Tue, Mar 30, 2010
Suggestions include Changes In Airman Testing On
EFD's
The NTSB Monday released a recommendation to the FAA that it
revise airman knowledge tests to include questions regarding
electronic flight and navigation displays, including normal
operations, limitations, and the interpretation of malfunctions and
aircraft attitudes.
The board said the FAA should require all manufacturers of
certified electronic primary flight displays to include information
in their approved aircraft flight manual and pilot's operating
handbook supplements regarding abnormal equipment operation or
malfunction due to subsystem and input malfunctions, including but
not limited to pitot and/or static system blockages, magnetic
sensor malfunctions, and attitude-heading reference system
alignment failures, and incorporate training elements regarding
electronic primary flight displays into your training materials and
aeronautical knowledge requirements for all pilots.
The board further recommended that training elements regarding
electronic primary flight displays be incorporated into initial and
recurrent flight proficiency requirements for pilots of 14 Code of
Regulations Part 23 certified aircraft equipped with those systems
that address variations in equipment design and operations of such
displays, and that guidance should be developed and published for
the use of equipment-specific electronic avionics display
simulators and procedural trainers that do not meet the definition
of flight simulation training devices prescribed in 14 Code of
Federal Regulations Part 60 to support equipment-specific pilot
training requirements.
Finally, the board said the FAA should inform aircraft and
avionics maintenance technicians about the critical role of
voluntary service difficulty reporting system reports involving
malfunctions or defects associated with electronic primary flight,
navigation, and control systems in 14 Code of Federal Regulations
Part 23 certified aircraft used in general aviation operations.
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