Business & Commercial Aviation

By William Garvey, Jessica A. Salerno, Molly McMillin
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.
Business Aviation

By Fred George
Cruising with autothrottles set for a certain angle-of-attack can save enough Jet-A to avoid a refueling stop.
Business Aviation

By William Garvey, Jessica A. Salerno, Molly McMillin
Surf Air, the California-based air travel operator that offers all-you-can-fly private air travel, plans to launch operations in Europe beginning next month.
Business Aviation

By David Esler
What crews should know about the Future Air Navigation System
Connected Aerospace

Tired of climbing into a cramped cockpit and contending with cumulonimbus and demanding passengers? Why not instead don a pair of fuzzy slippers, settle into a recliner and become a remote pilot in command?
Business Aviation

By William Garvey, Jessica A. Salerno, Molly McMillin
The Civil Air Patrol recently ordered 17 Cessna Skylane 182Ts and two Turbo Stationair HD T206Hs.
Business Aviation

By David Esler
Ultimately you're going to have to upgrade to ADS-C and CPDLC to operate above FL 280 in most oceanic airspace anyway (e.g., by Jan. 1, 2020, in the North Atlantic), but here's what you're missing out on now in the North Atlantic Track System.
Business Aviation

By Fred George
Operators say that cabin and cockpit width, range performance, low profile ramp presence, solid dispatch reliability and good product support from Bombardier are among the 604's best features.
Business Aviation

By William Garvey, Jessica A. Salerno, Molly McMillin
Oscar Garcia, chairman and CEO of InterFlight Global Corp., is scheduled to address market potential and obstacles to supersonic business aircraft at the SpeedNews annual Business and General Aviation Industry Suppliers Conference, Oct. 4-5 , in Los Angeles.
Business Aviation

By Fred George
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.
Business Aviation

By William Garvey, Jessica A. Salerno, Molly McMillin
Lufthansa Technik has introduced a laser-based system for use when equipping VIP aircraft cabins in the framework of its research and innovation projects.
Business Aviation

By William Garvey, Jessica A. Salerno, Molly McMillin
Gulfstream likely will achieve its goal of keeping earnings flat in 2016 with 2015, and 2017 earnings could be near flat as well, Jefferies analyst Howard Rubel says.
Business Aviation

By William Garvey, Jessica A. Salerno, Molly McMillin
Astronautics Corp. of America is planning to build a first-of-its-kind, cockpit-based cybersecurity research laboratory at its Milwaukee facility.
Business Aviation

By William Garvey, Jessica A. Salerno, Molly McMillin
Despite some storms at midweek, the Experimental Aircraft Association's (EAA) AirVenture, held July 24-30, drew more attendees, exhibitors and show planes than last year, prompting CEO and Chairman Jack Pelton to declare it a magical week.
Business Aviation

By James Albright
With each new generation of aircraft, we are treated to levels of automation unparalleled in performance and reliability.
Connected Aerospace

By William Garvey, Jessica A. Salerno, Molly McMillin
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.
Business Aviation

By William Garvey
Dean Rush, pastor and executive director, of faith breakthroughs, Kingsland Baptist Church, Katy, Texas.
Business Aviation

By David Esler
While the advantages of ADS-C/CPDLC (or FANS 1/A) are legion, the datalink component is not without its pitfalls that can confuse the inattentive flight crew or one grown complacent due to the automation that characterizes the system.
Connected Aerospace

By Fred George
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.
Business Aviation

By William Garvey, Jessica A. Salerno, Molly McMillin
Desert Jet Center, based at Jacqueline Cochran Regional Airport in Riverside County, California, has opened its FBO.
Business Aviation

By William Garvey, Jessica A. Salerno, Molly McMillin
Alexandre Couvelaire, former owner of Mooney and creator of the TBM700, believes the electrically powered Sun Flyer, being developed by Aero Electric Aircraft Corp. in concert with Denver's Bye Aerospace, is emblematic of next-generation basic general aviation training aircraft and has backed up that by signing for three.
Business Aviation

By William Garvey, Jessica A. Salerno, Molly McMillin
The Philippines Civil Aviation Authority has given approval to Jet Aviation to support Falcon 900-series aircraft registered there at the company's maintenance, refurbishment and overhaul facility in Basel, Switzerland.
Business Aviation

By William Garvey, Jessica A. Salerno, Molly McMillin
The number of U.S.-registered business turbine-aircraft accidents fell by five during the first six months of 2016, although fatalities were up by four, according to data from Robert E. Breiling Associates.
Business Aviation

By William Garvey, Jessica A. Salerno, Molly McMillin
Market research provider ReportsnReports.com forecasts the global aviation fuel market to grow at a compound annual rate of 3.13% through 2020.
Business Aviation

BCA breaks down mission costs — direct costs, fuel expenses and per-mile costs — as well as flight times for heavy jets built by Dassault, Embraer, Bombardier, Gulfstream and Airbus.
Business Aviation