Dette høres rart ut. Aircraft betyr både aeroplanes and helicopters. ALPA har aldri brydd seg om helikoptre hvor det flys kommersielt med kun en flyger. Mener man at det er farlig å fly med en flyger, bør ICAO ta fatt i dette. Helikopterflygerne har ikke adgang til ALPA. Den internasjonale flygerorganisasjonene IFALPA, som nå har norsk president, mener at all kommersiell flyging med aircraft må ha to sertifiserte flygere. Under vises det til flere ulykker hvor flygerne har vært en viktig faktor for å berge liv. For at regnskapet skal bli korrekt må en også ta med tilfeller hvor flygere har tatt liv, som i eksempelvis Air Nuigini ulykken du kan lese om over dette innlegget.(Red.)
ALPA
warns of potential trend to single-pilot commercial aircraft
The Air Line Pilots Association is fighting to ensure large commercial aircraft
do not evolve to have only one pilot.
The union released a report on 17 July stressing what it describes as the
criticality of maintaining two pilots in the cockpit of transport aircraft - a
standard it says is under attack.
"Pilots on board an aircraft can see, feel, smell and hear many
indications of an impending problem and begin to formulate a course of action
before even the most sophisticated sensors and indicators provide positive
indications of trouble," says the union in a statement.
"Studies collectively indicate that despite the dramatic technological
advances since the rules were established, a cockpit crew of at least two
pilots remains necessary to maintain the current high level of safety and
flight deck security," says the union's report, titled The Dangers of
Single-Pilot Operations.
A single-pilot cockpit means " increased workload for the remaining pilot,
the elimination of a critical layer of monitoring and operating redundancy in
the cockpit and the inability of a single pilot to handle many emergency situations,"
it says.
The report cites several aviation incidents in which "a crew of at least
two pilots was necessary to avert disaster". Incidents cited include the
1989 crash of a United Airlines McDonnell Douglas DC-10 at Sioux City, the 2009
water ditching of a US Airways Airbus A320 into the Hudson River and the April
2018 inflight failure of the engine on a Southwest Airlines Boeing 737.
ALPA's report responds to efforts by airlines and the military to cut costs,
and to government research into one-pilot operations of large aircraft, it
says.
Indeed, NASA has studied one-pilot operations and aviation executives have
asked Boeing for such an aircraft.
Those executives include Air Lease executive chairman Steven Udvar-Hazy, who
told FlightGlobal last month he wants Boeing to consider a single-pilot version
of its conceptual New Mid-market Airplane.
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