Safety, Ops & Regulation

The FAA needs to use additional noise metrics to assess the impact of implementing performance-based navigation (PBN) procedures at airports to avoid legal challenges and delays, the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) has recommended.

The FAA is set to begin widespread deployment of software that integrates data from several existing systems and calculates optimal pushback times to minimize delays between the gate and departure.

Pilots should also consider engine spool-up time and flight director guidance.

Despite top-down recommendations from the European Council, EU member states are managing their own travel rules in different ways which has created confusion.

Compliance with manufacturer's service bulletins may or may not be mandatory, but should never be ignored.

Environmental groups have renewed their call for the U.S. government to set a tougher rule for aircraft greenhouse-gas (GHG) emissions than the CO2 certification standard agreed by ICAO.

Reporting, investigating, communicating and training—and SMS systems for small operators.

The EBS system uses a 100-kW electric motor connected to the main gearbox which could provide up to 30 sec. of additional power in the event of an engine failure, allowing the pilot to make a safe auto-rotation landing.

The simplified safety management system implementation plan.

The Flight Safety Foundation (FSF) is leading an effort to quantify safety risks that the downturn’s operational interruptions have introduced into parts of the aviation system so industry can adjust long-term safety programs in response to the new issues.

Business aviation manufacturers are waiting for clarification to understand the impact President Joe Biden’s sweeping mandate requiring employees of companies with more than 100 workers to be vaccinated or produce weekly negative COVID tests may have on their companies.

Existing guidance and information on time of useful consciousness is inconsistent and misleading.

The Biden administration said foreigners will be able to enter the U.S. with proof of vaccination and a negative COVID-19 test beginning in November, marking a substantial loosening of entry restrictions put in place at the start of the pandemic.

The influences of ground effect.

It took more than a decade, but the General Aviation Modifications Inc. team found a solution.

The first part of this article series describes what led to the aircraft sliding off the runway into the river. The NTSB conducted a major accident

It was the night of May 3, 2019, and a hard rain was falling in Jacksonville, Florida. The rain was coming down so hard that the runway was slippery

The U.S. Transportation Department (DOT) has identified 313 aerospace businesses to be awarded $482.3 million in funding, with Spirit Aerosystems garnering the lion’s share at more than $70 million.

"The Crosscheck" column examines pilots' use of common and illicit drugs.

The RedTail Flight Academy celebrated the opening of a flight academy at New York Stewart International Airport and a partnership with Wheels Up, a private aviation provider, on Sept. 10.

Drone industry pioneer Brendan Schulman has left DJI for a position with Boston Dynamics.

Seven people were injured Sept. 9 when a Cape Air Cessna 402 left the runway and crashed into nearby woods while landing at Provincetown Municipal Airport (PVC)

Beta’s Alia eVTOL hews as close to a conventional fixed-wing aircraft as possible.

Beta’s cockpit philosophy carefully contains the unfamiliar within the familiar.

Germany’s Becker Avionics and drone detect-and-avoid system developer Iris Automation have entered into an agreement to jointly develop a collision avoidance system for general aviation aircraft.