A little "rogh" translation, and a lesson to all of us...... Have fun, and do bring some napkins to dry up your tears of laughter
Cimber Sterling Flight Ops Manager:
- “Barell Roll” is not aerobatic flight "
Cimber Sterling points out factual errors in the debate on Jorgen Nielsen “Barell Roll” writes its Flight Ops Manager Soren Byrjalsen.
"Given the features / articles that have recently been placed in various media conc. Jørgen Nielsens “Barell Roll” in May last year, will Cimber Sterling clarify a couple of overlooked details.
Not aerobatic flight
First, it is not an aerobatic flight manoeuvre. It is a flying manoeuvre; you can use to restore the normal flight position where violent winds or turbulence has pushed the plane into an abnormal position. In such a case it would be far more burdensome for the aircraft to be pushed back instead of letting the aircraft roll all around. All pilots are trained for this manoeuvre in the simulator, while not being trained for example to perform loops or other synthetic flight manoeuvres. It is mandatory that a pilot must be able to correct the aircraft from unusual attitude. And every passenger plane must be able to perform this manoeuvre without hesitation.
The plane was not overloaded
And secondly, we note that the criticism comes from a single civilian trained pilot who has never flown in the aircraft, which rolled was perpetrated, and we are in possession of official papers from ATR plant, which clearly rejects that the aircraft in any way should have been burdened by such manoeuvre. It goes without saying that we believe to be tackled in the long end of the expertise - and that this perspective has been omitted in this ongoing discussion of the case.
Administrative errors
what was Jorgen Nielsen errors and why SLV's (DK-CAA) raised finger was not performing the manoeuvre flown by itself, but that flight was not considered a test flight.
In test flights the aircraft fly Many times to its full potential and testing various abnormal situations. One example is the engines and testing everything else in the aircraft's systems.
Jørgen Nielsen certified test flight pilot, but his error in this case was not the roll in itself but that the flight was "only" approved for a flight to Eindhoven and not a test flight. So it is of a purely administrative nature.
You are very welcome to come back with further questions.
Sincerely, Søren Byrjalsen, Flight Commander ATR, Cimber Sterling "
Read ATRs conclusion HERE