Business & Commercial Aviation

As pilots, we regard aircraft as technological marvels, but infectious disease specialists and epidemiologists see the growing mobility of people via air transport as amplifying the potential for rapid dissemination of disease.

The BFU found that the cause of the incident was ATC issuing a clearance on the basis of inadequate situational awareness.

iI you know the aircraft is going to experience a cold soaking, remove the battery and store it in a warm place.

For many years, summer’s arrival for av junkies was signaled not so much by Memorial Day speeches, All-Star games or the season’s first surfside

In-Personal Preferred I really enjoyed “Being There” (Viewpoint, October 2020, page 7), and in transitioning the NBAA Business Aviation Convention and

The concept of thrust, power, and even horsepower can get messy, and perhaps a bit of a history lesson can start to clean things up.

Ground operations in the winter create a large number of threats that can cause serious damage to an aircraft.

Kent S. Jackson is founder and managing partner of Jetlaw LLC in Washington.

If the resulting landing distance or threat of running out of speed is too great, find another place to land.

Selected accidents and incidents in September 2020. The following NTSB information is preliminary.

The performance of the crew was completely routine, yet beautiful in its professionalism.

“ADS-B has built into it a figure of merit that tells you the performance of the GPS information imbedded in the ADS-B message.”

Pilot oxygen masks should be kept clean to reduce the danger of infection and to prolong their lives.

Business & Commercial Aviation News from November 1970

Since officially launching its satellite-borne ADS-B program in 2015, Aireon LLC, has signed 16 customers.

A number of documents specifically for the air transport industry address the prevention of disease transmission.

“In a normal year, which is to say, prior to March of this year,” Doug Dillon, Gander Center’s general manager, told BCA, “we were processing 550,000

News of business aviation promotions, appointments and honors.

The Gulfstream G450, built from 2003 to 2017, is the last of the legacy Gulfstream jets with roots to Grumman’s original Gulfstream I turboprop.

“If you meet the ADS-B mandate standards, our receivers can pick up the signals.”

In only its first year of service (March 2019 to March 2020), Aireon ADS-B has chalked up these service milestones:

On a private or business aircraft you have direct control over who will ride onboard, allowing you to screen passengers for illness.

Another benefit harvested from Aireon satellite-based ADS-B is data enabling the tracking of equipped aircraft for search-and-rescue purposes.

Gulfstream G500 operators live in a 500+ kt. world where few, if any, competitive aircraft can catch them.

It took eight launches over two years to put up 66 satellites plus six spares (with nine more stored on the ground), replacing the original Iridium constellation launched in the 1990s.