Safety, Ops & Regulation

December 25, 2019 — About 1713 CST, a single-engine, turbine-powered Bell 407 (N663SF) was substantially damaged when it crashed while attempting to

Pilots like to tell stories about things that happened as a way of entertaining friends, showing bravery and, perhaps, helping fellow pilots to avoid similar situations.

A corporate aircraft use policy sets forth the who, when, where and why to send your people in your aircraft.

Travelers have a lot of misconceptions about aviation in general and specifically how pilots do their jobs.

Deeply disturbed by the MH17 incident and the previous silence about the danger, Mark Zee began to consider “a mechanism to share information.”

Fractional ownership company NetJets has launched a subsidiary offering an international network of safety experts to provide travel security and personal protection to high-profile travelers.

The FAA has sent a letter to Blackbird Air, which created a web-based application to connect passengers with pilots, emphasizing the agency’s regulations regarding pilots who transport paying passengers.

The National Air Transportation Association's Loss of License Insurance Program now has more than 1,000 pilots enrolled.

The U.S. Senate has confirmed Michael Graham and Thomas Chapman to serve on the NTSB.

Autonomous urban air mobility vehicles with centralized command and control will increase safety, Chinese air-taxi developer EHang says in a new white paper.

The FAA’s certification process is not fundamentally flawed and “was followed” during the Boeing 737 MAX certification, but shortcomings in key guidance, global perspective, safety assessments, and agency staffing should be addressed to improve the system, an independent committee’s report found.

Lessons from manned aviation and new technologies can help build a road map to ensure safe operation of unmanned aircraft.

The European Commission extended the provisional deadline for its in-depth review of the proposed commercial joint venture (JV) between Boeing and Embraer until Apr. 30, further delaying its potential approval for the deal, most recently seen to be closing at the end of the first quarter.

Text communications between controllers and pilots are required throughout North Atlantic airspace and over Europe.

Spirit AeroSystems, the leading aerostructures provider and Boeing’s top supplier, announced Jan. 10 it is laying off 2,800 of its employees in Wichita, Kansas.

Tamarack Aerospace Group has received approval from the U.S. Bankruptcy Court of the Eastern District of Washington for its plan to pay back all debtors as it emerges from Chapter 11 bankruptcy.

Some Textron Aviation employees in Wichita began reporting back to work on Jan. 6 following an explosion last month.

The explosion that rocked Textron Aviation’s Plant 3 in Wichita last week appears not to have harmed the company’s Cessna 408 SkyCourier turboprop program.

Business aviation stakeholders say they support congressional legislation that includes provisions “aimed squarely at promoting the development and use of sustainable aviation fuels,” the National Business Aviation Association said.

Tourism represents about 60% of the Bahamian economy.

It is a myth that Hurricane Dorian decimated the entire Bahamian archipelago.

Without a professional flight attendant aboard, and in the absence of formal emergency procedures training, most business jet travelers are ill-prepared for contingencies,

The NTSB investigates, but does not require or enforce actions.

Yes, there’s a winter tourist season, but in the island chain’s south In late August 2019, meteorologists were monitoring a tropical wave of

Despite the January 2020 cover date on our printed magazine, the truth is that most of the material within appears on our website throughout December