Safety, Ops & Regulation

Unpaved runways redefine the concept of “Use At Own Risk.”

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.

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.

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.

The Oshkosh Notice provides arrival/departure procedures, radio frequencies, airport details and other information for pilots flying to EAA AirVenture.

The new sanctions package approved by the European Union on June 24 for the first time specifically targets Russia’s business aviation sector.

Equinor’s investigation is independent of one currently underway by the state’s safety body, the Norwegian Safety Investigation Agency.

Highlights of this edition, including the Operations Planning Guide.

Congress includes pilot duty time, aircraft registry backlog, AAM and more in the act.

Having a smokestack on the runway centerline was problematic, but could an SMS program have helped prevent an accident?

The FAA is making revolutionary changes in its approach to mental healthcare.

This year’s Operations Planning Guide covers turbine-powered, in-production aircraft.

Asia-Pacific-based turboprop operators have been told to review their practices after safety data revealed higher-than-average incident rates in the region.

The drone program includes using Parrot Anafi quadcopters and the delivery of a new Airbus H125 single-engine light helicopter.

When they fly near war zones, civil aircraft may be the collateral victim of the GPS jamming that targets military operations.

Organizations representing business aviation hailed the formation of a bipartisan “sustainable aviation” caucus in the U.S. Congress.

A conversation with a customer in 2012 gave Web Manuals Founder and CEO Martin Lidgard unexpected food for thought.

Flights that do not meet the standard of a qualified business use could make an aircraft ineligible for bonus depreciation.

In the final part of this article, we summarize recommendations from authoritative sources to prepare for encounters with wake turbulence.

Avoiding an encounter with high-altitude wake turbulence relies on accurately predicting its location and strength.

According to Volker Lemke, operating aircraft and finding sufficient flight and medical crews are the easy parts of running an air-ambulance business.

The mix of air traffic, high speeds and characteristics of the upper atmosphere are factors in high-altitude wake turbulence encounters.

On a recent sunny Tuesday afternoon in Texas, the pilot of a Boeing 757 lined up to land at the airport in Tyler, Texas.

The NTSB is urging the FAA to “evaluate the effectiveness of the activation logic for the runway status light system” and, if necessary, update its logic.

AeroGuard Flight Training Center has suspended solo flight training for Cathay Pacific cadets after a series of incidents that resulted in damage to aircraft.