Rob Mark

While Rep. Bill Shuster’s (R-Pa) announcement that he’ll leave the House at the end of 2018 might signal a potential win for opponents of his controversial plan to separate air traffic control from the FAA, Mr. Shuster’s remark, “We have much still to do,” should serve as a reminder that the effort to create a […]

Ground collisions have thankfully been few and far between over the past few years. However, the FAA is taking no chances and continues to raise awareness of the risk of runway incursions between aircraft and vehicles operating on airports of all sizes. The agency said the majority of incursions occur in the first two-thirds of […]

Too often, GA accidents appear as just one more sentence or two in the media, often accompanied by a single ugly photo, a problem that dilutes the human cost of these tragedies as well as the efforts to improve pilot awareness of the risks of growing too comfortable in the cockpit of an aircraft. Here […]

Vulcanair made a promise at AirVenture 2017 that the company’s new Vulcanair V1.0 would receive its FAA type certificate before the end of the year. With just a few days remaining in the year, CEO Remo De Feo and CEO of U.S. distributor Ameravia Chris Benaiges said that promise has been kept. The company said […]

Paul Schuda, director of the NTSB Training Center in Ashburn, Virginia, died last Saturday when the Cessna 210 he was riding in crashed in southeastern Indiana approximately 40 miles northwest of Cincinnati. The aircraft impacted the ground in a heavily wooded area at approximately 9 p.m. local time. The accident also claimed the life of […]

What better way to interpret the economic tea leaves than a peek at the end-of-year numbers. For Piper Aircraft, data released yesterday showed a company-reported, double-digit growth in aircraft revenue and deliveries in 2017. Prominent in those numbers was the increase in demand for Piper’s training and M-class aircraft. While GAMA’s 2017 year-end data on […]

With the ADS-B Out compliance date drawing ever closer, many pilots are still waiting for the big holiday deal on the technology they’ll need to meet the deadline. Not long after we ran a story on the Skybeacon wingtip ADS-B Out solutions, uAvionix asked if we knew anyone with an experimental airplane willing to serve […]

If there’s a road warrior in your house or office, whether they hand over their luggage to the CSR at an airline terminal, pile their belongings into the rear baggage area on a chartered King Air, or even their own Cirrus SR-22, the worst Christmas gift this year is probably going to be a smart […]

Stop by the Pitt Meadows airport near Vancouver soon and you might catch a glimpse of what Pipistrel Aircraft hopes is the future of flight. The Slovenia aircraft builder’s Canadian distributor, Pipistrel Aircraft Canada Inc., recently delivered the first completely electric two-seat Alpha Electro to a customer near Vancouver. While the aircraft arrived in a […]

There’s nothing guaranteed to make steam pour from the ears of a GA pilot quite like a discussion about the price of fuel and services at some airports. But that’s just what the AOPA did earlier this year. They began asking questions about pricing and airport access and conferenced in the FAA. The result was […]