Rob Mark

Eight years of work culminated yesterday with the announcement that Aireon’s new space-based air traffic surveillance system became operational and immediately entered trials over the North Atlantic. Aireon’s ADS-B receivers are installed onboard all 66 of the newly launched Iridium satellite constellation now in low-earth orbit providing real-time air traffic surveillance and tracking to 100 […]

Piper Aircraft announced two new value-priced additions to its trainer-class of aircraft on the opening day of Sun N’ Fun at Lakeland Florida. The company showed off its proof of concept Piper Pilot 100 and Pilot 100i. The basic 100 includes Garmin G3X Touch Certified avionics and a standard two pilot configuration while the instrument […]

The Chipper SS, Chipper Aero’s newest kitplane for the amateur-built market arrives at Sun n’ Fun late Tuesday from Wichita, in time to strut its short takeoff and landing (STOL) stuff for the crowds through the weekend. Belite Aircraft company president James Wiebe said, “We continued to hear the call for a Part 103 (ultralight) […]

Nick Leontidis said, “there’s an unprecedented demand for professional pilots and a new urgency to develop better pilots, faster.” Leontidis is CAE Group president for Civil Aviation Training Solutions that issued its first report – Airline and Business Jet Pilot Demand Outlook 10-Year View – on pilot demand in 2018 and this year updated the […]

The Bob Hoover Legacy Foundation (BHLF), under the guidance of President Tracy Forrest and Chairman Michael Herman announced their plan to petition the United States Postal Service to honor the late Robert A. ‘Bob’ Hoover with a commemorative postage stamp on his 100th birthday in 2022. The Foundation began this multi-year process with the USPS […]

The Slovenian aircraft builder Pipistrel says it just passed a number of major milestones. The first is celebrating their 30th year in business, that the company just sold it’s 1,000th aircraft from the Sinus/Virus family and finally, that the aircraft is headed to Suriname, bringing the company’s international country total to 96. Pipistrel is a […]

The FAA’s Chicago Aircraft Certification Branch posted an aviation maintenance update late Tuesday for both the Cirrus SR-20 and SR-22 resulting from the investigation into a near-fatal accident at Houston Executive Airport in Katy Texas in May of 2018. The pilot of the Cirrus SR-20 involved in the accident reported shortly after takeoff, that he […]

As a former vice president of flight operations at Delta Airlines, Steve Dickson is probably used to putting out fires on a daily basis. The Atlanta native and former U.S. Air Force F-15 pilot and Air Force Academy graduate will surely be put to the test soon in front of the Senate when it considers […]

Resembling a military flight operations standdown, last week’s grounding of Boeing’s 737 Max 8 & 9 aircraft have given many parties a few moments to absorb a wealth of information already gathered and reflect on the best ways to move ahead while awaiting the FAA approval needed to allow those aircraft back into the air. […]

The National Transportation Safety Board said a pilot’s failure to perform a go-around following an unstable approach resulted in a low-altitude stall and the subsequent crash of a Learjet Model 35 at Teterboro Airport, New Jersey (TEB) in May 2017. The remarks came during a March 12 public meeting. After departing controlled flight during a […]