Rob Mark

A head-up display gives pilots ­access to the critical flight information needed to safely fly the aircraft while allowing them to focus their attention outside the cockpit for ­potential conflicts or threats. A HUD projector sends critical flight, navigation and aircraft energy-management data to a glass screen, called a combiner, hanging at eye level between […]

U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.) said yesterday there’s more work to be done to improve his 2012 Pilot’s Bill of Rights. The senior senator from Oklahoma, a member of the Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee, the Senate General Aviation Caucus and a certified flight instructor, on Wednesday introduced S.755, the Fairness for Pilots Act, created […]

Airplane owners can now install Garmin’s G5 electronic flight instrument as a replacement directional gyro (DG) or horizontal situation indicator (HSI) in type-certified models, expanding an approval received last year to add the formerly experimental-only display to the panel as an artificial horizon EFIS. When paired with certain Garmin navcom radios and GPS navigators, the […]

The Flight Safety Foundation says 54 percent of all accidents could potentially be avoided if the flying pilot had executed a timely go-around, simply bringing up the power and returning for another attempt at landing, often because the first approach was in some way unstable. The FSF recently learned that 83 percent of runway excursions […]

The dwindling remnants of a glorious afternoon sun were disappearing beneath the horizon as I turned the Remos GXiS off the tiny runway at Flugplatz Pasewalk in far northeast Germany. With two hours of fuel remaining in the 22-gallon tank, my first inclination was to simply turn around and blow another hour or so in […]

Crash investigators are beginning to piece together reports from people on the ground and information gleaned from a flight data recorder recovered from a Cessna Citation I that slammed into an unoccupied home in an Atlanta suburb Friday night. The twinjet crashed about 15 miles north of its destination, Atlanta’s Fulton County Airport, at about […]

Amazon’s Prime Air delivery system moved ever nearer to reality in the United States last week when one of the company’s drones delivered a small box of sunscreen bottles to a pre-established meeting site at an Amazon-hosted conference in Palm Springs, California. Once the drone released its package on the ground, the vehicle disappeared back […]

The National Transportation Safety Board preliminary report of an MD-83 overrun accident a few weeks ago in Ypsilanti, Michigan, uncovered a mechanical problem with the right elevator of the charter airliner, although investigators say it is too early to conclusively point to the elevator as the cause of the accident. An eerie near-replay of the […]

An Australian Regional Express airlines Saab 340 landed safely at the Sydney airport about midday on Friday after one of the 34-seat turboprop’s propellers separated from the airplane in flight. The 25-year-old regional airliner, carrying 16 passengers plus the two pilots and a flight attendant, was en route to Sydney from Albury at 6,000 feet […]

With inflight loss of control still responsible for more than 40 percent of all aviation fatalities, Aviation Performance Solutions continued its efforts last week to reduce that number in air transport category aircraft with a newly created upset prevention and recovery training specifically for Airbus aircraft. The APS Airbus A320/A330/A340 type-specific UPRT program complies with […]