An FAR Part 91 personal flight was departing Chamberlain Municipal Airport (K9V9) in Chamberlain, South Dakota, when the pilot immediately lost control of the P
XO, a global private jet travel provider based in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, has been investing in artificial intelligence (AI) to maximize its process and practices to make transportation more accessible to a larger group of customers.
In the charter world, crews know that the customer paid a princely sum for the privilege of a private flight—and these customers may want to celebrate to excess.
Three pilots in recent cases were all high-time pilots, and they all died in accidents. The circumstances and contributing factors of the cases differed, but the issue common to all was that each pilot’s high experience was not enough to forestall the accident.
A medevac Beech King Air 200, registration N547LM, attempted to take off with a tailwind that exceeded what the pilot expected, and it wound up in the frigid waters of Unalaska Bay.
Senior management at two major general aviation companies recently confided in me that they are suffering inordinate delays on certification projects due in part to a post-MAX over-reaction within the FAA.
Consolidation has amplified the age-old supply/demand dilemma that affects any market undergoing a rate of expansion that cannot be easily met by creating new capacity, and some smaller players in business aviation are feeling the pinch.
