Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Thierry Dubois
Onera is providing a new testbed able to evaluate a composites panel when exposed to fire in an engine environment, as well as assess new extinguishing agents.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By William Garvey
With the right equipment, anyone can receive and process ADS-B data. And they do.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Bill Carey
The FAA expects that airspace constraints caused by air traffic control staffing and technical issues in the U.S. Northeast will ease in June.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Graham Warwick
Rain and Sikorsky demonstrate initial attack on wildfire ignition sources using autonomy-enabled helicopter.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Thierry Dubois
European airspace design was inherited from the progressive construction of air traffic management on a multinational continent, leading to fragmentation.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Thierry Dubois
CANSO has introduced the Complete Air Traffic System (CATS) concept of operations, a 2045 blueprint for air traffic management.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Thierry Dubois
Eurocontrol is including meteorology experts in the Network Manager Operations Center teams, as weather in Europe has caused an increasing share of delays.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

Sharon B. DeVivo
Consistent and sufficient funding, improved training and local and regional solutions could make the U.S. ATC system a model for the world once again.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Sean Broderick
The FAA’s hiring goals target adding about 9,000 new controllers through 2028, or 2,250 per year; the agency has 3,100 trainees “in the pipeline.”
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Sean Broderick
Telecommunications infrastructure changes designed to reduce the risk of ATC system outages at Newark Airport will be in place “this summer,” FAA said.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Molly McMillin
The African Business Aviation Association has elected Dawit Lemma as chair of the organization and Craig Middleton as its vice chair and treasurer.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Christine Boynton, Sean Broderick, Bill Carey
Aviation Week editors break down the current state of the U.S. air traffic control system and analyze what it will take to push modernization forward.
Check 6

By Jeremy Kariuki
A new FAA policy allows business aviation owners and operators to hide personally identifiable information from the FAA’s Aircraft Registry.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Guy Norris
A new bill supported by Boom aims to change U.S. legislation and permit supersonic over land flight above Mach 1, provided no sonic boom reaches ground.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Bill Carey
The USDA will continue to exempt small carriers from the cost of inspecting aircraft arriving in the U.S. for agricultural pests and diseases.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Thierry Dubois
Thales is implementing its Green Flag Orchestrator tool at area control centers (ACC).
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Lee Ann Shay
Gulfstream Aerospace developed a family of five next-generation jets with a lot of commonality. It only has one more to certify now that the G800 is certified.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Kent Jackson
Flight following has grown popular, but not with private aviation aircraft owners and operators. FAA now offers ways to keep the aircraft information private.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Fred George
Satellite navigation’s vulnerability to jamming and spoofing is not new.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Angus Batey
Germany’s FAI is both an air ambulance provider and logistics company.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Patrick Veillette, Ph.D.
Four more HondaJets have suffered runway excursions within seven-weeks. What lessons can business aviation learn from these?
Safety, Ops & Regulation

Joel Thomas
In recent years, a quiet shift in cancellation policies has begun to challenge the flexibility that private charters offer, often catching travelers off guard.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Angus Batey
How business aviation is implementing AI and concerns about safeguarding security.
Maintenance & Training

By Karen Walker
A plan to address ATC system outages at Newark (EWR) will almost certainly reduce the number of flights in and out of the busy New Jersey/New York area airport.
Airports & Networks

By Bill Carey
U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy's new ATC infrastructure upgrade depends on immediate funding from Congress to complete within its three-year timeline.
Safety, Ops & Regulation