Pia Bergqvist

The Trump administration presented its budget for fiscal year 2019 this week and, once again, it includes language that would move the responsibility of air traffic control from the FAA to a non-governmental organization run by a private board, “effectively dominated by the airlines and unaccountable to Congress” according to the National Business Aviation Administration. […]

Investigations are taking place into an incident from last week that resulted in headlines at local news outlets in Florida. A local NBC news station reported that an Icon A5 had to make an emergency landing, which resulted in an emergency rescue of the sole person on board. Several stations reported that the airplane in […]

Orolia is growing the market for its Kannad ELT-DT unit, which the company launched last summer to improve search and rescue capabilities for commercial and business aircraft. The Kannad ELT-DT complies with ICAO’s Global Aeronautical Distress and Safety System (GADSS) recommendations. Air France Industries and KLM Engineering and Maintenance have signed up to develop supplemental […]

Yesterday was a big day for Swiss airplane maker Pilatus Aircraft as the first business jet in the company’s nearly 80-year history was delivered. The customer, Portsmouth, New Hampshire-based PlaneSense, received the airplane and will put it into service in its fractional share ownership program. PlaneSense is very familiar with Pilatus’ products as the company […]

The Cessna Citation CJ3 and CJ3+ can now get a boost in performance as Tamarack Aerospace’s ATLAS Active Winglets have achieved the FAA and EASA supplemental type certificate for the C525B series. Tamarack already has STC approval for the C525-series CJs. The performance improvement with the active winglets is impressive. “With ATLAS you can climb […]

The 2018 season for the Red Bull Air Race World Championships kicked off this weekend in Abu Dhabi. It was a big race for Team Goulian as Michael Goulian pulled off his second career win. Goulian came close a few times last year, but luck was never on his side. He had not stood at […]

With light-sport aircraft manufacturers seemingly popping up all over the world like mushrooms sprouting after a good rainfall, you may wonder why any company would decide to get into this saturated market. In fact, light-sport guru Dan Johnson currently lists 143 LSA models on his bydanjohnson.com website. But after Glasair was bought by the Chinese […]

On January 26, the FAA issued an Emergency Order of Revocation against TapJets Inc., claiming that the company conducted various flights in violation of federal aviation regulations. The agency claimed that the company flew 10 flights during the period between September 28, 2016, and January 22, 2017, with unqualified pilots. Allegedly, one copilot only had […]

The 2018 season of the Red Bull Air Race World Championship is taking off this week in Abu Dhabi, with top aerobatic racers battling it out around the inflatable pylon courses made famous by the racing series. Fourteen pilots are competing in the Masters Class this year. Among the previous contestants are Americans Kirby Chambliss […]

If you are one of many pilots who have stayed ahead of the mandate to install ADS-B-Out equipment in your airplane before January 1, 2020, you might want to make sure that the transponder codes in the system are correct. The FAA is cracking down on what is called non-performing equipment (NPE) — ADS-B equipment […]