Safety, Ops & Regulation

As Russia’s invasion of Ukraine continues and millions flee their homes, members of the business aviation industry around the world are privately and publicly lending support with their aircraft, services and funds.

Lilium's chief operating officer explained to Aviation Week why certification of its Lilium Jet had slipped.

More human factors lessons learned on the Matterhorn.

The European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) has released design guidance for vertiports serving future urban air mobility (UAM) aircraft.

The FAA appointed Billy Nolen, leader of the agency’s aviation safety unit, as its next acting administrator, taking over after the departure of current Administrator Steve Dickson at the end of March.

Inmarsat has named a third equipment supplier for its Jet ConneX inflight broadband service for business aviation.

Slodowitz founded Craft Charter in 2020, after graduating from USC’s Marshall School of Business.

Can we create an effective, low-risk learning medium to enhance the training of important human factors?

After an extensive report, the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) has determined the FAA must improve its efforts to address community concerns pertaining to aircraft noise.

Despite the bureaucratic hydra, the U.S. is likely to have a lead-free atmosphere years before 2030.

A handful of unions representing tens of thousands of U.S.-based aviation workers called on the U.S. Transportation Department to deny Wizz Air’s request for a foreign air carrier permit over allegations of an “anti-union” corporate culture.

Hackers can deny users service and encrypt ransomware or spyware on a computer, flood a computer or network so it cannot respond, gain access to a user’s data or insert themselves into a two-party transaction, gaining access to unencrypted content.

Not surprisingly, most North Atlantic flight procedures haven’t changed, which represents some good news. The bad news is that there are issues that have not disappeared.

Moving quickly will enhance safety and enable the U.S. to unlock the future of aviation.

Some aspects of the operational use of business jet tires can lessen their overall life. Daily pressure checks are difficult to perform when an

The FAA and tire manufacturers recommend checking that a tire’s pressure is within limits before the first flight of each day.

The U.S. Commerce Department has singled out Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich’s Gulfstream G650ER business jet and 99 airliners for apparently violating export controls the department imposed following Russia’s Feb. 24 invasion of Ukraine.

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is resulting in the jamming of satellite navigation systems that could affect civil aviation in the surrounding region, EASA has warned.

After the ongoing impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic and the new issues raised by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the UK’s withdrawal from the European Union might well feel like old news.

GPS jamming by the U.S. military has the potential to cause serious disruptions among civil aviation operations where GPS signals will become unreliable or even unusable for navigation, experts note.

A post published by UK NATS announced structural changes to the North Atlantic (NAT) Organized Track System (OTS). Though the change may seem small, the eventual impact could be significant.

A city police department that was an early adopter of using drones for law enforcement purposes in the U.S. recently surpassed 10,000 missions.

Unprecedented sanctions on Russia following Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine are affecting every aspect of business aviation around the globe. What does it mean and what is to come?

On March 21, 2018 a Gulfstream GV descending to land at Miami International Airport (MIA) encountered turbulence and three of the five passengers were

A Bombardier Global Express linked to a Russian oligarch has been impounded by the UK government under new laws that came into force on March 8.