Safety, Ops & Regulation

Although FAA’s years-long search for a lead-free replacement to 100LL avgas has had no success as yet, Avfuel Chairman Craig Sincock believes one will be found.

TRAXXALL has launched TRAXXALL 360, a cloud-based maintenance tracking system that streamlines workflows with an intuitive user interface.

Five Questions For Walt Fricke, founder of Veterans Airlift Command.

“Legendary” is probably an overused word, but in the case of our transitioning editorial leadership at BCA, it is apropos.

The incoming administration of President-elect Joe Biden is unlikely to herald significant changes for business aviation, although the future of bonus depreciation for aircraft sales is in question, experts say.

In 2015, Robert DeLaurentis set out to circumnavigate the world in a Piper Malibu Mirage. He made it, but things did not go as planned.

Aireon on Nov. 12 announced an agreement with the FAA allowing the agency access to its satellite-routed aircraft surveillance data to evaluate different air traffic control applications.

Guy Gribble, whose aviation career spanned military and airline flying and international procedures training for business aviation, died Oct. 26 after a protracted battle with cancer.

The Democratic chairman of the U.S. House Transportation Committee narrowly won his bid for re-election, ensuring the key committee’s policy agenda remains on track for at least two more years.

The FAA is calling attention to risks that disinfection can have on aircraft interiors, urging operators and maintainers to heed manufacturers’ guidance and take extra steps to protect sensitive equipment, wiring, and other high-risk components.

Ongoing concern over the robustness of the GPS system in the U.S. undergirds development of alternative navigation systems for aviation.

The FAA on Oct. 30 unveiled a new “Beyond” program to replace the now-expired Unmanned Aircraft Systems Integration Pilot Program in advancing commercial drone applications.

The FAA has issued an updated request for information (RFI) to industry under the interagency Spectrum Efficient National Surveillance Radar (SENSR) program, seeking information on commercial products that could replace some legacy radar systems.

As pilots, we regard aircraft as technological marvels, but infectious disease specialists and epidemiologists see the growing mobility of people via air transport as amplifying the potential for rapid dissemination of disease.

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

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

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

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

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

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

“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

“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.”

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

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