Business & Commercial Aviation

Elliott Aviation has retrofitted HomeSafe autoland systems on Daher TBM 940 turboprops delivered in the U.S. from 2019-20, before the Garmin-based autoland system was certified on the aircraft.

Very few pilots are following their own SOPs and are not going around from unstable approaches.

Learning the wrong lessons in the simulator sets you up to fail in the real world.

Circling is an unnecessary evil made worse by the way we train and check.

With decades of experience working out of the world’s most hostile environments, Harding Bush, a former U.S. Navy Seal and the current security operations manager at Global Rescue, provides insight on how to obtain peace of mind under high-stress circumstances.

German business aviation group DC Aviation on July 27 held a ceremonial opening of its new hangar at Oberpfaffenhofen Airport (EDMO) west of Munich.

Celebrating its fourth anniversary in business, Planet 9, a private jet management company and Part 135 charter operator based in Van Nuys, California, has shown how rapidly private air travel has been growing.

The hazard of taking off into an indefinite or low ceiling is underestimated by many pilots.

Maintain high but safe personal minimums or get rigorous initial and recurrent training in low-visibility instrument flight.

U.S. lawmakers lambasted the FAA as well as the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and industry July 28 for the nation’s plodding progress toward removing lead from aviation fuel used in piston-engine aircraft, the largest remaining source of lead emissions into the air.

See how air traffic controllers handle the load as tiny Wittman Regional Airport becomes the world's busiest during EAA AirVenture.

AirVenture Team Shares Insights From World’s Most Attended Air ShowBCA editors Molly McMillin, Mike Lavitt and Matt Orloff are reporting from Oshkosh, Wisconsin, during EAA AirVenture, where nearly 5,000 aircraft are on the field, and roughly 600,000 are expected to attend. Join us as we discuss the largest issues facing general and business aviation today and what the future may hold. We’ll look at the complex issues of removing lead from all aviation fuel, the outlook for pilot jobs, the new Daher Kodiak 900, the One Week Wonder project and more.

Pilots need to ensure the data input is accurate and that the output is handled correctly.

Pilots need to arm themselves against navigation data errors. Here are some tips.

Pilots should know how to fly the aircraft if the automation fails.

The advisory committee’s right-of-way solution facilitates innovation that accommodates all users of the airspace. The FAA, with support from Congress, should work to implement it as quickly as possible.

The business aircraft repainting market is experiencing shifting winds.

Advanced air mobility developer Beta Technologies has secured a 75-year lease at Burlington International Airport (BTV) in Vermont to build a 355,000-ft.² electric aircraft production facility.

Air traffic controllers need pilots to follow ATC instructions closely. But the FAA's massive Aeronautical Information Manual, pilots written link to good communications, offers just eight pages of pilot/controller lingo.

Cirrus Aircraft claims to have created its own market with the SF50 Vision Jet

Tire failures can cause serious secondary damage and could lead to fire.

Where are business aviation travelers headed? Paris-Le Bourget Airport in France received the most searches by AC-U-KWIK customers in June.

Should a takeoff be continued or rejected after a suspected tire failure?

You only get one chance to make a good first impression.

The good news is that, in general, the average rate increases through the first quarter of 2022 have been lower than the levels experienced in 2020 through mid-2021.