Safety, Ops & Regulation

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.

Work on resolving an FAA airworthiness directive (AD) that imposes operating restrictions on its G500 and G600 business jets has delayed certification of the new Gulfstream G700 into next year, parent company General Dynamics confirmed July 27.

Gogo Business Aviation says it is halfway toward completing the 150-tower ground infrastructure of its nationwide 5G air-to-ground (ATG) network.

The advisory committee’s right-of-way solution facilitates innovation that accommodates all users of the airspace. The FAA, with support from Congress, should work to implement it as quickly as possible.

The Hague-based Court will begin accepting requests for arbitration in August.

Air traffic controllers need pilots to follow ATC instructions closely. But the FAA's massive Aeronautical Information Manual, pilots written link to good communications, offers just eight pages of pilot/controller lingo.

Tire failures can cause serious secondary damage and could lead to fire.

Should a takeoff be continued or rejected after a suspected tire failure?

The application will allow Joby’s U.S.-based certification to be concurrently validated by the UK’s Civil Aviation Authority, accelerating access to the British market.