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little more than a year ago I sat with IATA CEO Alexandre de Juniac in his office overlooking Geneva Airport and challenged him as to what he was doing about the poor quality of the regulation of the aviation industry in Africa. He seemed surprised by the question, as up until then, industry regulation had not been a key issue for IATA. I am pleased to see that this acceptance of the regulation standards in Africa by IATA is now changing. Addressing the annual African Airlines Convention in Mauritius, IATA’s Raphael Kuuchi called for greater cooperation between regulators and the African airline industry. There are increasing signs that the cacophony of complaints from the airlines and general aviation about the destructive consequences of poor regulation are increasingly coming to the fore of IATA’s engagement with African aviation.

As the representative of almost all the world’s airlines, IATA represents a huge and important constituency. Kuuchi reports that aviation supports $55.8 billion of economic activity and 6.2 million jobs in Africa.

Without airline service a country’s economy will simply wither and collapse.

Yet aviation in Africa is being strangled by poor regulatory oversight. In South Africa we watch with horror the grotesque cost in jobs and air connectivity of the battle between the SACAA and regional airline CemAir. It is significant that both IATA’s and the United Nations’ safety standards were being met by the CemAir, yet it was unable to satisfy the demands of the SACAA. It is therefore not surprising that relations between the SACAA and the aviation

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industry are at their worst ever. It has become so bad that the industry is resorting to suing the CAA’s inspectors and managers in their personal capacities. This is virtually unprecedented for a normally functioning industry. Valuable companies are choosing to operate under other countries’ AOCs. Many others just give up and quietly go into other more amenable industries – with less obstructive bureaucracy.

Another example of how the SACAA is destroying its industry is that of professional drone operators. Over a year ago I found that it was taking 18 months or longer to get a remote operators’ certificate (ROC).

Despite promises from the SACAA, this situation has not improved. A drone operator pioneering their use for specialist crop spraying had to wait almost two years to get a ROC. The consequence is that almost all drone operators in South Africa are operating illegally. Yet Rwanda manages to constructively engage with drone operators – and has in consequence been the fertile ground for world leading innovations such as Zipline’s drone-based medicine delivery service.

It is time for a radical overhaul at the SACAA. The rot starts from the top. In her failure to engender a culture of constructive engagement with the aviation industry Ms Poppy Khoza has overstayed her tenure and fails to justify her large salary and bonuses.

She should be quietly ‘promoted’ to some position at ICAO. And, in keeping with the new South African ethos, incompetent or corrupt officials should be fired and left to face personal damages claims.

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Mike Gough

Demands, Dreams and a lack of Dollars It appears that aircraft manufacturers, and airport infrastructure investors, are acutely aware of the next threat to their financial bottom lines. Once again, the only scientifically uncontrollable element is placed front and centre of the airline industry: human performance in the flight deck.

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S an industry attempting to break free of the traditional shackles of past training practices, we are not doing that well in stepping up to the plate with respect to the future (and present) demands of the commercial aviation environment.

We are our own worst enemies in some respects, and also victims of the global airline success story.

As someone with about 15 years of useful contribution to the pilot training community left, I undeniably qualify as a ‘dinosaur’ in terms of my aeronautical upbringing and outlook on the flight training environment.

I am, however, attempting to repent, and accept the absolution of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, and the completely different scenario we find ourselves facing today.

The lumbering Jurassic age thinking that near-death experiences in single engine aircraft are essential to the development of fortitude for the awarding of a Commercial Pilot Licence (CPL) is so frustratingly out of place, yet unfortunately so far from being extinct. The same certification process is in place now as it was in 1935 –in most parts of the world, including South Africa.

In around 85 years, our biggest evolution in ab initio training has been mastering the wireless, watching ADF (Automatic Direction Finding – so post-modern..!) being replaced by VOR and the absolute black magic of GPS. In some cases, semi-

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Ryanair is happy to promote young pilots to Captain - in some cases at just 26 years old.

monocoque construction has given way to composites, although pilot eyeware has remained 1950’s static. That’s pretty much it, in terms of noticeable changes to the visual picture of the training industry.

The syllabus has endured, which is a big part of our looming problem. In 1935, one needed 200 hours for the CPL, of which 100 had to be Pilot In Command (PIC), ten of which at night. The latter requirement has been reduced to five, and that’s how we go about training wannabe airline pilots today.

No wonder the role players are concerned.

Canadian Aviation Electronics, or CAE as we know them in the airline simulation arena, are rapidly closing in on Flight

Safety as the world’s largest pilot training organisation. I would venture to say it will not be a fight for market share, as there is more than enough room in this space for other players.

CAE has commented that the industry as a whole is potentially capable of meeting the demand for airline-quality training, but the bottleneck lies in attracting suitably competent and capable individuals. Those that meet this criteria have the massive slap-down of cost of entry into the training environment.

Ryanair, love ’em or not, see themselves as a stepping-stone for pilot development.

They want to take the newbies, with fresh Boeing 738 type rating in hand, see them

move from right seat to left in a few years, and ultimately move on before the salary bill becomes too much akin to the legacy carriers.

With this relatively high crew turnover, comes associated crew hiring problems. A statistic released by Ryanair crystallises the concerns currently within the professional training environment. Of those individuals with a CPL or even ATP, and with a freshly minted type rating, only 35% of applicants make it through the interview and screening process. I must emphasise that this is after the ‘filter’ of affordability and ‘competency’ through ploughing through our antiquated hour-based system.

Clearly the competency requirements have evolved, and the system has not.

Thus, we move on to Competency Based Training, as opposed to ticking those hourbased boxes until a licence (as opposed to competence) is achieved. The concept of Evidence Based Training has been well documented since 2006 to address exactly this.

Any training program, aviation or otherwise, has its success – or lack thereof, firmly rooted in the quality, suitability and aptitude of the individual concerned. It is impossible to polish the un-polishable, to completely mangle that metaphor.

CAE has crunched some basic numbers for a ten-year prediction of pilot demand. We have all heard the massive 20-year numbers put out by the Big Two – in the region of 600 to 700 thousand pilots to be trained – although the numbers from CAE place a little more perspective on how impossible a task that is.

Right now, in 2019, we have a surprisingly small pool (puddle?) of pilots that keep the world’s commercial aeronautical wheels turning.

A grand total of 305 000 active airline pilots populate this planet, with around 55 000 more in the business jet arena. Of the 300-thousand odd pilots, around half operate in the US, with the balance globally.

According to CAE, around 20,000 pilots migrate from corporate to airline, annually.

Thus, at present, we have approximately 360 000 actively employed airline and corporate pilots. That is not a huge number, considering global population numbers.

Come 2028, we will need 150,000 to replace

the dinosaurs, and another 170,000 for that all-important, angst-inducing growth. This brings the active figure up to 530,000 in ten years from 360,000 presently.

As these are CAE’s figures, one would assume they are reasonably independent of the Big Two’s numbers. Obviously, CAE has a dog in this fight in terms of vested interests, as their growth predictions as a primary training provider will affect their market share and in turn, their share price.

This brings us to that all important aspect: money, or the lack thereof. Both for pilot training and, more specifically, the massive amounts of loot sunk into airport infrastructure and even bigger amounts into aircraft financing.

infrastructure, aircraft, skilled personnel and the correct regulatory environment.

The infrastructure is more or less in place, and where lacking or constrained, will find gleeful investment from many players, most notably the Chinese in Africa.

The aircraft manufacturers are flat-out producing airframes for their bulging order books.

So, the biggest speed bump in this particular road is personnel – specifically us, the long-suffering airline pilot. Oh, and CAA, of course.

At this particular conference, it was identified that for any of the dedicated professional pilot training programs to efficiently succeed (emphasis on

near-death experiences in single engine aircraft are essential to the development of fortitude for the awarding of a Commercial Pilot Licence (CPL).

The Europe-based Air Training Policy Group (ATPG) says the ability to find suitable finance is ‘the largest discriminator in pilot career choice’ and points out that this factor limits the pool of talent from which the industry can recruit.

The Airports Council International (ACI) and the World Bank had a conference last month, to which CAE was invited to present its version of the pilot training squeeze that would potentially limit the amount of cash that could be invested in the entire industry in general. For the aviation industry investors as a whole to prepare to fleece those massive future numbers of passengers, the operation must have the requisite aspects in place. Namely

‘efficiently’), one cannot allocate precious resources (skilled EBT instructors and expensive simulators) to problem candidates.

Correct selection is King.

The various MPL (Multi-crew Pilot Licence) programmes currently in place in Europe and the UK have produced some interesting data. Of the properly screened, assessed and trained candidates, 90% are currently in employment with airlines of all sizes. That’s a huge improvement over the numbers released by Ryanair.

This makes the funding model that much easier for Big Finance to get their heads around.

Traditional modular CPL courses (as is the norm in most places around the world)

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have a massive failure / lack of completion / unemployability rate, meaning that that banks are less than enthusiastic to get involved if the chances of repayment are that shaky.

CAE’s presentation to the ACI-World bank conference was warmly received, as it offered a workable model to a complex problem.

As I also have my own canine in this conundrum, I can see two streams of future candidates within the ab-initio training space. Recreational pilots, who have no intention of pursuing any higher licence than a PPL, and those from the outset who are intent on securing one of the two front seats in an airliner.

Those that successfully complete the battery of medical, psychometric, personality profiling and aptitude tests will, in the very near future, have certain banks beat a path to their door to offer wads of cash for their training.

This ability to repay, in a proper MPL environment, will be assured by the future airline employer from day one of the training. The pilot training funders can be guaranteed returns from that investment, and the infrastructure developers and

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aircraft financiers can breathe a collective sigh of relief that the cash cow that is the aviation industry may escape being throttled by that (up to now), utterly unpredictable pilot contingent.

The legislation necessary to enable the MPL does not exist here in South Africa and is a recurring finding during ICAO audits.

There is a lot of homework to be done, but best we do it, and specifically do it without

ABOVE: CAE - the next big force in pilot training.

our habit of re-inventing the wheel to complicate things.

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SCEND Aviation has become one of the largest pre-owned business jet and turbine aircraft sales organisation in Africa, based largely on its organic growth on the back of its core business values – and its ability to source the best aircraft stock.

The company may be small in terms of headcount, but it has shown that it is a David to the Goliath that is the large aircraft sales organisations which are less able to provide the customer relationships that market leading personal service requires.

Ascend Aviation was established

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Bush Pilot

Hugh Pryor

Ryan Navion We had just watched Sean Connery crashing an aircraft in that classic James Bond movie ‘You Only Live Twice’ and the little guy looked up at me and said, “Have you ever flown a ‘Proper Aeroplane’?”

“WELL, that depends what you mean by a ‘Proper Aeroplane.’” I smiled down at the enthusiastic little six-year-old’s face.

“Well, you know, Spitfires, Hurricanes, Mustangs, things like that...Real Aeroplanes.”

“Mmmmmm...Well, I have flown a Spitfire simulator...Not the real thing, you understand, but amazing fun, none the less!”

I scratched my head, “I don’t think they do a Hurricane simulator, do they?”

The little guy shrugged his shoulders, “I don’t really know about that one.” He said, as though the Hurricane was a subject which he would have to sharpen up on. “But what about the Mustang?...err...you probably wouldn’t know much about them...they were American.”

My six-year-old expert obviously had a rather low opinion of my experience in ‘Proper Aeroplanes’, particularly American ones.

“Never mind,” he added, as though I could be forgiven for my lack of familiarity with aircraft from the other side of ‘The Pond’...” I mean they don’t even call them ‘Aeroplanes’ over there, do they?”

Then I suddenly remembered that I had flown an aircraft years ago, which was very nearly a P-51 ‘Mustang’, In fact it actually came off the same production line.

At the end of World War Two, North American Aviation had to cut back on production of the Mustang fighter, partly because the wars with Germany and Japan

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were over, and partly because of the advent of the jet engine.

It just so happened that the Ryan Aeronautical Company was looking to start building aircraft for the post war civilian market which would be sure to ‘burgeon’ with the cessation of hostilities and the number of pilots who had been trained for the War. Their eye naturally fell on the extensive production facilities offered by the North American factory and they duly approached them. North American were only too happy to come to some arrangement with Ryan, rather than scrapping everything which had taken so much effort to put together.

Ryan took the wings and some of the fuselage off the Mustang and put a tricycle undercarriage on it, to make it easier to handle on the ground, instead of the taildragger Mustang. They stuck a 260 horse power flat six engine on the front, instead of the mighty 1600 horse power Rolls Royce Merlin. Then they squeezed three passengers seats in with the pilot and called it a Ryan Navion... but secretly it was really a Mustang underneath.

In fact, I only flew it for a total of about five hours, which was not really long enough to get used to all the knobs and levers, and it was the very first aircraft which I flew, with a retractable undercarriage. My last flight in the Navion was from Nairobi to Mombasa and back.

Retracting the undercarriage was

an exercise all on its own. After leaving the ground, the pilot had to activate the hydraulic system with an enormous lever.

When the hydraulic pressure was in the green, he would select the gear up and wait for the clunk to indicate that the wheels were safely tucked away and locked. Then he would select the flaps up and reduce engine power to twenty-four inches and twentyfour hundred rpm, before de-selecting the hydraulic pump.

After taking off from Mombasa, on the way back to Nairobi, I went through the litany of after-take off checks and set course.

I called Mombasa to give them my estimate for Nairobi and they acknowledged my call and then added “Mike Charlie, are you aware that your right main undercarriage leg is still hanging out?”

I mumbled a rather embarrassed reply and re-selected the hydraulic pump handle to the ‘on’ position until I heard the second ‘clunk’ which I had failed to notice the first time round.

For all I knew, I may have flown all the way down to Mombasa with my left leg hanging out. Oh well, I wouldn’t tell the little guy about that, otherwise he might wonder how somebody as stupid as me could ever have flown ‘Real’ aeroplanes. 

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Adriana Marais hams it up for the cameras in an old space capsule.

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Face to Face R eport : G uy L eitch

25 RANDOM QUESTIONS FOR DR ADRIANA MARAIS Dr Adriana Marais is by any standards an extraordinary person.

Unquestionably

bright,

she

is

nonetheless

posturing on the world’s stages about living the rest of her life on Mars. Guy Leitch discusses the practicalities of this mission in his attitude for altitude column in SA Flyer this month. But what makes her tick? To understand Adriana as a person, here are her answers to 25 somewhat more personal questions:

1. Window or aisle seat? Aisle.

2. Classic or rock music? Rock.

3. How do you define art? As a crucial letter in STEAM- the tools with which to create a #ProudlyHuman future.

4. Party animal – or stay in with a good book? I make time for both [winking smiley] 5. What question do you hate to answer?

Will you have babies on Mars? (Clearly the end goal for a woman, whatever planet she’s on).

6. What are you most afraid of? That humans don’t evolve quickly enough to emerge from the current era.

7. What takes up too much of your time?

(Still) Trying to renew my passport.

8. What would be your first question after waking up from being cryogenically frozen for 100 years? Double espresso?

And take me to your leaders.

9. What car do you drive? I rent or Uber.

10. Have you ever bungy jumped - or skydive? My life is enough of a roller-coaster ride, haven’t felt the urge yet...

11. What are some things you’ve had to unlearn? Learning is a journey, always forwards.

12. What is something you will never do again? I try never to say never.

13. If there are two types of people in this world, what are the two types? People who accept the status quo and people who don’t.

14. Do you drink tap water? In countries where it’s possible.

15. Are women the stronger sex? For purposes of space travel, on average women are smaller and therefore eat, drink and breathe less and are therefore more resilient with fewer resources.

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16. Does being a smart woman discourage men? Only the ones who aren’t smart.

17. Is mankind intrinsically good or bad? Humans are more complex than being able to be categorised as good or bad.

18. Do you believe in other dimensions and parallel universes? These are possibilities.

19. If you had one wish – what would it be? I have no wishes, all is as it should be.

20. What skill do you wish you had?

Fly a helicopter (I’m currently in training).

21. How would you summarise your life purpose? Working towards a technology-enabled, sustainable and proudly human future, whatever planet we are on.

22. Gloria Steinem; “A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle.”– true or false? I have a less gender binary view of humans…

There’s no such thing as a single living organism, we all need each other.

23. Who is funding the Antarctic winter test? I am the project leader.

We’ll be launching officially next year and publicising details.

24. Is it OK to call you Adriana Mars?

Yip - the AI is an optional add on.

25. What do you want your epitaph to be? #ProudlyHuman 

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RIGHT: Dr Adriana Marais is an enigma.

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FOOD SECURITY FROM SATELLITES It is said that the next great war will be fought over water.

The UN predicts Africa’s population will expand to 2.3 billion people by 2050 - the equivalent of adding nearly twice China’s current population to Africa’s current populace. This has serious implications for national defence and security.

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HERE are already hundreds of millions of people who go to be hungry each day in Africa, and governments will have to find ways to house, clothe, feed, educate, skill, employ and provide healthcare to many more people than existing infrastructure and agriculture can sustain.

They key to proper planning and management of resources is seeing both the macro and the micro pictures. The recent advent of very high resolution optical and radar earth observation satellites is rapidly changing the way defence, security and land-use planners, farmers and other people in the value chain are able to work.

Satellites and Food Security Food insecurity is a continuous challenge in Africa. In South Africa, despite the agricultural sector being responsible for approximately 7% of formal employment and being crucial to South Africa’s overall socio-economic stability, the industry is faced with increasing uncertainty and low investment incentives.

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factors such as pest damage and disease. In addition, South Africa is host to a number of invasive plant species, which pose a threat to the sustainable production of healthy crops. These challenges can cause major crop failures, significant damage and losses.

South African farmers therefore need the appropriate near-real-time information on crop conditions; something satellites are very good at doing cost-effectively and for all of the different growing cycles.

THE APT RESPONSE In response to farmers’ requirements, Airbus partnered with the South Africa National Space Agency (SANSA), to design and implement Crop Watch for South Africa. This is a portal to valuable space data and imagery tailored to inform the optimised production of irrigated and dry land crops. It is also part-funded by the UK Space Agency.

SANSA was established in 2010 to promote the use of, and derive greater value from, space science and technology, for the benefit of South African society and industries.

The UK Space Agency’s International Partnership Space Programme (IPSP) is a

GBP £32 million two-year pilot initiative that opens opportunities for the UK to share expertise in satellite services and technology overseas through mutually beneficial international partnerships that promote wide societal and economic benefits from the use of satellite technology.

All of the data within the project, with the exception of field boundaries and ground truth information, was derived from satellite imagery. The DMC Constellation satellites were tasked to provide the primary dataset. The DMC Constellation provides rapid repeat coverage of the largest countries, regions and even continents. The DMC Constellation is capable of acquiring multispectral imagery at 22-24m resolution and panchromatic imagery at 12m. With their 640km swathe, they acquire significantly larger images than other satellites of similar resolution, making them ideal for wide area agricultural monitoring. Their fast revisit time is another key strength, allowing the delivery of a dense time-series of images.

Additional imagery was provided by the Airbus Sentinel-2, Landsat-8 and Spot 6/7 satellites.

The captured satellite imagery is analysed using Airbus’ Overland software,

which is unique in its ability to process batches of optical imagery into vegetation maps that are consistent across large areas and over time. They are also free from ground calibration unaffected by the light conditions or the sensor used. These maps feature biophysical parameters such as Fraction of Green Leaf Cover, Leaf Area Index (LAI), Fraction of Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation (FAPAR) and Chlorophyll-a (Chl-a). They generate datasets on the fraction of soil cover and surface humidity.

These biophysical parameter datasets were subsequently provided to SANSA, which add information on crop anomalies, such as areas where crop growth is not progressing as expected.

This collaborative approach, with parts of the processing chain belonging to both organisations, allowed SANSA to benefit from Airbus’s satellite and processing capabilities, whilst also having the flexibility to adapt the system to provide local bespoke products.

Airbus Defence and Space provides a variety of high resolution earth observation satellites, including the Disaster Monitoring Constellation (DMC), to deliver high frequency imaging anywhere on the globe.

For the bigger picture, the DMC radio satellites typically cover a wide swathe, several hundred kilometres wide, capturing very high definition images. Over a typical day, they generate images covering more than 60 million square kilometres.

In contrast, Airbus’ Pléiades optical satellites (there are three and they are in orbit 694km above Earth), are able to provide the fine micro detail needed for precision mapping and change detection analysis. They can also be tasked to record imagery over a specific area, location or even a particular installation, such as bridges and pipelines. Last month Airbus assigned a Pléiades satellite to capture images of the NAMPO agriculture trade expo at Bothaville in May this year, as it did in September 2018 when it captured images of AAD2018 at AFB Waterkloof.

Airbus makes its satellite images available to commercial subscribers and partners which then provide analyses and space data to their own customers, which typically include national, provincial and local government agencies as well as users in the agriculture, minerals exploration, forestry, energy and other critical sectors, from planners to individual farmers, mine managers, rangers, etc.

In addition to commercial activity, the DMC satellite imagery is provided free to humanitarian aid organisations responding to natural disasters such as tsunamis, floods, fires and cyclones.

Airbus has also developed a set of smart farming geo-intelligence tools, which it makes available directly to farmers and cooperatives.

FRUITLOOK – IT’S ABOUT EYES ON THE VINES In a related development, Airbus has assisted in developing FruitLook, a project launched in 2011 to provide farmers with an improved knowledge of water and crop management for fruit and

wine producing areas in South Africa’s Western Cape province.

It stemmed from the challenges presented by changing climate, rising input costs and increased competition for water, which are forcing South African producers to attain higher yields with less water.

FruitLook is coordinated by eLEAF, a Netherlands-based company that supplies reliable water and vegetation data for food production and environmental protection. The project received funding for the project from the Western Cape Department of Agriculture, Hortgro and the European Space Agency. FruitLook’s objective is to deliver satellite imagery-based information directly to fruit and wine-grape farmers through an open online portal.

However, in order to meet its objectives, FruitLook required reliable (in terms of data quality and delivery) and cloud-free optical data updated with several recordings a week. Again, this is where

DMC SATELLITE IMAGERY IS PROVIDED FREE TO HUMANITARIAN AID ORGANISATIONS RESPONDING TO NATURAL DISASTERS Airbus’s DMC constellation came into play. The satellite recordings are combined with other data sources and Surface Energy Balance Algorithm for Land (SEBAL) technology to produce information on moisture, growth and minerals for each crop. This information is updated weekly.

Farmers access the information through the FruitLook portal to assess vegetation index, biomass production, actual water use (evapotranspiration) and water productivity – all very important data, especially during the recent drought in some parts of the region.

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are able to identify problems with their irrigation systems, improve their disease management and in general, make better decisions on land block management. As a result, users have reported 10%-30% improvements in their water use efficiency.

FruitLook provides farmers weekly insights in crop production and water use during the growth season. A better informed farmer makes better decisions in farm resource management, which eventually leads to more efficient water use on their farm. As FruitLook is accessible to almost every fruit and wine grape farmer in the Western Cape it has the potential to improve

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water use efficiency at an unprecedented scale.

Monitoring threats to food production using satellite imagery has allowed thousands of South African farmers to make informed decisions on the health of their crops, therefore mitigating any negative effects and improving overall yield.

The DMC Constellation provides a cost-effective method for monitoring crop coverage and health over large areas and with a high frequency.

The range of biophysical parameters output from Overland™ supports a broad range of agricultural and land management

activities, including the improvement of farm and water resource management.

Users can also produce additional outputs tailored to their needs, while the nature of data acquisition and processing makes the service scalable to different areas of interest or frequencies of image acquisitions.

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CHALLENGES, OBSTACLES & HANDBRAKES ON AIRLINE INDUSTRY AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IN AFRICA - IATA Aviat ion supports $55. 8 billion of economic act ivity and 6. 2 million jobs in Africa. While this is impressive, we are only scratching the surface of what aviat ion can contribute to building Africa’s future.

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DDRESSING the annual African airlines Convention in Mauritius, IATA’s Raphael Kuuchi called for greater cooperation between governments and role players in the African airline industry. “To enable aviation to be an even bigger driver of prosperity across the

airports, manufacturers and suppliers of components and services. We can only win together. In fact, the success of any aviation business depends significantly on partnerships, networks and collaboration.

Aviation in Africa is experiencing unprecedented growth and therefore together operators and service providers Raphael Kuuchi - IATA plentipotentiary.

continent, we must work together and with governments,” Kuuchi said.

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will profit from the growth.

In my view, the theme “Winning Together” is wider than attaining success and sustainability. We want aviation to catalyse growth and deliver socio-economic

development.

• To improve competitiveness, • To develop effective infrastructure, • To modernize the regulatory framework with a focus on global standards • To ensure a well-trained and diverse workforce COMPETITIVENESS The global airline industry is enjoying good times. The average profit per passenger is $7.45. Air transport is yielding a return greater than cost of capital. It is still however, a tough business as the airlines in Africa, on average, lose $1.55 for every passenger carried.

• There are many reasons for the poor performance of African airlines. Africa is an expensive place for airlines to do business.

• Jet fuel costs are 35% higher in than the rest of the world.

• Aircraft departure fees are 30% above the global average.

• And taxes and fees are among the highest in the world There is no shortage of examples illustrating the heavy burden that governments and service providers exert on aviation: • In Niger $80 from each ticket is paid to the government in fees taxes and charges • Cameroon recently added a $37

development tax per passenger DPR Congo charges every arriving passenger $15 to promote tourism— rather counter-productive if you think of it Too many African governments tax aviation as a luxury rather than a necessity.

We must change that perception. The value of aviation for governments is not in the tax receipts that can be squeezed from it. It is in the economic growth and job creation that aviation supports.

Another important element of competitiveness for airlines is the ability to reliably repatriate earnings—in line with international treaty obligations. So the African countries blocking over $1.0 billion of airline funds are a big concern.

Many of these countries are facing severe economic challenges. But blocking airline funds puts connectivity at risk. And that invites even broader economic problems.

It is in everybody’s interest to ensure that airlines are paid on-time, at fair exchange rates and in full. And when problems are on the horizon, urgent dialogue is the first step.

IATA has had success in Nigeria and Egypt where government actions completely cleared the backlog of funds. Some gains have also been made in Angola. We urge other Governments to do the same.

Infrastructure On infrastructure, sufficient runways, terminals, airspace capacity to meet demand, technical and commercial service quality aligned with airline needs and affordability are what largely lacks in Africa.

In Africa we have problems in two extremes.

• At one end, when infrastructure is built, too often we see unnecessary and unfit infrastructure with a hefty price tag. The strategy to avoid this is dialogue from the earliest stages of any infrastructure project.

• The other extreme is where we see the need for critical capacity to be built. Ghana, Senegal, South Africa have taken a collaborative approach to infrastructure— including pricing—that is producing positive results for all stakeholders. But there are critical bottlenecks in other major cities. If planes cannot land, the economic benefits that they bring will fly elsewhere.

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On airport privatisation, industry passed a resolution at the last IATA AGM calling on governments to be cautious when considering airport privatization, and urged broad and rigorous consultation to make the right decisions and ensure that they gain the best long-term economic and social benefits.

We are putting the resolution into practice in some countries where governments are considering a privatepublic partnership in the future development of airports. IATA is providing guidance to the governments, including the economic regulation that will be needed to make them a success for all stakeholders and provide the connectivity that the countries need to develop.

HARMONISED REGUL ATION IATA has been promoting the concept of Smarter Regulation. In simple terms, Smarter Regulation seeks to solve real problems through dialogue and partnership between the industry and governments. It is achieved through a transparent, objective, and consultative process, guided by global standards.

Global standards help us connect the world efficiently and safely. They provide certainty and clarity to all parties at stake.

They allow us to collectively address the most pressing issues, which directly impact our lives. And Smarter Regulation ensures that all stakeholders are in the discussion, maximizing the benefit and impact.

IATA continues its work to achieve the universal adoption of two important global standards: • The Montreal Convention 1999 (MC99) establishes a modern approach to liability and is a key enabler of our efforts to achieve our e-freight vision. A number of African countries already ratified this convention and we are optimistic that other states will do so soon.

• The adoption of the Montreal Protocol 2014 (MP14) which provides an international legal framework for dealing with unruly passengers is another key focus. Africa states were instrumental in its creation. And 8 out of 19 states that ratified it so far are from the continent. We just need three more states to join for the treaty to take effect. We hope that an African state is the one to

bring MP14 into force.

There is also a completely “made in Africa” policy initiative which we are wholeheartedly supporting. That’s the African Union Single Africa Air Transport Market (SAATM) project. It is such a pain to get around this continent by any means of transport including air. This inefficiency has an economic cost. The low density of the African intra-continental network makes it impossible to realize the potential benefits of a connected African economy.

Today, intra-African travel is 45% more expensive than world averages. SAATM—if implemented—gives Africa the potential for economic transformation.

Twenty-eight states have signed on to SAATM. Now they need to follow promises with action. History has shown that opening markets leads to rapid advances in connectivity. In the case of Africa it must be accompanied with a reduction in onerous visa requirements. We are confident that the results of 28 states that have signed on to SAATM will make a powerful case for the remaining 27 to come on board quickly.

WORKFORCE Lastly, developing the human talent that we will need to realise the potential for Africa’s aviation future is critical. Africa needs skilled aviation professionals in far greater numbers than we have today and the capacity to develop skills is limited. Even today, finding and retaining the right talent is a challenge. As connectivity improves and traffic grows, this could get worse if not addressed.

IATA has long been active in this area.

Many African aviation professionals are trained each year, either directly by IATA, or via the International Airline Training Fund. A particular focus for IATA going forward is engaging more women in the aviation workforce. With conscious capacity development initiatives we are confident that Africa will have a well-trained and diverse workforce to power the industry forward.

Kuuchi concluded by saying that “the prospects for aviation growth are bright in Africa. It is a region that is developing fast and expanding its trade links to markets around the world. Profitability will come when airlines are freed from political constraints, and the continent’s skies are opened up to encourage growth. Already safety and security challenges are been reduced through rigorous application of global standards.” 

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AVIATION & TOURISM DEVELOPMENT Aviation and tourism are complementary sectors that have not received adequate and cooperative development efforts in Africa over the decades, even though many experts believe that collaborative strategies are essential for aviation and tourism development in Africa.

General aviation plays an essential role in tourism in Africa.

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HE International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) and the United Nations World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) have now established a high level framework for joint development of air transport and tourism in Africa.

The two global bodies held the First

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UNWTO/ICAO Ministerial Conference on Tourism and Air Transport in Africa in Sal, Cape Verde, late March, 2019, setting up a coalition that includes the African Union Commission (AUC), international and regional organisations and the private sector to drive the cooperative development of air transport and tourism in Africa.

Among plans developed in Cape Verde

was for partners to ensure “the bridging of air transport and tourism policies and the advancement of innovative and sustainable solutions to encourage air connectivity development as a means to deliver the sustainable development goals set forth under the African Union (AU) Agenda 2063 and the United Nations (UN)’s 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.”

Passengers at check-in at Murtala Mohammed airport Nigeria.

The key impetus is for Africa’s institutions such as the AUC, African Regional Economic Communities (RECs), the AFCAC, the NPCA, the AfDB, private sector, international partners and other stakeholders to take concrete action to redefine cooperation, infrastructure, destination and management strategy. This involves the institutionalisation of the Single African Air Transport Market (SAATM) at the State level by developing the necessary domestic legal and regulatory framework to fully implement it. It also involves aligning and integrating major aviation and tourism infrastructure projects with national and/or regional development plans and budgets.

Regarding the new ICAO-UNWTO-led cooperation, Dr Olumuyiwa Benard Aliu, ICAO Council President, remarked: “I am sure that through the continued cooperation of ICAO, the UNWTO, the African Union, and all of our diverse development partners and member States, the required technical expertise, resources, and support to implement the outcome of this conference will be fully assured.”

The UNWTO Secretary-General, Zurab Pololikashvili, is optimistic about the joint efforts to boost aviation and tourism.

He stated that “the results of the UNWTO Visa Openness Report 2019 for Africa very encouraging and will support African destinations with evidence-based policy making and helping prioritise activities within their facilitation policies.”

Charles Romel Banda, Minister of Tourism, Zambia, and chair of the UNWTO Executive Council, said that “Tourism and transport policies should be harmonised and integrated in our respective countries and at the regional level, if we are to fulfil our expectations of increased arrivals and earnings. It is important that all of us political leaders that attended this conference commit ourselves to the full implementation of the Cabo Verde Ministerial Declaration on Air Transport and Tourism Development in Africa in accordance with the plan of action 20192021 that we have just approved.”

In the Declaration, the Ministers also agreed to “raise political willingness to the highest level to mainstream the priorities of the two sectors in the national, regional and global development agendas.” In particular, this would address the poor understanding

of aviation at the highest level of government decision-makers, and engender stronger political support to aviation nay tourism development.

AFCAC as the executing agency of the Yamoussoukro Decision (YD) and the SAATM, is embarking or drives to educate

and energy infrastructure, with the theme, “Developing SMART Infrastructure to boost Africa’s Continental Transformation and Integration.”

According to the AU, Ministers from 39 African countries confirmed their commitment to consider strategies

39 African countries confirmed their commitment to smart infrastructure. governments and African airlines on the guiding rules and benefits of implementing the SAATM. Peter Amaleboba, Legal Adviser of AFCAC, emphasised the essence of SAATM to the successful implementation of tourism and air transport development strategies, just as Mr. Tefera Mekonen, Secretary General of AFCAC, urged all African States to commit to full implementation of SAATM. INFR ASTRUCTURE – THE EGYPT DECL AR ATION On the heels of the landmark Declaration in Cape Verde, another high level meeting took place in Cairo under the auspices of AU Ministers, aimed at bolstering Africa’s air transport, tourism

for developing smart infrastructure to boost Africa’s continental transformation and integration, by adopting the Egypt Declaration and Action Plans for the Transport, Energy and Tourism sectors.

These events will give new impetus to renewed efforts to create bespoke joint strategies for air transport and tourism development in Africa. This will ride on the back of sustained growth and projections for growth in the two sectors over the next two decades.

GROW TH TRENDS While several economies in Africa have some of the highest growth rates in the world reaching about 8%, Africa’s economic growth is put at about 4-5%. The

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forecast growth in aviation on the continent is also about 4% over the next two decades.

However tourism in Africa has maintained impressive growth over the last ten years, with strong prospects to grow by 5% over the next 20 years.

The UNWTO stated recently: “In Sub Saharan Africa, strong performance continued in large destinations such as Kenya, Côte d’Ivoire, Mauritius and Zimbabwe. The sub-region’s top destination, South Africa, reported slower growth in arrivals although a strong increase in receipts. Island destinations Seychelles, Cabo Verde and Reunion; all reported double-digit growth in arrivals, benefiting from increased air connectivity.”

The London-based World Travel & Tourism Council (WTTC) stated that “Travel & Tourism in Africa is booming, growing 5.6% in 2018 compared to the global average of 3.9% and the broader African economy rate of 3.2%. This places Africa as the second-fastest growing tourism region behind only Asia-Pacific.”

These growth trends create excitement among investors and operators who are optimistic about the new international commitment to jointly develop Africa’s air transport and tourism. However, despite the current and projected growth in aviation tourism, Africa should target over 10% of global passenger figures and global tourism visits to create the economic impact needed locally and globally. Many however view the current growth rates as an encouraging base for increasing Africa’s share of global tourism and passenger traffic.

Complementary Development Structures At the African Union (AU) level, Africa is taking a bold leap to transform transportation and internal integration. The current efforts to establish Africa-wide air transport liberalisation under the SAATM aims at enabling African airlines to easily interconnect existing and new African city-pairs - many of which are tourism and

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business routes. This will boost air transport and tourism in Africa. So also would the efforts to create the Africa Continental Free Trade area (ACFTA) and the Single African Passport initiative.

It is instructive to note that nearly ten separate declarations on aviation and tourism in Africa have been achieved over the last decade, and their implementation will prepare the foreground for the successful implementation of the action plans of the Ministerial Declaration on Air Transport and Tourism Development in Africa.

Already, while the President of the Republic of Cabo Verde, Mr. Jorge Carlos de Almeida Fonseca, is pushing tourism forward as a key revenue earner in the country, Cape Verde is also fostering integration with countries in mainland Africa. Nigeria and Cape Verde recently renewed their commitment to establish exchange of air services.

BELOW: Border restrictions are being reconsidered.

GETTING REALISTIC Due to the lack of policies to promote tourism and encourage investors, most of Africa’s tourism spots are unexploited.

Many of these untapped tourism locations have lack of security and poor infrastructure that overshadow the value of these tourism locations. For aviation, on the other hand, inordinate taxes, charges and fees as well as the absence of proper understanding and support by government and relevant economic sectors have been the bane of air transport development in Africa.

These recent and on-going air transport and tourism frameworks mark the beginning of a new phase of development for Africa.

How far Africa will go depends on how realistically policy, infrastructure and economic bottlenecks are resolved across the continent. Africa no longer requires mere growth, but phenomenal growth to see a difference. 

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T flew from Toulouse to northern Greenland and back, in an endurance flight that included a simulated diversion under 180 min ETOPS rules, for which the A320 airliner family is already certificated.

The aircraft is due to be delivered to K5 Aviation of Germany in the coming months, after ACJ319neo flight-trials are completed.

The ACJ319neo is derived from the A320neo airliner Family, which features new engines and wingtipmounted Sharklets.

“Airbus’ modern aircraft family takes the world in its stride with robust reliability, and corporate jet operators are natural beneficiaries of this airliner heritage, which also brings comparable operating costs to traditional business jets,” said ACJ President Benoit Defforge.

K5 Aviation’s ACJ319neo is fitted with five additional centre tanks (ACTs) in its cargo-hold, and includes improvements such as a lower cabin-altitude for greater passenger comfort.

Corporate jet orders and commitments for A320neo Family-derived aircraft now total 14. 

LEFT: Record setting ACJ319neo with its flight crew.

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AVIATION NAMPO STYLE You would be excused for thinking that it is an agricultural show with an aviation problem, but NAMPO is the largest gathering of South African civil registered aircraft at a non-aviation event at one place at one time.

NAMPO - The biggest aviation fly-in that isn't an aviation fly-in.

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AMPO is the annual four-day agricultural trade show hosted in the small town of Bothaville, South Africa. It is a showcase for innovative services, solutions and equipment. Last yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s event drew over 80,000 trade visitors, making it a very attractive trade show

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for aviation companies to offer support and services to its clients as the show has become a popular fly on too.

With around 200 aircraft arriving just on the second day of the show, NAMPO airfield becomes the busiest piece of aero estate in the country. It for this reason that the likes of Absolute Aviation Group, GoodYear Aviation, Century Avionics and

even Airbus have taken the opportunity to participate at this massive trade show.

On the general aviation side, Absolute Aviation Group hosted the pilotsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; tent and assisted with minor technical issues that arose such as flat tyres and batteries.

Century Avionics had on offer their latest products from Garmin, Bose and David Clarke.

Airbus showcased its latest helicopter and satellite geo-intelligence solutions for the development of productive and sustainable farming and other agricultural practices. Airbus Helicopters promoted its versatile, robust, rugged and reliable singleengine H125 and H130 helicopters. The 5-seat H125 and 8-seat H130 are well-suited to aerial work such as crop-spraying, cargosling operations, powerline and game fence inspection, fire-fighting, animal census and anti-poaching missions.

Airbus is also a leader in satellite earth observation. It has operated a constellation of radar and optical satellites and for over 30 years, with their imagery used for agricultural applications. Every day, worldwide, tens of thousands of farmers rely on Airbusâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; geo-intelligence and information solutions to better manage their farming activities. Typically, they provide detailed biophysical descriptions of soil properties, vegetation, foliage cover and the atmosphere. ď&#x192;ź

Exhibitors ranged from Airbus to Century Avionics.

Airbus fields questions on its satellite imaging.

A low-res version of an image of the NAMPO 2019 showgrounds captured by an Airbus.

PleĚ iades satellite orbiting 694km above Earth.

The helicopter park was also impressively full.

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News O wen H eckrath

OLD FAITHFUL

OUT TO PASTURE

The MAX grounding saga appears to be reaching a conclusion.

Honeywell Aerospace has finally retired its Convair 580 test aircraft after 67 years of service, 103,000 landings and 67,000 total flight hours, according to a recent company announcement .

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ATA gathered using the aircraft helped engineers create Honeywell’s Enhanced Ground Proximity Warning System (EGPWS), Traffic Alert and Collision Avoidance System, and IntuVue RDR-4000 Weather Radar System. The company says testing of the IntuVue RDR-4000 included “flying the Convair under and directly into thunderstorms over the Everglades and off the coast of Florida” while EGPWS testing involved flying “directly toward mountainous terrain to test that the warning signals in the EGPWS were activating when the aircraft was too close to dangerous terrain features.”

“You have to have confidence in your aircraft to be around mountains, thunderstorms and volcanos, because you’re flying so close to terrain, you’ll experience a lot of turbulence. Thankfully, the Convair is a heavy-duty aircraft and has very reliable engines,” said Honeywell Aerospace chief test pilot Randy Moore. “I always thought of it like a 1952 Chevy pickup. That’s what the Convair was like.” Moore has flown the company’s 580 since 2004.

Honeywell’s Convair 580 has a long and well-documented history. Certified on January 15, 1952, it will finally be retired to a planned aviation museum in Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada.  Old Faithful Convair 580 retires.

MAX SAGA NEARING AN END? In what is hoped will be the penultimate interchange in this ongoing saga, Boeing recent ly announced that it has completed development of updated software for the 737 MA X , as well as concluding the associated simulator testing and completing the company’s engineering test flight .

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HE software update is designed to address faults with the aircraft’s Manoeuvring Characteristics Augmentation System (MCAS) that are widely considered to have significantly contributed to the fatal accidents of Lion Air Flight 610 and Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302. Boeing says it has also developed new training and education materials that are now being reviewed by the FAA, global regulators and airlines “to support return-to-service and longerterm operations.”

According to Boeing, it is now addressing FAA requests for additional information, which “include detail on how pilots interact with the airplane controls and displays in different flight scenarios.”

From there, Boeing and the FAA will schedule the certification test flight and Boeing will submit final certification documentation for the new software. “We’re committed to providing the FAA and global regulators all the information they need, and are making clear and steady progress to getting it right,” said Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg.

The Boeing 737 MAX has been grounded since March. 

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BACKPAGE DIRECTORY A1A Flight Examiner (Loutzavia) Jannie Loutzis 012 567 6775 / 082 416 4069 jannie@loutzavia.co.za www.loutzavia.co.za Adventure Air Lande Milne 012 543 3196 / Cell: 066 4727 848 l.milne@venture-sa.co.za www.ventureglobal.biz AES (Cape Town) Erwin Erasmus 082 494 3722 erwin@aeroelectrical.co.za www.aeroelectrical.co.za AES (Johannesburg) Danie van Wyk 011 701 3200 office@aeroelectrical.co.za www.aeroelectrical.co.za

Dart Aircraft Electrical ATNS Mathew Joubert Percy Morokane 011 827 0371 011 607 1234 Dartaircraftelectrical@gmail.com percymo@atns.co.za www.dartaero.co.za www.atns.com Aviation Direct DJA Aviation Insurance 011 464 5550 Andrea Antel 0800Flying 011 465 2669 mail@dja-aviation.co.za info@aviationdirect.co.za www.dja-aviation.co.za www.aviationdirect.co.za Avtech Aircraft Services Riekert Stroh 082 555 2808 / 082 749 9256 avtech1208@gmail.com BAC Aviation AMO 115 Micky Joss 035 797 3610 monicad@bacmaintenance.co.za

Blackhawk Africa Cisca de Lange 083 514 8532 cisca@blackhawk.aero www.blackhawk.aero

Dynamic Propellers Andries Visser 011 824 5057 082 445 4456 andries@dynamicpropeller.co.za www.dynamicpropellers.co.za Eagle Aviation Helicopter Division Tamryn van Staden 082 657 6414 tamryn@eaglehelicopter.co.za www.eaglehelicopter.co.za

Eagle Flight Academy Mr D. J. Lubbe 082 557 6429 training@eagleflight.co.za www.eagleflight.co.za

GIB Aviation Insurance Brokers Richard Turner 011 483 1212 aviation@gib.co.za www.gib.co.za Gryphon Flight Academy Jeffrey Von Holdt 011 701 2600 info@gryphonflight.co.za www.gryphonflight.co.za

Guardian Air 011 701 3011 082 521 2394 ops@guardianair.co.za www.guardianair.co.za

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