Safety, Ops & Regulation

The FAA on Nov. 23 released proposed airworthiness criteria for four small unmanned aircraft systems, bringing to 10 the number of drones that are positioned to earn design approvals from the agency.

The FAA on Nov. 20 released for comment proposed airworthiness standards for six small unmanned aircraft systems as a step toward issuing its first-ever regulatory certifications of drone designs.

The FAA next year will begin using live telemetry data from commercial space vehicles to determine the extent of airspace it needs to protect during launch and re-entry operations.

More than 300 employees working at FAA air traffic control (ATC) facilities have contracted COVID-19 since the first positive cases were detected at Chicago Midway International Airport in March, the agency’s top ATC executive said Nov. 17.

When winter arrives, as it soon will in the Northern Hemisphere and where it can linger, aviators need to become hyper alert for conditions that invite ice formation aloft.

When the wing becomes coated with ice, the airfoil is changed. In other words, the pilot can wind up flying Wing B while trying to use the familiar engineering parameters of Wing A as it came from the factory.

While a replacement pilot may be qualified according to FAR Part 61.55, he/she may not actually be ready to serve as an effective crewmember.

The aircraft management business has been flooded with dozens of new entrants in recent years, many promising lower costs for a full range of support services. However, bargain price, full-service aircraft management is fiction.

Part 135 needs enforceable, science-based rest and duty regulations.

Aviation has been in the sights of environmental activists for some time and particularly in Europe, where aviation has become a target for “shaming” as a source of atmospheric pollution.

The U.S. Transportation Command wanted scientific answers regarding the infection risk posed by aircraft cabins.

AOPA is working with Save Dillingham Airfield Group, an organization pushing to keep open Dillingham Airfield on the north shore of Oahu in Hawaii.

Vanderbilt LifeFlight recently was named the Air Medical Program of the Year by the Association of Air Medical Services.

The North American charter jet services market is projected to record a compound annual growth rate of 3% per year from 2020 through 2025,

Pyka believes it an accelerate fielding of two of the hottest technologies in aviation: autonomy and electric propulsion.

The AOPA Air Safety Institute notes a continued decrease in overall accident rates for noncommercial and commercial fixed-wing operations, noncommercial and commercial helicopter operations, and sport/experimental operations.

Transport Canada has granted geomatics company MVT Geo-solutions permission to fly drones beyond visual line of sight (BVLOS) of an operator, to

Bill Boisture, the former president and/or CEO of Hawker Beechcraft, Gulfstream, NetJets and Butler Aviation, has joined the executive team of Spike Aerospace.

The FAA has issued an airworthiness directive requiring repetitive inspections of 14,653 U.S. registered single-engine Cessna 172, 182, 206, 207 and

The CEO of Italy’s Leonardo has been sentenced to six years in prison for crimes committed in a previous role. Alessandro Profumo was recently found

A Cessna 337 Skymaster whose forward gas engine was swapped out with an electric motor, completed a 297-nm flight from Camarillo to Hayward

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.