Safety, Ops & Regulation

UK gains P-8 maritime patroller; L3Harris spacecraft clears design hurdle; IAI makes deals in India; Germany scraps UAV purchase plan.

The FAA has proposed amending its certification procedures so that it can issue design approvals for some unmanned aircraft systems as a “special class” of aircraft.

The FAA will introduce a new Space Data Integrator system in August to track space launch and recovery operations in real time with traditional air traffic, Administrator Steve Dickson said.

Despite the high-profile crash that killed basketball legend Kobe Bryant, the number of fatal U.S. helicopter accidents has decreased over the past two decades, but hit a plateau in 2018 and 2019.

Aircraft deliveries at Textron Aviation will be reduced in the first half of 2020 by the impact on composites manufacturing caused by the Dec. 27 explosion at the company’s Plant 3 facility in Wichita.

LOS ANGELES – Investigators have begun to probe the crash of a Sikorsky S-76 that killed former basketball player Kobe Bryant and eight others. The

Apache Aviation, a flying school based in Dijon, France, is enjoying brisk demand for its new advanced upset prevention and recovery training (UPRT) module, after EASA mandated such pilot instruction in December 2019.

The European Commission (EC) has again stopped the clock in the ongoing investigation of the proposed commercial aircraft joint venture between Boeing and Embraer, while key airlines and lessors now favor the transaction.

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.”

Ops Group summarizes its mission in five maxims.

Helicopter emergency medical service is an especially challenging mission when performed among mountains with their ever-present threats.

Rega responds to 30 avalanche rescues in an average year.

Rega working on a special drone project intended to collaborate with its rescue partners.

Swiss Air-Rescue called upon by other countries to help with natural-disaster response.

Two unfortunate landings in bad weather, partially caused by tardy procedures, could have been avoided altogether by going elsewhere.

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.

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.