Aviation Update — October 2017

P&WC AND AIR NEW ZEALAND SIGN CUSTOMIZED ENGINE

SUPPORT AGREEMENT FOR 50 + AIRCRAFT

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ratt & Whitney Canada (P&WC) has signed an agreement with Air New Zealand to deliver an engine service and support

programme covering more than 50 PW123M-powered Bombardier Q300 aircraft in the airline’s Air Nelson fleet and PW127M-

powered ATR72-500/600 aircraft in the airline’s Mount Cook fleet. The agreement also includes installation of P&WC’s FAST solution

for advanced prognostics and engine health management on aircraft. P&WC has introduced a new enhancement to FAST that

automates propeller vibration trend monitoring. The new capabilities put propeller balancing maintenance in ‘on-condition’ mode

for a predictive and optimised environment designed to reduce operating costs and pilot and mechanic workload.

AirAsia Goes Digital for

Safety Management

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ow-cost carrier AirAsia has chosen Ideagen’s cloud-

based Coruson software for safety and risk management.

The governance, risk management and compliance (GRC)

software—formerly known as Gael Enlighten before a name

change in February—is used by companies such as British

Airways and Haeco Group for a variety of functions, such as

incident reporting and investigation, safety reporting and

response, regulatory compliance and quality management.

Coruson, which can be configured to a customer’s unique

requirements, will be used by AirAsia’s auditors, risk owners

and safety investigators. It also will be accessible to the

airline’s pilots, cabin crew and engineers for functions like

safety event and hazard reporting. With Coruson, crew and

ground operations can use smart forms to report incidents

in the field, which will later be investigated and analyzed for

the root cause. The software’s risk assessment, modelling

and process automation functionality can then be used to

prevent recurrence.

According to Captain Ling Liong Tien, AirAsia group

head of safety, Coruson will standardize the airline’s safety

reporting and quality auditing. “The software will provide

us with a modern interface, quick access to all safety data

via one system and give us an immediate synopsis of

business performance,” he says. “In line with AirAsia’s vision

to be a digital airline, safety performance can be measured

accurately using a wealth of data.”

He added that the software will be a foundation for

AirAsia’s future growth plans. According to the airline,

Coruson is fully scalable, so users can be added as necessary

and a wider spectrum of data can be captured as AirAsia

grows. The software rollout is scheduled to be completed

by Q1 2018 and Ideagen says it will take a “train the trainer”

approach so that AirAsia can have full ownership of the

software’s administration after initial configuration takes

place.

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