Safety, Ops & Regulation

In only its first year of service (March 2019 to March 2020), Aireon ADS-B has chalked up these service milestones:

Ground operations in the winter create a large number of threats that can cause serious damage to an aircraft.

Since officially launching its satellite-borne ADS-B program in 2015, Aireon LLC, has signed 16 customers.

iI you know the aircraft is going to experience a cold soaking, remove the battery and store it in a warm place.

News of business aviation promotions, appointments and honors.

A number of documents specifically for the air transport industry address the prevention of disease transmission.

For many years, summer’s arrival for av junkies was signaled not so much by Memorial Day speeches, All-Star games or the season’s first surfside

Pilot oxygen masks should be kept clean to reduce the danger of infection and to prolong their lives.

Kent S. Jackson is founder and managing partner of Jetlaw LLC in Washington.

On a private or business aircraft you have direct control over who will ride onboard, allowing you to screen passengers for illness.

In-Personal Preferred I really enjoyed “Being There” (Viewpoint, October 2020, page 7), and in transitioning the NBAA Business Aviation Convention and

It took eight launches over two years to put up 66 satellites plus six spares (with nine more stored on the ground), replacing the original Iridium constellation launched in the 1990s.

If the resulting landing distance or threat of running out of speed is too great, find another place to land.

“If you meet the ADS-B mandate standards, our receivers can pick up the signals.”

The concept of thrust, power, and even horsepower can get messy, and perhaps a bit of a history lesson can start to clean things up.

“In a normal year, which is to say, prior to March of this year,” Doug Dillon, Gander Center’s general manager, told BCA, “we were processing 550,000

The BFU found that the cause of the incident was ATC issuing a clearance on the basis of inadequate situational awareness.

“ADS-B has built into it a figure of merit that tells you the performance of the GPS information imbedded in the ADS-B message.”

Selected accidents and incidents in September 2020. The following NTSB information is preliminary.

Another benefit harvested from Aireon satellite-based ADS-B is data enabling the tracking of equipped aircraft for search-and-rescue purposes.

Vista Global has partnered with Ferrari to provide private jet transportation to all Ferrari drivers competing in the international GT races and Prancing Horse monobrand championships.

Business-aviation manufacturing veteran David Coleal has vacated his position as president of Bombardier Aviation following a senior management reorganization.

According to JetNet iQ Pulse, small-jet activity has remained the strongest in business-jet flight operations during the COVID-19 pandemic. From July

328 Support Services GmbH, a divi­sion of the Sierra Nevada Corp., has opened a simulator facility for the Dornier 328 turboprop.

The FAA has announced its policy for approving drone designs as a special class of aircraft.