Business & Commercial Aviation

TrueNorth Avionics has introduced Simphone Pro, its latest cabin communications system, with a special upgrade program for legacy Simphone installations. The company says upgrading requires no more than pulling out the old system and plugging in the new. The upgraded unit is a 4MCU offering Wi-Fi, high-fidelity telephony, with a full-featured VoIP PBX, enterprise email and seamless connectivity for smartphones and other personal electronic devices. The system is available with and without dual Iridium voice and data channels.

There's a new campaign underway to fully restore the Burgess-Wright Model F Aircraft that landed on the White House lawn a century ago and put it on permanent display at Reagan National Airport’s Historic Terminal A. Designed by the Wright Brothers and manufactured under license by Starling Burgess, the Model F landed on the South Lawn of the White House on July 14, 1911.

Gulfstream Aerospace has developed the first phase of a mobile application to help Gulfstream operators streamline flight operations, the company says. The Performance iPad app, a companion to Gulfstream’s PlaneBook electronic suite of flight crew information, allows Gulfstream G650 or G650ER flight crews to calculate performance data for takeoffs and landings, replacing paper charts and manual calculations.

Russia's TsAGI aerohydrodynamic research institute has completed initial wind tunnel tests of an agricultural unmanned aircraft developed by Tatarstan's Aviaresheniya design bureau. The tests at airspeeds up to 72 kph (45 mph) were conducted in TsAGI’s full-scale wind tunnel in Moscow. The vertical-takeoff-and-landing UAV has two lifting propellers mounted side-by-wide within an open framework. What appear to be vanes under the two-blade props likely provide flight control.

European business aircraft brokers and operators have been the victims of cyberattacks in increasing numbers, said London-based BACA, the Air Charter Association. It appears a “sophisticated criminal community” is targeting the business aviation sector and has hacked into broker and operator internal communication systems to gain access to bank accounts and trading information, BACA said. Attacks have taken place throughout the UK and Europe, it said. The rise in attacks was reported during the 438th meeting of the BACA Council, it said.

Carlo Logli, the CEO of Italy's Piaggio Aerospace, resigned in late August, just weeks after masterminding the company's restructuring.

Business aviation flight activity was positive during the first half of this year, with activity up in five of the six months compared to the same period a year ago, according to Argus International TraqPak data. April was the only month to post a decrease over 2015 flight activity, with a 0.6% decline. Flight activity is expected to rise 3.4% in August, September and October when compared to the same period in 2015, TraqPak analysts predict.

Bombardier Aerospace says it plans to periodically pause completions work in Montreal on the Global 5000 and 6000 next year and will furlough employees during those periods.

The Quest Kodiak recently received type certification in Chile, its 23rd such approval. The company reports several additional certifications are imminent.

I realized I was falling into an all-too-common, part-time, contract copilot trap. I could put everyone on the aircraft at risk if I blindly assumed that my basic FAR Part 61.55 legal compliance truly prepared me to belt into the right seat.

In August 2016, Teterboro Airport again was the business aviation airport viewed more than any other by acukwik.com users, according to site traffic data. Dig into the data to spot more trends.

As the value leader in the single-engine turboprop class, the M600 has potential to carve out a considerably larger share of this market segment for Piper.

At the end of a remarkable chain of inaccurate weather forecasts and missed communications opportunities, two Boeing 737-800s operated by different Australian airlines had to bust minimums within minutes of each other to prevent really bad outcomes.

Dean Rush, a pilot and former corporate CEO turned pastor, tells BCA how lessons from his business career shaped his current goal.

BCA breaks down mission costs — direct costs, fuel expenses and per-mile costs — as well as flight times for turboprops heavier than 12,500 lb. and jets lighter than 20,000 lb.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) researchers have developed a way of reinforcing composites using tiny carbon nanotubes (CNT) that testing has shown can increase strength by 30%.

Jet-A And Avgas Per-Gallon Fuel Prices August 2016

It’s reasonable to ask just how reliable are FANS and its constituent parts.

Honeywell International has sold its government-focused engineering and operations services business unit to a private equity giant KBR for roughly $300 million, the companies said.

Unless an engine exhibits gross damage or erosion, you may want to hire a qualified inspector from an approved service provider to pull an engine.

Geneva-based Tag Aviation has joined Stratagem's booking platform, to give Tag Aviation customers access to Stratajet customers as part of their booking options.

With each new generation of aircraft, we are treated to levels of automation unparalleled in performance and reliability.

Graphs are designed to illustrate the performance of Piper M600 [PA-46-600TP] under a variety of range, payload, speed and density altitude conditions. Do not use these data for flight planning because they are gross approximations of actual aircraft performance.

Designers attempt to give exceptional capabilities in all areas, including price, but the laws of physics, thermodynamics and aerodynamics do not allow one aircraft to do all missions with equal efficiency. Tradeoffs are a reality of aircraft design.

Market research provider ReportsnReports.com forecasts the global aviation fuel market to grow at a compound annual rate of 3.13% through 2020.