Safety, Ops & Regulation

The Belarus air piracy incident sets a dangerous precedent for both commercial and business aviation.

Textron Aviation’s Citation Longitude super-midsize business jet has earned European Union Aviation Safety Agency certification.

The FAA issued a second emergency airworthiness directive this week that requires operators of additional models of Bell helicopters to inspect their main-rotor hubs for potentially faulty hub strap pins.

Emergency airworthiness directives (AD) have been issued requiring main-rotor hub inspections of certain Bell helicopters following the fatal crash of a Bell 212 last month in Canada.

The sun and heat affect landing distance needed, tire performance, cockpit temperature.

Hot temperatures place increased strain on the capabilities of our aircraft.

Crew resource management considerations.

Is the SMS notebook idea valid? It’s time to confirm.

Make piloting decisions for the right reasons.

The five-year contract maintains Raytheon’s position as the systems integrator for STARS, which receives surveillance and flight-plan data and presents the information to controllers on high-resolution, color displays.

Paying attention to your pilot philosophy, as well as methodology, will make you a better pilot.

Consider being open minded, as well as a skeptic.

We will always be students, so we might as well learn to be better students.

EAA’s AirVenture Oshkosh returns next month following the cancellation of the 2020 show because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

IATA and the World Health Organization (WHO) are concerned that Africa could be left behind in the reopening of international air travel, with only 1% of Africans currently immunized against the coronavirus.

While the accident investigation of two aircraft in Ketchikan, Alaska points to the causes, it also highlights unsettling evidence.

Floatplanes collide near Ketchikan, despite extra voluntary safety practices in area.

The subject of reaction times can be as confusing as V-speeds, but for different reasons. Instead of too little definition, we have too much.

Textron Aviation has received European Union Aviation Safety Agency approval for its Cessna Citation CJ4 Gen2 light jet, paving the way for delivery to its first European customer for the upgraded aircraft, DALaviation Switzerland.

The lengthy process of the UK extricating itself from the European Union reaches another milestone on June 25, when the country’s participation in the EGNOS program ends.

Canada’s government will open its borders to vaccinated citizens and certain other eligible travelers starting July 5 but has not moved off quarantine requirements for foreign travelers or a broad recommendation against non-essential travel.

V1 is not a decision speed. It is an action speed.

The majority of high-level corporate executives who responded to an online survey said they expect to conduct more in-person meetings in the future than they typically did before the COVID-19 pandemic, according to private-aviation fleet operator VistaJet.

In a U.S. Air Force spin prevention maneuver, the point to be learned was that the wing was “flying.”

Recovery from a stall is a split-second action.