A manufacturer’s perspective on future aviation safety ......A manufacturer’s perspective on future aviation safety research Episode II– OPTICS Workshop – Pascal Traverse,

A manufacturer’s perspective on future aviation safety research Episode II

OPTICS workshop – April 2016

Pascal Traverse Airbus

April 2016 A manufacturer’s perspective on future aviation safety research Episode II– OPTICS Workshop – Pascal Traverse, Airbus

© AIRBUS S.A.S. All rights reserved. Confidential and proprietary document.

Agenda

Safety of aviation is continuously improving for multiple reasons; innovation is one of them.

Airbus is selecting safety related innovation projects based on:

- Safety data

- Airlines data

These data are by nature Confidential, reducing the capability for cooperative research.

However, Airbus is not alone in the world and good ideas may surface elsewhere (universities …). European-funded projects are an opportunity, with limitations.

Note: some of the slides are updated version of OPTICS symposium in Toulouse, 2015.

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Agenda



- Safety data

- Airlines data




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Aviation is safe and improving

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Yearly fatal accident rate per million flights Accidents statistics are coming from “Commercial Aviation Accidents 1958-2015 A Statistical Analysis”, published by Airbus

Aircraft Technology enables safety improvements



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10 year moving average fatal accident rate per million flights

Second generation Third generation Fourth generation



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Technology contribution in addressing Loss Of Control type of accident:

R Fly By Wire a/c / Flight Envelope Protection

(applicable only to 4th generation of a/c)

LOC-I : Loss of control in-flight CFIT : Controlled flight into terrain RE : Runway excursion

10 year moving average LOC-I accident rate per million flights




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Technology contribution in addressing Controlled Flight Into Terrain:

R combination of TAWS, Improved Navigation performance,

Glass Cockpit/FMS equipped A/C

(mainly 3rd and 4th generations of A/C)


10 year moving average CFIT accident rate per million flights




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Emerging technology contribution in addressing Runway Excursion:

R ROPS or equivalent energy/landing performance

based system


10 year moving average CFIT accident rate per million flights



Aircraft Technology enables safety improvements … and more to come!

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RWY condition report

RWY condition report

Ground server

ATC Ground services

AOCs

NAIADS – New Air and Inertia Automatic Data Switching UAMM – Unreliable Airspeed Mitigation Mean Back-up Speed: fusion of AOA, inertia and engine pressure data NAIADS for new A/C (A350); UAMM for derivative A/C

CORSAIR (Contaminated Runway State Automatic Identification and Reporting) Use the A/C as a sensor.

Max(10.000ft,40NM MORA)

EMER

DESCENT

Innovation is enabling aviation safety to improve …

… however, keeping highest training standards is also one the keys


Agenda



- Safety data

- Airlines data




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Safety Data

Continued Airworthiness Process is one of the main source of safety data.

(This process is shared and approved by the Airworthiness Authorities.)

Any incidents during an aircraft’s operation are reported to Airbus as “in-service events”.

“Events” are anything that doesn’t seem “normal”.

Airbus: 300 000 event reports a year.

Any “event” that could impact on an aircraft’s safety is classed as an “occurrence”.

Airbus: more than 2 500 occurrences a year.

Massive amount of data, analysed by Airbus experts.

A good insight on airlines’ real life.

An obvious source of inspiration for Airbus innovation.

Judicial enquiries may be running, personal data may appears: need for confidentiality

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Airlines Data

Airbus Flight Operations Analysis service and the Airbus Yearly Flight Safety Conferences are two sources of airlines data (Field reps, Training by Airbus …).

Flight Operations Analysis - Since 2006, Airbus is a trusted receiver of flight data with enforced confidentiality

> 30 airlines > 2 million flights up to 4000 parameters per flight

Airbus Yearly Flight Safety Conference – Since 1995; more than 130 A/L participating

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• Airline’s benefit

Opportunity to get dedicated and confidential feedback on operations

Analysis of specific risks (ex: Approach stability, Hard Landing…)

Improvement of in house Flight Data Monitoring techniques

• Airbus’s benefit

Better knowledge of real life of our aircraft

• Airline & Airbus’s benefit

Proactive Safety and Ops initiative

Contribution to robustness of future A/C and functions


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- Safety data

- Airlines data




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European funded projects - (personal opinion): four types of project

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Coalition

• Each partner is coming with its own agenda and working on it • Juxtaposition of results (no real integration), loose cooperation • Airbus benefit:

• Discovery of labs, Universities, SME: potential partners in a future project • Increase of Airbus knowledge, mostly from Airbus own activities

• Typical & recent case: ACROSS

Airbus Minor partner

• Airbus is basically advising, reviewing solutions • Some, but limited, increase of Airbus knowledge. • Typical & recent case: Future Sky Safety

Airbus not

participating

• 44 European-funded projects that may have an explicit contribution to safety (OPTICS 2014 report).

• Almost no increase of Airbus knowledge from these projects if Airbus is not participating.

Airbus leads & integrates

• Airbus is proposing a focused question, rather closed • Those willing to answer the question are entering the project • Airbus benefit:

• Answers to Airbus question, a first realistic solution • Partners have learned industrial constraints

• Typical & recent case: CLEAN SKY 2 (call for Core Partner, call for Partner), ADDSAFE & RECONFIGURE …


European funded projects - (personal opinion): key factors for success

• Trust: reasonable guarantee that my data will

• not go to a competitor (although safety may be a good reason to share)

• not be distorted against Airbus

a true partnership

• Knowledge of industrial constraints: embedded system computation capacity, certification process, need for safety evidences etc.

• Well identified, shared and agreed objectives

• Improvements on Airbus (cockpit & Flight Ops) side

• More empathy toward labs, universities, SME: they have their own ambition (publishing, IP, very short time to market …), we cannot ignore it

• A cooperation strategy with entities outside of France and not only with the major system suppliers.

• Improvements on European R&T management

• Faster preparation time or more flexibility in execution

• Leaner reporting

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Concluding Remarks



- Safety data

- Airlines data




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