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NEWS & NOTES PAGE 9

News &

IFALPA Aircraft
Notes Operation
Design and

(ADO)
Committee
Meeting in
Toulouse,
IFALPA MEETINGS & EVENTS France 19-21
June.

European Pilot
Peer Support
Initiative
Workshop
in Frankfurt,
Chaired by SFO Nikolaus Braun Environmental Issues and Take-Off nical Officer, attended the European Germany
(VC), the 2018 ADO Committee meet- Performance, whilst “Reduced Crew Pilot Peer Support Initiative Workshop 20-21 June.
ing took place at ATR’s Headquarters Operations” was added to the list of in Frankfurt, Germany, 20-21 June
in Toulouse from 19-21 June. This was Hot Topics. 2018. The workshop focused on Air-
the first ever IFALPA event hosted by Four new Position Papers and crew Peer Support programs and their
ATR, and the Federation is extremely one new Briefing Leaflet were finalized implementation. The keynotes were
grateful to Mr. Christopher McGregor, on Take-Off Performance Monitoring delivered by experts representing pi-
Flight Safety Officer and Head of Flight Systems, Tailwind Operations, Cold lot associations, airlines, regulators,
Safety, and Captain Jérôme Pfeiffer, Weather Altimetry, Electronic Flight peer support providers and mental
Flight Safety Director, for inviting the Bags, and Non-Normal Operations. health organizations.
ADO Committee, sponsoring all the The Committee also gave operational The Wildlife Hazard Mitigation
lunches and dinners during these 3 input on the Briefing Leaflet prepared Expert Group (WHMEG) met for the
days, and organizing an exclusive tour by ATS Committee on Drone Sighting. third time in the IATA Montreal of-
of the Final Assembly Line (FAL). Finally the Committee enter- fices, the group continued to develop
These efforts were rewarded tained presentations from Honeywell content for the new edition of the Air-
with a very good attendance of 39 on Enhanced Vision Systems (EVS) and port Services Manual, Wildlife Hazard
delegates representing 16 Member Combined Vision Systems (CVS), and Management (Doc 9137 Part 3). The ICAO Wildlife
Associations as well as Airbus, ATR, from Airbus on the BLADE concept, new document is expected to pro- Hazard
Embraer, Honeywell, and the Associa- the A321neo ACF and the A330neo vide a better understanding of wildlife Mitigation
tion of Star Alliance Pilots (ASAP). flight test programme. hazard management for management
The 2019 ADO meeting will and wildlife hazard control personnel. Expert Group
With such a large audience take place in Bangkok from 5-7 June, A new chapter on training was devel- in Montreal,
and a packed agenda, the allocated at the kind invitation of the Deputy oped which included training for both Canada 5-8
three days were extremely busy. The President and THAIPA. management and dedicated wildlife June.
discussions focused mainly on RPAS, Gordon Margison, IFALPA Tech- control personnel.