Safety, Ops & Regulation

Fractional provider Flexjet continues to expand in Europe with the awarding of an Air Operator Certificate for Malta.

The risk factors are high and the safety margins are precariously thin at “mountain bowl” airports.

Bombardier 601 hard landing at Ox Ranch, Texas

Ops Group founder stresses assessing the Belarus threat from an objective point of view.

With the increase in private charter demand due to the post COVID travel surge, Part 135 pilots are flying longer days and piling on more flight hours

What to do if you get an aircraft escort.

Epic Aircraft has earned FAA certification for its Epic E1000 GX six-seat single-engine turboprop aircraft.

Evidence points in one direction…

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.