Steve Scott

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  • The Ice Regulators Cometh

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    The NTSB Examines The Other Side of Ice The NTSB has again addressed the other side of icing — airborne accumulation. In last week’s Air Safety Week (Feb. 26 issue) […]

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  • At The Leading Edge Of Aviation

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    The Need To Be Tactically Tactile The expression "show ’em a clean set of heels" is often used by runners, when seeking to leave the competition behind. In aviation, without […]

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  • Stowed Away Hazards

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    Stowaways Are Human Tragedies That Also Raise Troubling Security Issues Sadly, it’s a recurring theme: a human body is found within (or plummets from) the wheel well of a long-haul […]

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  • Make Mine A BLT

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    The Strengths And Weaknesses Of The Boeing Laptop Tool BLT stands for a bacon, lettuce and tomato sandwich, but for the average airline crew it’s also a Boeing Laptop Tool. […]

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  • The Yellow Logic Of Chicken Little

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    Incidents Are Often More Complex Than Press Or Officialdom Can Fathom When it comes to aviation, the average journalistic hack or government layman has little hope of arriving at a […]

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  • Behind Closed Doors

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    How Cockpit Inaccessibility Adversely Affects Air Safety Locked and hardened cockpit doors are an increasingly prevalent security initiative, but evidence is mounting that they entail a safety downside. As is […]

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  • PAPI’s FAROS

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    An Illegitimate Son Of DREADLE? After years of carping irritation from the NTSB, the FAA has decided to proof-test a system that will alert a pilot directly if there’s an […]

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  • Legging It

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    The FAA’s Last Word On Extended Range Safety Issues The FAA published on Jan. 8 the final rule on Extended Operations of Multi-Engined Turbine Powered Airplanes (ETOPS), effective Feb. 15. […]

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  • Alarmed But Never Alerted

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    The FAA’s MSAW Again Fails Its Primary Raison d’etre On August 4, 2005, at approximately 0206L, Flight N454MA an MU-2B-60 turbo-prop twin, was destroyed on impact with terrain near Parker, […]

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  • With "Baited" Breaths

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    Airport Security Checkpoints Also Stop Drunken Pilots A 51-year-old Australian pilot flying for Emirates was jailed last week for four months by a British court. His crime? He turned up […]

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