Business & Commercial Aviation

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.

West Star Aviation has acquired hangars at Perryville Regional Airport in Missouri and soon will establish its fourth full-service maintenance facility there.

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

TAG Farnborough Airport has won carbon-neutral status from Airports Council International-Europe, making it the first carbon-neutral business aviation airport.

Jetex has announced it has signed an MOU with the AERIA airport management company to be the operator and manager of the new FBO in Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire.

Jet Linx, based in Omaha, Nebraska, has opened a private terminal in Detroit. The terminal includes a private meeting room, executive lounge, Wi-Fi connectivity and staffing.

Questions for Fred Lewis, chairman of Black Pilots of America Inc.

Readers comment on recent articles in BCA.

BCA editor-in-chief remembers Richard L. Collins, long the editor-in-chief of Flying and later AOPA Pilot magazines.

Selected accidents and incidents in June 2018

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.

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.

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.

Oxfordjet FBO and London Oxford Airport has received the Best Business Aviation Airport award for the second successive year.

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

Two design features make the PC-24 engines stand apart from competitors.

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.

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

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.

AirPower Software specializes in the design and development of aviation software products used to analyze aircraft operating costs, charter and leasing strategies, and solutions to aid in the identification of business aircraft suitable for various mission needs.

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

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

These graphs are designed to illustrate the performance of Pilatus PC-24 under a variety of range, payload, speed and density altitude conditions.