NTSB Issues 7 Safety Recs for MD-11 Airplanes
 

April 2, 2014

The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) issues the following recommendations to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA):

Work with Boeing to (1) assess the effectiveness of flare cueing systems to assist MD-11 pilots in making timely and appropriate inputs during the landing flare, (2) provide a formal report on the findings of the assessment, and (3) if the assessment shows that flare cueing systems could be useful to MD-11 pilots, provide copies of the report to all US operators of MD-11 airplanes and encourage them to install such a system on these airplanes. (A-14-004)

Work with Boeing to (1) assess methods for providing weight-on-wheels cueing to MD-11 pilots to enhance pilot awareness of bounced landings and facilitate proper pilot reaction and effective control inputs when bounced landings occur, (2) provide a formal report on the findings of the assessment, and (3) if the assessment shows that the weight-on-wheels cueing methods could be useful to MD-11 pilots, provide copies of the report to all US operators of MD-11 airplanes and encourage them to provide a means for weight-on-wheels cueing for these airplanes. (A-14-005)

Work with Boeing to (1) evaluate the effect of brief power increases on simulated MD-11 landing distances, (2) adjust the values in published MD-11 landing distance tables accordingly, and (3) provide the adjusted values to MD-11 operators. (A-14-006)

Reconvene the MD-10/MD-11 flight standardization board to determine whether currency requirements should be strengthened for MD-11 pilots. (A-14-007)

http://www.ntsb.gov/doclib/recletter...14-004-007.pdf

The NTSB issues the following recommendations to the Boeing Company:

In collaboration with the Federal Aviation Administration, (1) assess the effectiveness of flare cueing systems to assist MD-11 pilots in making timely and appropriate inputs during the landing flare, (2) provide a formal report on the findings of the assessment, and (3) if the assessment shows that flare cueing systems could be useful to MD-11 pilots, provide copies of the report to all US operators of MD-11 airplanes and encourage them to install such a system on these airplanes. (A-14-008)

In collaboration with the Federal Aviation Administration,(1) assess methods for providing weight-on-wheels cueing to MD-11 pilots to enhance pilot awareness of bounced landings and facilitate proper pilot reaction and effective control inputs when bounced landings occur, (2) provide a formal report on the findings of the assessment, and (3) if the assessment shows that the weight-on-wheels cueing methods could be useful to MD-11 pilots, provide copies of the report to all US operators of MD-11 airplanes and encourage them to provide a means for weight-on-wheels cueing on these airplanes. (A-14-009)

In collaboration with the Federal Aviation Administration,(1)evaluate the effect of brief power increases on simulated MD-11 landing distances, (2) adjust the values in published MD-11 landing distance tables accordingly, and (3) provide the adjusted values to MD-11 operators. (A-14-010)

http://www.ntsb.gov/doclib/recletter...14-008-010.pdf