FlightSafety International has introduced simulator-based upset training on a Gulfstream 550 simulator at its Savannah, Georgia, training center that allows pilots to safely practice maneuvers outside of an aircraft's normal flight envelope.
Simulator training is essential, but it alone simply isn’t sufficient to provide flight crews with all the skills and knowledge needed to assure the highest safety margins.
Selling a used jet “As Is, Where Is, With All Faults” is an age-old practice. It is the plain English version of caveat emptor: Let the buyer beware. The tradition in aviation is that the seller allows the buyer to inspect the airplane prior to purchase. The buyer pays for the inspection. The seller pays to repair the airworthiness discrepancies found. The shop “returns the aircraft to service” and the buyer flies it home.
Six months after opening its Johannesburg office Vertis Aviation has added a fourth aircraft to its Africa based portfolio. The latest addition to the fleet is based in Johannesburg, and registered on the Fortune Air (PTY) Ltd AOC.
New Boston-based carrier OneJet is taking a unique approach to filling holes in service at former hub cities, using mass distribution channels to fill seats on seven-seat Hawker 400 jets.
Against a background of growing concern over “rogue” unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) near airports and in other sensitive areas, NASA has conducted a dress rehearsal for the upcoming demonstration of the first version of an airspace system designed to enable safe UAS operations at low altitudes.
What if commercial pilots never had to learn to fly IFR? The distinction between instrument flight rules and visual flight rules (VFR) may go away in the not-too-distant future. What if the Black Hawk successor offered military pilots a 360-degree, all-weather view on a touch screen that could easily be reconfigured? These are the sort of things we might see in next-gen cockpits. Join Aviation Week editors Jim Asker, John Croft and Graham Warwick in peering into the future.
Teterboro Airport in Teterboro, N.J., was the most popular business aviation airport in July 2015, according to an analysis of acukwik.com flight planning traffic. Paris Le Bourget Airport in France placed second.
Teterboro Airport in Teterboro, N.J., was the most researched business aviation airport in North America during July 2015, according to an analysis of acukwik.com flight planning activity. All of the top five most popular North American airports for the month were in the United States.
In our business of flying, “The Perfect” is very much still the enemy of “The Good,” especially when it comes to attaining dependable, economically feasible and broadly available all-weather operations equipage.
Moscow's Vnukovo Airport was the most popular departure and arrival airport for charter travel in July 2015, according to an analysis of Air Charter Guide Worldwide Trip Builder searches executed during that month. Pamplona/Noain Airport in Spain was the second most queried destination during July. Teterboro Airport ranked behind Vnukovo on both the departure and arrival lists.
Air Traffic and Navigation Services (ATNS) has responded with, what is described as “concern and dismay' to reports and allegations about “a nationwide ATNS radar systems failure”, following the fatal crash of a Namibian air ambulance on Sunday.
Want to get airborne to avoid congestion? Or land and drive to get through bad weather? Or just have fun in the air and on the road? There are several options on the horizon.
Marginal weather costs airlines billions of dollars related to ceiling and visibility issues; now rules and guidance systems on the horizon could greatly reduce that amount
The deadline to comply with the FAA’s NextGen mandate to move beyond 2020 will not move, the FAA administrator says. And pilots have reported seeing unmanned aircraft more than 650 times so far this year, the FAA says. Plus, a federal report cites a faulty carburetor that led to the loss of engine power as the probable cause of the crash of Harrison Ford’s vintage aircraft. Finally, Cessna Aircraft’s Citation M2 business jet has received certification to operate at high-elevation airports.
Business aviation is operating at 83% of the sector’s peak levels of 2008, according to Jet Support Services, Inc., which tracks business aircraft flight hours. Flight hours in the second quarter grew 2.9% from a year ago. Q1 2008 marked the decade’s highest activity rate, JSSI said. In the second quarter of this year, monthly usage totaled 27.75 hr. per aircraft, down from the 2008 peak of 33.45 hr., but up notably from the first quarter of this year.
LONDON – Reduced activity in the oil and gas industry caused by a fall in energy prices is continuing to weigh heavily on helicopter operators that support energy companies. International operators such as Bristow Group and CHC have cut flying rates and laid off pilots as their clients halt exploration work and reduce the numbers of people required to work offshore.
Honeywell Aerospace has received FAA aftermarket certification for a Future Air Navigation Systems, or FANS, for Falcon 900 and 900B aircraft. It will allow operators to retrofit compliant technology into existing hardware instead of upgrading cockpit systems completely, and make meeting the FAA’s Equip 2020 mandate more cost-effective, Honeywell said. Honeywell is also planning on an aftermarket certification for other legacy aircraft for the FANS mandate.
Embraer Executive Jets delivered its first Legacy 500 midsize jet to a customer in Mexico. The aircraft will be operated by Transpais Aereo, a subsidiary of the Lomex Group Aeronautics Division. The Legacy 500 received type certification from Mexico’s Civil Aviation Safety Authority in June.
Pentastar Aviation has added 11 aircraft to its aircraft management fleet in the past 10 months, the Waterford, Michigan-based company said. Pentastar has added three Hawker 400s, a Hawker 850, a Citation Sovereign, a Falcon 2000LXS, a Gulfstream GIV, three Gulfstream GVs and an MD-81. Improvements in the economy are allowing more companies to use business aviation, the company said.
FlightSafety International has selected Aeroglobo to provide Pratt & Whitney Canada Engine training in Brazil, the company said. Training will be offered at Aeroglobo’s facility in Botucatu, Brazil, for P&WC PT6T, PT6A, PT6B, PW100-Series, PW200-Series and PW500 engines. The facility will be equipped with training engines and FlightSafety’s Graphical FlightDeck and desktop simulators, and instructors will provide classroom and hands-on instruction.
