Vape into the cockpit hidden behavior?

Some time ago, the oxygen mask fell off and the emergency drop occurred on Air China CA106 flight from Hong Kong to Dalian. The result of the Civil Aviation Bureau investigation was that the crew was accidentally shutting down the air-conditioning module after the first officer smoked the electronic cigarette. Then, can the vape be taken on board, and is the regulation for the crew different from ordinary passengers?

Vapes are generally composed of batteries, atomizers and E-liquid. Most of the vapes use lithium batteries. The customer service staff of the Capital Airport said that whether vapes can be carried on the aircraft requires the specifications of batteries and E-liquids.

"The equipment containing lithium batteries can be checked by students. The rated energy of the battery is 100 watts or less. The air department approves the safety check at 100 to 160 watts before it can be released. If it is more than 160 watts, it will not be able to take it. Separate E -liquid can be checked. If you have a small amount of E-liquid and vapes, a small amount can be used with Shenyan."

Zhang Qihuai, executive vice president and secretary general of the Beijing Institute of Aeronautics and Law, believes that the security requirements of the crew should be the same or even stricter.

“The safety requirements of the crew should be as strict as the passengers. All safety standards during the flight and security inspections are uniform. The crew members who cannot carry the cargo cannot carry the crew. To some extent, they enter the cockpit. The requirements are more stringent, and items not related to flight are not portable."

At present, vapes have not been banned from being taken on board. Zhang Qihuai believes that this is a blank in the security regulations and should be replenished in time.

"He can smoke when he arrives on the plane, so it will produce smoke, and it will be a part of the ban. Therefore, I suggest that the carrying of this electronic cigarette should be a standard for security inspection. There is only one purpose for carrying it. That is, you have to have a cigarette addiction on the plane, which is actually a negligence and loophole in our safety standards."

In the Civil Aviation Authority's 1997 Regulations on No Smoking in Civil Airports and Civil Aircraft, the cockpit was not classified as a no-smoking area. Wang Ya-nan, editor-in-chief of Aviation Knowledge magazine, believes that many foreign companies consider the impact on the “smokers” and do not force smoking in the cockpit.

"There is no strong prohibition in law, it is equivalent to saying that. In many foreign countries, for example, some pilots may have smoked for a long time, it will be written on the above, then the company has not made mandatory regulations, the main reason is Because of the accuracy of the pilot's operation and the agility of the response."

However, in 2017, the latest revised “Regulations for the Operation of Large Aircraft Public Air Transport Carriers” clearly states that “no one shall smoke on an aircraft operating in accordance with these Rules.” Zhang Qihuai believes that the interior of the cockpit is high-precision equipment. More should be banned from smoking.

“The interior of the cockpit is high-precision equipment, and should be banned from smoking, the area of the cockpit and the various high-precision instruments and switches inside it. There are hundreds of highly sealed instrument bays and cockpits with high precision. How can it be? Smoking? And this smoke can easily trigger an alarm in the cockpit's smoke detector."

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