Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Patrick Veillette, Ph.D.
It is important for pilots to thoroughly check NOTAMs before every flight, especially during election season.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Bill Carey
The NTSB offers further recommendations for Part 135 operators in a special investigation report.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Patrick Veillette, Ph.D.
The election season is fully underway in the United States. This will certainly impact business and general aviation.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Roger Cox
The Runway Condition Assessment Matrix is a fine tool for estimating braking effectiveness on landing, but it must be taken with a grain of salt.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Bill Carey
A Kansas-based aerial application fleet operator is the U.S. launch customer of the Pelican Spray agricultural drone, manufacturer Pyka announced on Aug. 8.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Helen Massy-Beresford
UK advertising watchdog ASA has upheld complaints that a radio ad relating to Virgin Atlantic’s much-publicized 100% SAF flight in November 2023 was misleading.
Airlines & Lessors

By Roger Cox
Data captured from the Phenom 300 runway excursion showed the flight differed from manufacturer’s assumptions.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Angus Batey
Facilitating the Hajj falls to a small number of flight-support companies.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Roger Cox
We analyze the runway excursion of an Embraer Phenom 300 at Elk River Airport in North Carolina.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Ross Detwiler
We can’t cover every potential for disaster, but we can try to hit most likely scenarios. It’s time for a simple “Approach In Icing Conditions” procedure.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Ross Detwiler
Negative training can occur whenever ideas or solutions are offered that can be misunderstood.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Sean Broderick
FAA and NATCA have agreed on new duty time provisions aimed at addressing air traffic controllers' fatigue-related concerns raised in an agency-sponsored report.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Molly McMillin
Two people were killed when their aircraft crashed two miles south of the Wittman Regional Airport in Oshkosh Wisconsin, where the EAA AirVenture event is held.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Molly McMillin
Boeing projects a global need for 674,000 pilots, 716,000 maintenance technicians and 980,000 cabin crew members over the next 20 years.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Bill Carey
Wipaire announced FAA STC approval of its new Yukon composite propeller for Cessna Caravans, a joint development with Hartzell Propeller.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Molly McMillin
The FAA has issued recommendations to mitigate the risks during mass aircraft demonstrations at aviation events.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Patrick Veillette, Ph.D.
A rock kicked up by the main gear becomes lodged between the elevator and the horizontal stabilizer, nearly causing a runway excursion.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Patrick Veillette, Ph.D.
The varying conditions of unpaved runways can present handling control challenges.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

Corporate aviation is marshaling its forces to fend off critics targeting business aircraft as an expense that companies beset by recessions and sales slumps can do without.
Business Aviation

By Patrick Veillette, Ph.D.
Unpaved runways redefine the concept of “Use At Own Risk.”
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Alan Dron
Airline pilots have reported a worsening of the GPS spoofing problem, as a new “hotspot” has appeared around the southern Russian port city of Novorossiysk.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Bill Carey
The NTSB is leading the investigation of the crash of an amphibious air tanker that killed a veteran agricultural aviation pilot and native of Brazil.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

Chris Marich & Letwan Sutton
The IRS is targeting large corporations, large partnerships, and high-income taxpayers to determine whether they are properly classifying business flights and passengers on corporate aircraft used for tax deductions.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

BCA Staff
The Oshkosh Notice provides arrival/departure procedures, radio frequencies, airport details and other information for pilots flying to EAA AirVenture.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

Aviation Week Network Staff
The new sanctions package approved by the European Union on June 24 for the first time specifically targets Russia’s business aviation sector.
Safety, Ops & Regulation