include a FDR readout and evaluation of parameter values from normal operations to ensure a more accurate assessment of the operating status of the flight control position sensors on board the airplane. (Closed - Acceptable Alternate Action) |
Issued: 30-NOV-1998 | To: FAA | A-98-105 |
Reemphasize to pilots, on a periodic basis, their responsibility to report meteorological conditions that may adversely affect the safety of other flights, such as in-flight icing and turbulence, to the appropriate facility as soon as practicable. (Closed - Acceptable Action) |
Issued: 30-NOV-1998 | To: FAA | A-98-106 |
Amend FAA Order 7110.65, "Air Traffic Control," to require that automatic terminal information service broadcasts include information regarding the existence of pilot reports of icing conditions in the airport terminal\'s environment (and adjacent airport terminal environments as meteorologically pertinent and operationally feasible) as soon as practicable after receipt of the pilot report. (Closed - Reconsidered) |
Issued: 30-NOV-1998 | To: NASA | A-98-107 |
With the FAA and other interested aviation organizations, organize and implement an industry-wide training effort to educate manufacturers, operators, and pilots of air carrier and general aviation turbopropeller-driven airplanes regarding the hazards of thin, possibly imperceptible, rough ice accumulations, the importance of activating the leading edge deicing boots as soon as the airplane enters icing conditions (for those airplanes in which ice bridging is not a concern), and the importance of maintaining minimum airspeeds in icing conditions. (Closed - Acceptable Action) |
Issued: 30-NOV-1998 | To: NASA | A-98-108 |
With the FAA and other interested aviation organizations, conduct additional research to identify realistic ice accumulations, to include intercycle and residual ice accumulations and ice accumulations on unprotected surfaces aft of the deicing boots, and to determine the effects and criticality of such ice accumulations; further, the information developed through such research should be incorporated into aircraft certification requirements and pilot training programs at all levels. (Closed - Acceptable Action) |
Issued: 30-NOV-1998 | To: FAA | A-98-88 |
Amend the definition of trace ice contained in FAA order 7110.101, "Flight Services," (and in other FAA documents as applicable) so that it does not indicate that trace icing is not hazardous. (Closed - Acceptable Action) |
Issued: 30-NOV-1998 | To: FAA | A-98-89 |
Require principal operation inspectors (POIs) to discuss the information contained in airplane flight manual revisions and/or manufacturers\' operational bulletins with affected air carrier operators and, if the POI determines that the information contained in those publications is important information for flight operations, to encourage the affected air carrier operators to share that information with the pilots who are operating those airplanes. (Open - Acceptable Response) |
Issued: 30-NOV-1998 | To: FAA | A-98-90 |
With the NASA and other interested aviation organizations, organize and implement an industry-wide training effort to educate manufacturers, operators, and pilots of air carrier and general aviation turbopropeller driven airplanes regarding the hazards to thin, possibly imperceptible, rough ice accumulations, the importance of activating the leading edge deicing boots as soon as the airplane enters icing conditions (for those airplanes in which bridging is not a concern), and the importance of maintaining minimum airspeeds in icing conditions. (Closed - Acceptable Action) |
Issued: 30-NOV-1998 | To: FAA | A-98-91 |
Require manufacturers and operators of modern turbopropeller-driven airplanes in which ice bridging is not a concern to review and revise the guidance contained in their manuals and training programs to include updated icing information and to emphasize that leading edge deicing boots should be activated as soon as the airplane enters icing conditions. (Superseded by A-07-14) (Closed - Unacceptable Action/Superseded) |
Issued: 30-NOV-1998 | To: FAA | A-98-92 |
With the NASA and other interested aviation organizations, conduct additional research to identify realistic ice accumulations, to include intercycle and residual ice accumulations and ice accumulations on unprotected surfaces aft of the deicing boots, and to determine the effects and criticality of such ice accumulations; further, the information developed through such research should be incorporated into aircraft certification requirements and pilot training programs at all levels. (Closed - Acceptable Action) |
Issued: 30-NOV-1998 | To: FAA | A-98-93 |
Actively pursue research with airframe manufacturers and other industry personnel to develop effective ice detection/protection systems that will keep critical airplane surfaces free of ice; then require their installation on newly manufactured and in service airplanes certificated for flight in icing conditions. (Closed - Unacceptable Action) |
Issued: 30-NOV-1998 | To: FAA | A-98-94 |
Require manufacturers of all turbine-engine driven airplanes (including the EMB-120) to provide minimum maneuvering airspeed information for all airplane configurations, phases, and conditions of flight (icing and nonicing conditions); minimum airspeeds also should take into consideration the effects of various types, amounts, locations of ice accumulation, including thin amounts of very rough ice, ice accumulated in supercooled large droplet icing conditions, and tailpane icing. (Closed - Acceptable Action) |
Issued: 30-NOV-1998 | To: FAA | A-98-95 |
Require the operators of all turbine-engine driven airplanes (including the EMB-120) to incorporate the manufacturer\'s minimum maneuvering airspeeds for various airplane configurations and phases and conditions of flight in their operating manuals and pilot training programs in a clear and concise manner, with emphasis on maintaining minimum safe airspeeds while operating in icing conditions. (Closed - Acceptable Alternate Action) |
Issued: 30-NOV-1998 | To: FAA | A-98-96 |
Require the manufacturers and operators of all airplanes that are certificated to operate in icing conditions to install stall warning/protection systems that provide a cockpit warning (aural warning and/or stick shaker) before the onset of stall when the airplane is operating in icing conditions. (Closed - Unacceptable Action) |
Issued: 30-NOV-1998 | To: FAA | A-98-97 |
Require all operators of turbopropeller-driver air carrier airplanes to require pilots to disengage the autopilot and fly the airplane manually when they activate the anti-ice systems. (Closed - Unacceptable Action) |
Issued: 30-NOV-1998 | To: FAA | A-98-98 |
Require all manufacturers of transport-category airplanes to incorporate logic into all new and existing transport-category airplanes that have autopilots installed to provide a cockpit aural warning to alert pilots when the airplane\'s bank and/or pitch exceeds the autopilot\'s maximum bank and/or pitch command limits. (Closed - Unacceptable Action) |
Issued: 30-NOV-1998 | To: FAA | A-98-99 |
Expedite the research, development, and implementation of revision to the icing certification testing regulations to ensure that airplanes are adequately tested for the conditions in which they are certificated to operate; the research should include identification (and incorporation into icing certification requirements) of realistic ice shapes and their effects and criticality. (Closed - Reconsidered) |