Safety, Ops & Regulation

A series of fatal accidents involving agricultural aircraft in July and August has attracted FAA attention and served as a grim reminder of the dangers of low-l

What if you voluntarily retake the FAA written test for your current certificate, achieve a 90% pass rate, and submit the test result form to your

Compartmentalizing what you do in flight allows you to focus on what keeps you safe In previous articles, we’ve looked at the importance of placing

New technologies will help the flight deck to understand a pilot’s cognitive engagement.

The pilot of a Cessna 560 Citation V that crashed near Warm Springs, Oregon, on Jan. 9, 2021 became incapacitated for reasons that could not be determined, the

An EMB-145 lands off the runway at Presque Isle, Maine. A crew had reported the localizer discrepancy to the Center after landing at KPQI on March 2, two days before the accident

An EMB-145 lands off the runway at Presque Isle, Maine. The story shows how even minor oversights by people in safety supporting roles can be significant.

A whole slew of people could have prevented this accident if they had been more safety conscious and more proactive.

The relatively new and legitimized multi-billion-dollar cannabis industry has brought in a wave of consumers who otherwise may not have participated much had it remained fully illegal. Some of these new, interested consumers may well be pilots. Here are answers to some confusing questions regarding their use as it relates to piloting an aircraft.

The biggest advantage to this stabilized approach method is that it more realistically tracks pilot expectations and is therefore more credible.

If the company can navigate the island nation’s stringent regulatory environments, other cities in Asia may follow.

Business aviation associations hailed U.S. Senate passage of legislation containing a sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) blenders tax credit that is not universally welcomed across the fuel industry.

Denver International’s altitude continues to create problems for aircraft collision-avoidance systems, the FAA said in a recent safety alert.

More reasons why pilots fail to follow Standard Operating Procedures for unstable approaches.

Very few pilots are following their own SOPs and are not going around from unstable approaches.

Learning the wrong lessons in the simulator sets you up to fail in the real world.

Circling is an unnecessary evil made worse by the way we train and check.

With decades of experience working out of the world’s most hostile environments, Harding Bush, a former U.S. Navy Seal and the current security operations manager at Global Rescue, provides insight on how to obtain peace of mind under high-stress circumstances.

Celebrating its fourth anniversary in business, Planet 9, a private jet management company and Part 135 charter operator based in Van Nuys, California, has shown how rapidly private air travel has been growing.

The hazard of taking off into an indefinite or low ceiling is underestimated by many pilots.

Maintain high but safe personal minimums or get rigorous initial and recurrent training in low-visibility instrument flight.

U.S. lawmakers lambasted the FAA as well as the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and industry July 28 for the nation’s plodding progress toward removing lead from aviation fuel used in piston-engine aircraft, the largest remaining source of lead emissions into the air.

Partnered with six of biggest names in advanced air mobility, helicopter operator Bristow Group wants to be an early AAM adopter.

See how air traffic controllers handle the load as tiny Wittman Regional Airport becomes the world's busiest during EAA AirVenture.

The NTSB expected that an investigator would arrive on scene July 27 to determine the cause of a midair collision one day earlier in East Portland, Arkansas, involving Air Tractor AT-802A and AT-802 agricultural airplanes.