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Before taking steps to minimize the risk of engine failures, we probably should try to quantify it. Thanks to the way U.S. aviation mishaps are cataloged, its safe to say that engine failures happen more often than the data reflect. The sidebar at the bottom of the opposite page goes into greater detail, but its safe to say engine failures that dont result in substantial damage, serious injury or death arent part of the data. In fact, the NTSBs definitions specifically exclude [e]ngine failure or damage limited to an engine if only one engine fails or is damaged…. The punchline is that official data underestimate the actual and unknown engine-failure rate. Personal experience bears this out.

Search-and-rescue delays after an airplane crash will become a thing of the past, with Aireons global satellite network in place, the company says. Aireon says the system will be ready to go online in 2019. As long as an aircraft is broadcasting on 1090 MHz ADS-B, we will be able to locate it anywhere worldwide, said Peter Kearney, CEO of the Irish Aviation Authority, one of the partners in the new system. General aviation users dont need to pre-register, but search-and-rescue teams can contact the company for location data. The rescue capability is offered as a free service to the aviation community, Aireon says.

TRU Simulation + Training, a Textron-owned company, and FlightSafety International are forming a joint venture to provide training solutions for Textron Aviation’s line of business and general aviation aircraft. TRU and FlightSafety announced during the NBAA Convention in Orlando, Florida, that they will combine their “assets and capabilities, including their simulators, courseware, and world-class teams, […]

Owners of Cessna Citation CJ1+ and CJ2+ light business jets who are looking to update their instrument panels now have a new option with Rockwell Collins’ touchscreen Pro Line Fusion system. But the owners will have to wait for about a year. Rockwell Collins announced the upgrade program this week and expects the FAA to […]

Flying senior editor Rob Mark is the recipient of the 2018 NBAA Gold Wing Award for Journalism Excellence, which the National Business Aviation Association presents annually for “excellent, accurate and insightful reporting on issues related to business aviation.” Mark won the prize for his August 2017 feature article, ATC Privatization: Inside the Fight for Air […]

Sensing that ADS-B installations in general aviation aircraft are lagging far behind where they should be with a little more than a year left to go before the January 1, 2020, compliance deadline, FAA relaunched a $500 ADS-B rebate program through October 11, 2019. The agency says it is making $4.9 million available under the […]

FlightSafety International’s chairman, president and CEO Bruce Whitman, whose career with the flight training company spanned 57 years, died this week at the age of 85. During Whitman’s tenure, he made it his mission to reduce aviation accidents by creating programs that train pilots, not only for proficiency, but to increase their abilities to handle […]

CloudAhoy is used by pilots at all levels for post-flight debrief. CloudAhoy provides “Flight Debrief in the Age of Technology“. It is data-driven and incorporates artificial intelligence technology, advanced analysis, state of the art visualization, integration of video, and automatic scoring of flights (currently in beta). The ability to relive the flight, to quickly identify […]

It doesn’t much matter whether Boeing intended to set off a revolution in cockpit instrumentation when it delivered the first 767 in the early 1980s. That, of course, was the result when the new jetliner unleashed the first computerized cockpit displays destined to forever change the way pilots control and navigate aircraft. The new instrumentation […]

Despite years of one short-term resolution after another, the Senate yesterday took a lead from last week’s move by the House and passed the FAA reauthorization necessary to carry the agency forward until September 30, 2023. The bill, minus the controversial effort to privatize the nation’s air traffic control system, passed with bi-partisan support on […]