Safety, Ops & Regulation

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.

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

There are two competing thoughts about the wisdom of keeping qualified in two aircraft types.

Pilot in fatal crash had been cited for multiple license violations for almost 30 years.

Pilots' decision to continue an approach on autopilot when the circumstances were confusing and the situation was deteriorating rapidly could have ended tragically.

“Why didn’t those guys just disconnect the autopilot?”

Selected accidents and incidents in November 2019. The following NTSB information is preliminary.

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

WASHINGTON – The U.S. FAA has pledged to release a draft rule prescribing a means to identify drones from the ground by the end of December. After

President Donald Trump is poised to sign into law a spending package that will send $17.6 billion to the FAA for fiscal 2020 and reauthorize the U.S. Export-Import Bank for seven years.

Most business and general aviation and commercial operators who fly in ADS-B Out airspace plan to meet the FAA’s Jan. 1, 2020 deadline.

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

A former FAA aviation safety inspector has been sentenced by the U.S. District Court in Miami to more than six years in prison for bribery and fraud.

The FAA has a long-standing clear policy on whether a pilot may consume marijuana.