Preventing Fan Cowl Door Loss

Fan cowl door loss events are still reported to Airbus. In all cases, the fan cowl doors were not latched closed and secured following a maintenance task.This article provides an update on the design and procedure improvements introduced on the Airbus fleet to prevent fan cowl door loss events.

What About Golden Rules for Pilots

The Airbus Golden Rules for pilots are high level operational guidelines on how pilots should fly modern technology aircraft, how they interact with complex auto flight systems and how the PF and the PM work together with the aircraft as one team.

Correct Escape Slides Maintenance for Successful Slides Deployment

It is of the outmost importance to make sure that escape slides’ maintenance is properly done so that they can deploy correctly when they are the most needed. This article recalls the importance of reporting scheduled and unscheduled slide deployment results to Airbus. It highlights the most common causes of unsuccessful slide deployments and provide recommendations […]

What About Temperature Corrections During Approach

In this briefing you will review - The basic concept of the temperature effect on altitude measurement - The impact that low temperatures have on Airbus aircraft - The different ways to manage temperature corrections

Lessons Learned About the Teach-in Function

This article has been updated in November 2025. It was initially published in January 2019.Emergency lights must illuminate when required for aircraft evacuations. If maintenance is not performed correctly, this can compromise the availability of the emergency lights.