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AIRBUS HELICOPTERS RESTRICTED
Safety Partnership Together Achieving Safety Excellence
Andrew Dettl – Customer Support Director, Aberdeen Fleet Centre
andrew.dettl@eurocopter.co.uk
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AH In-Service Fleet (~12k aircraft)
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ECUREUIL SINGLE
36,6%
EC135/635
9,7%
EC145/BK117
8,7%
DAUPHIN TWIN
7.5%
ECUREUIL TWIN
5,3%
4,9%
BO105
GAZELLE
4,4 %
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Fleet Distribution
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11,727 Aircraft in-Service (as at end 2014)
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In 152 Countries
3010 Operators
87 million FH accumulated on AH aircraft to date
3.2 million FH accumulated in 2014
10 million FH accumulated on O&G missions to date
5 million FH accumulated on Super Puma fleet to date
240,000 FH accumulated on Super Puma fleet in 2014
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Primary Causes of Accidents
All Aircraft
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AH accidents are due to:
• Operational reasons – very high
• Maintenance reasons - low
• Technical reasons – very low
AH Fatal Offshore accidents:
• Have a much higher relative Maintenance root cause, compared to the entire fleet
This knowledge enables us to target improvements for different missions
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Areas of Focus
We (AH) continually improve our products to reduce Technical accidents.
We recognise that we need to work much more closely with the Operators to reduce the:
• Operational accidents, and
• Maintenance accidents.
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AH Continuing Airworthiness Process
Focus on eliminating weaknesses in design and Technical Accidents
AH EC225 Maturity Programme
Focus on reducing RTB events, Technical Incidents and improving reliability
Safety Partnership
Bringing together AH’s efforts to implement & improve safety practices and standards in close cooperation with operators and industry stakeholders
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Safety Partnership
Offshore Mission Focus
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Flight Operations
Maintenance
Configuration
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Initiative Examples
FCOM
Training Standardisation
Pilot Seminars
Maintenance Mentor
HUMS
Maintenance Seminars
Vision 1000
Rig n’ Fly
Standard Equipment
Cabin Improvements
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Safety Partnership – Flight Operations
Flight Crew Operations Manual
EC225 has the best in class autopilot:
• Automatic flight envelope protections – Altitude and airspeed
– Prevent CFIT (Controlled Flight Into Terrain)
• Automated power, speed and flight path optimisation
– Maximises performance in the unlikely event of engine failure
• Degraded visibility landing capability
• Allows safe, controlled emergency landings in extreme conditions
Flight Crew Operations Manual (FCOM)
• In the past, the OEM issued a Rotorcraft Flight Manual (RFM) and the helicopter operator issued
an Operations Manual.
• Today Airbus Helicopters has issued the 1st version of a OEM Flight Crew Operations Manual for
the EC225 offshore mission.
• The FCOM provides the OEM’s recommendation on what and how different aircraft features
should be deployed during different phases of the mission, to maximise safety.
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Flight Operations
Maintenance
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Safety Partnership – Flight Operations
Training Standardisation
Despite the best in class autopilot, some of the safety features are not used because they are not
known to the aircrew.
The OEM and the helicopter operators manage their own Approved Training Organisations (ATOs)
to provide initial and recurrent training to aircrew and, over time, the focus and content of the
different ATO’s courses diverge as a result of different in-service experience.
Training Standardisation
• The Training Standardisation initiative aims to minimise operational accidents by ensuring
that all ATOs cover the OEM’s recommended minimum training so that all aircrew know
how and when to employ all (safety) features of the aircraft.
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Safety Partnership – Maintenance
Maintenance Mentor
Maintenance Mentor
The AH Maintenance Mentor is located in the helicopter operators’ maintenance facilities to:
• Observe maintenance activities
• Provide advice and guidance
• Interpret and explain existing AH maintenance documentation and instructions
• Act as a conduit through which technical queries can be raised
• Suggest potential improvements in terms of efficiency or effectiveness
• Facilitate the sharing of best practice amongst the helicopter operators
Thereby minimising the risk of error
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Errors maintaining avionic systems are typically
detectable by the machine
Errors maintaining dynamic systems and flight
controls are more difficult to detect and are more
likely to result in an accident.
Flight Operations
Maintenance
Configuration
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Safety Partnership – Configuration
Vision 1000
Vision 1000
AH has decided to install, from mid 2015, the Vision
1000 system in all its new aircraft:
• cockpit mounted,
• ruggedised,
• inertial and positioning data, ambient acoustic
data and cockpit imagery
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Cockpit Voice and Flight Data Recorders (CVFDR) are fitted to all heavy helicopter types.
The FDR is used for:
•Flight Data Monitoring (FDM) to identify behavioural trends and improve training
•Investigate accidents
Light helicopters typically do not have these safety features
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Flight Operations
Maintenance
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Safety Partnership – Configuration
Rig ‘n Fly
Rig n’ Fly
AH has developed the Rig n’ Fly system which provides:
• An automatic, all weather, Instrument Landing System
(ILS) type procedure to within ½ a nautical mile of the
installation in any weather.
• Automated altitude, airspeed and direction adjustments.
• Hands-off approach until the final landing phase.
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Navigation and approach to an offshore installation is one of the most demanding aspects of
a crew change mission:
•Low level of offshore navigation aids
•High level of pilot workload
•Potential for loss of situational awareness
Flight Operations
Maintenance
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Conclusion
Despite the continually increasing:
• Fleet size
• Flying hours / utilisation
• Complexity of missions
The AH accident rate is ever improving
More improvement is always necessary until all accidents are eliminated.
As the vast majority of accidents do not have a technical cause (i.e. are not due to the machine),
AH’s focus is now on helping the operators improve operations and maintenance.
The Safety Partnership is an important initiative with that objective.
Together Achieving Safety Excellence
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