Safety, Ops & Regulation

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:

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

News of business aviation promotions, appointments and honors.

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.

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

Textron Aviation avoided a strike by its hourly workforce when members of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers accepted

Textron Aviation has received FAA type certification for its newest flagship twin-turboprop Beechcraft King Air 360/360ER aircraft.

Airshare wins International Standard for Business Aircraft Operations Stage 3 Certification from the International Business Aviation Council..

IATA is now forecasting a slower-than-expected recovery of air travel for this year and into 2021,

Aviation startup ZeroAvia completes the first flight of its hydrogen-fuel-cell-powered Piper M350 test aircraft.

Wheels Up has formed Wheels Up Aircraft Management, which was created after its integration of recent acquisitions Delta Private Jets and Gama Aviation Signature,

Flight services provider DroneUp has announced a pilot program with Walmart and Quest Diagnostics to deliver COVID-19 test sample collection kits by drone.

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.

High-octane fuel is a threat to 230,000 lightplanes and helicopters.

UK transport secretary Grant Shapps has said uncertainty still remains over the future legal framework for UK-EU flights, as the UK nears the end of its Brexit transition period.

Actor and pilot Harrison Ford has become a spokesperson for Airlink, a Washington DC-based rapid response relief nonprofit organization responding to the COVID-19 pandemic.