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     Newsletter No. 26 - October 2014
   Events
Coming soon
  From October   Flight Ops Engineering & Documentation regional seminars
   to December   Four Airbus Flight Ops Engineering & Documentation regional seminars will be held
                 before the end of this year:
                 From 7 to 9 October in Miami (USA)
                 From 28 to 30 October in Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia)
                 From 18 to 20 November in Istanbul (Turkey)
                 From 2 to 4 December in Gatwick (UK)
                 For more information, please refer to the Flight Ops community on AirbusWorld.
           The new
           SO SB+
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            Extracting specific SB+ data for your fleet
     Handling facilitation
     • 	Ready to use and recurrently updated according to your contract
     • 	Compliant with standard office automation tools (e.g. MS-Excel ©)
     • 	Standard/advanced native filtering functions
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* ETOPS: Extended-Range Twin-Engine Operations ** LROPS: Long Range Operations
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     Iridium SatCom
     for the A320 Family
     now in service
     Offering a complete worldwide coverage
     for the A320 Family
The fact that the Iridium SatCom constellation orbits closer to the Earth than the Inmarsat equivalent has
some advantages. The system requires less power, which in turn enables a lower cost and lower weight
solution. Iridium SatCom also enables a complete worldwide coverage including the polar regions.
         Chime               Push-to-talk
                                                                                                                           A320 cockpit
IRIDIUM INMARSAT
	         Weight	
                                     7 Kg	                         45 Kg
	
	
     (including wiring)
Thanks to its affordability, the Iridium SatCom solution has attracted significant
interest and is already flying successfully with a number of customers including
some which have been retrofitted via Airbus Upgrade Services.
DSG ESG
     Extended
     Service Goal
     for Airbus aircraft
     Flying beyond the Design Service Goal for additional revenue
     An aircraft is designed with an objective in terms of operational life. This is defined at the point of aircraft design and is known
     as the Design Service Goal (DSG) which refers to a maximum number of Flight Cycles (FC) or Flight Hours (FH), whichever
     comes first, without reference to aircraft age. In general, the Design Service Goal is aligned with a 20 year utilization at average
     FC and FH per aircraft model. Of course, dependent on the aircraft operating scenario, either limitation could be faced first.
     When an aircraft is approaching the DSG limitation, the owner has a choice.
     They may choose to withdraw the aircraft from service or they may wish to invest               In a nutshell, the full ESG
     in the Extended Service Goal (ESG) programme to enable aircraft operations to                  may be achieved by:
     continue up to 10, or even more, additional years.
                                                                                                    1) 	A top cover Service Bulletin
     The ESG programmes active in Airbus today include the A300/A310, A320, A330                     	 (SB) which is issued once a
     and 340 families and are the result of documented actions and analysis. This leads             	 full concession review is
     to specific requirements dependent not only on the aircraft type but also on its con-          	 completed and the Repair
     figuration.                                                                                    	 Design Approval Sheet
     Once the needs for individual aircraft are identified and the required actions taken,          	 (RDAS) review performed.
     flight operations can continue past the original DSG objectives in line with the               2) 	Systems related SBs and
     airworthiness authority certified maintenance programme.                                       	 kits embodied where
     Driven by demand, the most active programme today is on the A320 Family where                  	 required. A small number
     around 80 aircraft are involved. This figure will of course increase greatly over coming       	 of systems components
                                                                                                    	 may need to be replaced
     months and years in proportion with the early aircraft deliveries.
                                                                                                    	 or upgraded, as well.
     The ESG will enable customers to earn additional revenue by flying their aircraft
     longer, as well as benefiting from the increased residual value of their Airbus fleets.        3) 	Structural related SBs
     In addition, operators will have the opportunity to upgrade their fleet to keep                	 and kits embodied where
                                                                                                    	required.
     in-service aircraft at the highest level of efficiency. We encourage customers with
     older aircraft to consider their fleet planning at an early stage in order to achieve
     the Extended Service Goal in the most cost efficient manner.
                                                                                                       John GRANT
                                                                                                       John.Grant@airbus.com
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     A350 XWB
     flight training
     Following approval of A350 XWB training programmes
     and the successful qualification of its flight simulator;
     customer training soon to begin
     While the A350 XWB is conducting the final certification tests, a significant milestone
     has been achieved with the qualification of the programmes’ Full Flight Simulator
     (FFS) as well as its Flight Training Device (FTD). These were
     specifically designed to support and demonstrate the A350 Transition course
     and the A330-A350 Common Type Rating (CTR), and they represent a major step
     towards the A350 XWB’s Entry-Into-Service at the end of this year.
     The European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) and the Federal Aviation Administration
     (FAA) carried out FFS and FTD evaluations for the A350 XWB from July 28th to
     August 2nd. This process was conducted in parallel by simulation experts and pilot
     inspectors from these authorities.
     A dedicated Airbus team worked closely with the training devices’ manufacturer,
     supporting the evaluations of the aviation authorities for the training devices
     throughout the whole process.
     Following the aircraft’s evolution throughout the flight test campaign until EIS,
     the final aircraft data will gradually be made available, with the FFS and FTD being
     updated accordingly.
     The courses evaluated by EASA and FAA included the A330-A350 XWB differences
     training with the objective of the CTR, the A350 XWB Cross Crew Qualification (CCQ)
     course, as well as the standard transition course dedicated to pilots without Airbus
     “fly-by-wire” experience.
     The evaluation which took place from August 4th to September 15th involved a team
     of four pilots from EASA and FAA acting as evaluators, while 16 pilots representing
     the authorities tested the training.
     A major milestone was completed on 17 September, when EASA and FAA
     confirmed the approval of the A330-A350 XWB Level D differences training, allowing
     recognition under the EASA regulatory scheme for the assignment of a single licence
     endorsement “A330-A350 XWB”, and assignment of a CTR under the FAA rules.
     The Airbus Training department is very satisfied with this achievement and is now
     waiting for the formal approval of the courses by the authorities, in order to start
     the first A350 XWB customer training.
                          Régine VADROT
                 Regine.Vadrot@airbus.com
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     Airbus Required
     Navigation
     Performance
     monitoring tool
     Monitoring of RNP operations as required by the regulations.
     The RNP AR (Required Navigation Performance - Authorization       The RNP monitoring tool is not just doing the required
     Required) operation is a specific type of RNP operation,          monitoring. Two specific modules are included:
     mostly used for approaches. This type of navigation allows
                                                                       RNP 3D-viewer - an optimized aircraft trajectory explorer,
     an aircraft to fly a calculated path between two 3D-defined
                                                                       ensuring quick and easy identification of path deviations.
     points in space (waypoints) and optimizes the airspace
                                                                       This function is dedicated to display flights loaded from
     and trajectories. It therefore contributes to the reduction
                                                                       a report session to follow their tracks around landing and
     of emissions and fuel consumption. For such operations,
                                                                       take-offs, according to the environment data.
     airlines are required to implement an RNP monitoring
     programme in order to obtain authorization from the authorities   RNP report viewer - facilitating document creation for
     (monitoring reports must be sent regularly).                      mandatory reporting to the aviation authorities.
                                                                       This function is dedicated to reporting and displaying statistic
     Developed by Airbus, the new RNP monitoring tool offers
                                                                       reports on RNP approaches. Flights can be selected to be
     new functions for RNP AR monitoring and reporting, thanks
                                                                       replayed in the RNP 3D-viewer module.
     to a specific event reporting system and an aircraft
     trajectory viewer.                                                Such features guide the user through the knowledge required
                                                                       for RNP AR monitoring in an efficient way.
     Directly plugged to a compliant Flight Data Analysis (FDA)
     software (AirFASE), the RNP monitoring tool takes advantage       This innovative functionality will help our customers monitor
     of an event-based design and processing system to manage          RNP AR paths faster, more precisely and with lower resources.
     specific tasks such as:
     •	 Statistic computation and reporting: total of RNP AR
     	 procedures conducted, with a number of satisfactory
     	 and non-satisfactory ones (root causes are identified).
     •	 Present RNP AR flights and events in a convenient format                                Anthony GONTIER
     	 for flight analysis, with 3D terrain and procedure waypoints                             Anthony.Gontier@airbus.com
      	 to better assess risks.
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RNP 3D-viewer
                                        L1.00
          Max. Lateral Deviation (Nm)
0.00
                                        R1.00
                                            Initial    Inter-     Final                  Total: 14 procedures
                                          Approach    mediate   Approach
                                              Fix        Fix       Fix
                                                                                         Satisfactory: 13
                                             (IAF)       (IF)     (FAF)                  Unsatisfactory: 1
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     Key Account
     Managers                                                                                       “We will take
     A new team dedicated to serving your training
                                                                                                    the lead and
     needs regionally                                                                               proactively seek
     Making the change from Fulfil Customer Order (FCO) to Key Account Manager (KAM)
     is a concrete example of the change of strategy within Airbus Training. With this new
                                                                                                    out ways to
     approach, “Training by Airbus” was developed to help deliver objectives to better
     serve the airlines:                                                                            provide our
     •	 By having a presence close to our customers worldwide,
     •	 By providing innovative and top-quality solutions,
                                                                                                    customer with
     •	 By providing a broad range of reduced cost-effective training services
     	 for our customers.
                                                                                                    the training they
     A commercial team has been created to fulfil the customers’ needs and acts as
     the focal point of contact for our customers, to help the airlines put it into practice.
                                                                                                    need”.
     Now, each customer has one KAM – this way, the KAM can develop an in-depth
     relationship with each customer, analyse their business needs, their goals and their
     strategy. Over time, this close collaboration will contribute to the development of
     strong and effective business relationships with our customers, providing them                 Eleonora ASCOLESE
     with training services that match their needs and expectations.                                Eleonora.Ascolese@airbus.com
The main objectives are to improve access to information while adapting to customers’
expectations, Airbus fleet evolution (e.g. growth) and latest IT technologies (e.g. mobility).
Here are the topics:
• 	New WISE (World In-Service Experience) application simplifies the way Airbus
	publishes information on in-service experience
• 	ISDS project has delivered a simple and efficient application for reporting
	 in-service data
     The new WISE was opened to all customers and suppliers          Available 24/7 through AirbusWorld, TechRequest offers an
     on 28 July 2014, improving document content and access.         end-to-end solution allowing the submission, follow-up and
                                                                     closure of technical queries. It is tailored to handle urgent as
     •	 You can now easily and rapidly find in-service information   well as routine queries through an intuitive and efficient
     	 in only two types of documents: The new Technical             interface, supported by real-time shared information.
     	 Follow-Up and In-Service Information (ISI) articles.          The second deployment phase will continue in 2015 with
     •	 Former documents (previous TFU model, Service                Flight Operations and Tech Data domains amongst others.
      	 Information Letters (SIL), Modification Operational Impact   The initial feedback received from early adopters is very
      	 (MOI), prior WISE articles, etc.) have been reformatted      encouraging, highlighting a “hands-on tool greatly simplifying
     	 to gather all required information on one specific subject    daily exchanges with Airbus Customer Services”.
      	 into one single TFU or ISI document.
AIRBUSWORLD
At the end of August, 40 operators were using DLI to report     The possibility to predefine a user context (by airline, aircraft
in-service data (aircraft and component reliability, logbooks   type, MSN, ATA chapter, etc.) will automatically optimize the
and scheduled maintenance findings).                            display of the related data.
The upcoming release planned during Q4 this year will:          This new AirbusWorld portal will be opened to all customers in
                                                                Q2 2015.
• 	Extend the scope to additional reports
	 (post flight reports, Service Bulletin reports,
	 electronic warranty claims and suppliers’
	 shop findings)
            Training by Airbus
            Reaching new horizons together