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Boeing’s Perspective on FCF Risk Mitigation
Captain Gary Meiser Chief Pilot, Production Flight Test Boeing Test and Evaluation
Presentation to the Flight Safety Foundation, Functional Check Flight Symposium, Vancouver, BC 8-9 February, 2011
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Flight Test Risk Mitigation
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Boeing Test & Evaluation Production Flight Test
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Safety Culture Structured
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Policies
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Procedures Select Personnel Clear Expectations
Elements of a Successful Operation
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Safety comes first
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First Operating Principle Foundation for Policies and Processes History of Success Production Flight Test
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Safety Culture
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Learning Organization
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Organizational structure
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Team of airplane model Lead Pilots and Systems Operators
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Drive distribution of information
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Sharing of information and “Lessons Learned”
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Aircrew meetings
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Blogs Risk Management Concepts Safety Program Training Program High Standards
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Operational Flight Test Excellence
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Motivated, capable, and experienced flight crews
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Safety Culture
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Integrity
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Open and Honest communication
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Management support for flight crew decisions Cooperation and Collaboration
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Manufacturing
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Engineering Flight Test Customer Industry Production Flight Test
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Maintenance Processes
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Maintenance
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Partnership is critical
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Airplane Maintenance Crew as important as Flight Crew Approved procedures Detailed documentation of work performed Engineering Analysis and Assistance Communication
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Airplane Configuration
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Flight Crew Notification Form Open and Honest dialogue
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Operating Procedures
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Flight Test Aircrew Guide
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Flight Operations Policies
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Weather minimums Daylight requirements Flight Crew Duty Limits Production Flight Test Procedures Production Flight Test Crew
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Pilots
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Production Captain
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Production First Officer
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Systems Operator Flight Analyst Four person flight crew improve:
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Combined Technical Knowledge
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Situational Awareness
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Error Management Safety
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Production Flight Test
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Risk Management
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Minimum Flight Crew Minimize Unnecessary Flight Testing
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Eliminate testing for testing sake
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Normal flight profile
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start, taxi, takeoff, climb, cruise, descent, approach and landing
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appropriate for most functional check flight scenarios Do Not Deviate from Established Procedures
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Communication Processes
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Flight Test Airplane Release Accurate discrepancy documentation Flight Crew brief and debrief Post-flight face-to-face debrief
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Flight Test Aircrew
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Experience
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Technical Education
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Aviation Flight Test Flight Test Training
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Academic
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Simulator Proficiency paced Flight Test Training syllabus Crew Resource / Threat and Error Management Flight Crew Currency requirements
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Airplane Currency
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Test Proficiency Production Flight Test
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Test Expectations
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Test Planning
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“What”?
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Objective
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Airplane Configuration “Why” – flight test?
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Necessary
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Required “How” – test procedures?
Test Results
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Pass/fail criteria
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“Knock-it-off” limits Troubleshooting
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Use extreme caution and understand possible consequences
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Plan the Flight – Fly the Plan
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Boeing Flight Test Risk Mitigation
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Qualified Flight Crews Organization focused on safety and quality Established guidelines and procedures Resulting in safe and successful operations
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Boeing has created “Generic” Flight Test Profiles accessible to operators through their “myboeingfleet” accounts .
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Current profiles to be posted on myboeingfleet:
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737NG
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757 767 777 Profiles in development (will be posted soon):
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737-300/400/500
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747-400
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No additional profiles planned at this time
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