Business & Commercial Aviation

The Department of Transportation says the FAA has finished less than half of the promised initiatives following a call to action on preventing runway incursions.

Due to several active volcanoes, including Kilauea in Hawaii and Fuego in Guatemala, the NBAA is urging pilots to avoid flying in areas with volcanic ash.

Following months of negotiations, Boeing and Embraer have signed a MOU to set up a JV comprising Embraer's commercial aircraft and services business.

Membership carrier Surf Air has filed a counterclaim to a lawsuit from Encompass Aviation saying the latter demanded payments far over proposed contract rates.

Simcom Aviation Training has added a new Citation Mustang FAA Level C full-flight simulator and is offering initial, recurrent and upgrade training for Mustang aircraft at its Scottsdale, Arizona, training center.

As of Aug. 1, Nextant Aerospace has ended its introductory discount pricing for installation of Pro Line Fusion avionics on Challenger 604XT aircraft.

ATP Flight School recently took delivery of 10 new Cessna 172s, adding to the 15 it accepted last December and raising the school's training fleet to 323.

Kansas State University's Polytechnic Campus in Salina has received an FAA waiver to fly unmanned aircraft systems beyond the line-of-sight.

As pilots retire from the airlines and take corporate flying jobs, what kind of liability are they assuming?

Raisbeck has received an FAA STC for its five-blade composite swept propeller and four-blade aluminum swept propeller for the King Air 300/300LW.

Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao acknowledges the 1,500-hr. ATP requirement to become a U.S. airline pilot has effectively cut the ranks of eligible pilots.

Charter operator VistaJet reported a 32% increase in subscribers in the first half of 2018 with the number of European contracts doubling over the 2017 period.

The U.S. Marine Corps reportedly is offering its pilots a bonus of up to $210,000 if they agree to stay in the service for an additional six years. The U.S. Air Force and Navy have announced similar bonuses.

We've all heard: "When the weight of the paperwork equals the weight of the airplane, you are ready to fly." And it's never truer than when you fly transoceanic.

The much-anticipated Pilatus PC-24 might well be named the big Swiss surprise. Many people confuse it for a turbofan-powered variant of the PC-12.

PC-24's ACE flight deck, powered by Honeywell Epic 2.0 avionics, features 12-in. screens, point-and-click graphic user interface and several advanced features.

"Fatigue-related performance problems in aviation have been consistently underestimated and underappreciated."

Lack of sleep has been linked to a cornucopia of health problems: diabetes, obesity, memory issues, delayed immune response, cancer and mental health disorders.

The House of Representatives version of the FAA Reauthorization Act of 2018 contains a section seeking to update the fatigue rules for FAR Part 135 pilots.

The 1995-2005 Hawker 800XP was the best-selling Hawker model of all time and the most popular midsize jet of its era. It is still a workhorse.

Between 2010 and 2012, more than 6,000 European pilots were asked to self-assess the level of fatigue they experienced during their flight duties. The surveys confirm that pilot fatigue is a common, dangerous and underreported phenomenon in Europe.

BCA compares the PC-24's specifications and performance attributes to the characteristics of other aircraft in its class.

Aircraft operating costs are presented in a format that separates the operating cost information into six areas.

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