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One Aviation flew its Eclipse jet with a new wing, in August. The testing is the first step in developing a new version of the jet, EA700. The EA700 will be a larger version of the original 500/550 jet, with a bigger wing, bigger engines, and a fuselage extended 14 inches. The more powerful EA700 will be able to climb direct to 43,000 feet and extend its range to 1500 NM. It will also boost performance for high and hot airports. The flight test lasted about 80 minutes and all parameters were met, the company said. The aircraft felt very solid, a testament to the engineering and build teams, said test pilot Jerry Chambers.

Bruce Landsberg has been a general aviation safety advocate for decades by his own admission. “My interest in safety actually began when I was a young CFI,” he told Flying yesterday. Landsberg was recently named as a White House nominee to the National Transportation Safety Board, an organization Landsberg calls the “preeminent accident investigation body […]

In the wake of back-to-back-to-back historic hurricanes causing unprecedented damage to three separate areas, the general aviation community has responded with an incredible level of generosity. Now, as attention is focused on relief efforts in Puerto Rico — as work continues in southeast Texas and the Florida Keys — celebrities are raising the bar even higher […]

The general aviation community’s response to the horrific and historic devastation of Hurricanes Harvey and Irma has been nothing short of incredible and inspirational. And while some organizations and pilots reached triple-digit missions in a matter of days, the work is only just beginning in some areas, as Maria bore down on Puerto Rico and […]

The NTSB in August released the latest in a series of what it calls Safety Alerts, which focused on preventable accidents stemming from fuel starvation or fuel exhaustion. According to the Safety Alert (SA-067, Flying On Empty, August 2017), an average of more than 50 accidents each year in the five years from 2011 to 2015 occurred due to fuel management issues.

When I first started flying what I consider to be serious cross-countries, there was no such thing as in-cockpit weather radar. Even when flying the best-equipped singles, it was rare to have an sferic device like a Stormscope or Strike Finder. When my route was filled with a line of thunderstorms, I either went around them or landed and found a hotel for the evening. These days, we have near-real-time Nexrad weather radar from a variety of sources, and even ATC is better at pointing out storms and helping us around them.

We own and fly a Diamondstar DA40 from our home in Michigan to destinations all over the country. Generally my wife and I plan a two-week trip each fall and spring, often to the coasts. However, the word plan is figurative as we expect weather deviations and our routing may change at any time. We literally wake up in the morning, look at the current weather and decide our destination for the day. Typically, we will fly no more than 500 miles and land at a suitable GA airport. While I button down the airplane, my wife books a hotel, rents a car and finds out what to see and do in town from the always-friendly and helpful FBO staff.

The aviation arm of the United Nations is sponsoring a two-day event in Montreal, where participants like Amazon Inc., the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Boeing Co., General Electric Co., two leading industry trade associations, and researchers from China and Brazil will gather to meet about the booming drone industry. “(The event) isn’t likely to […]

Stop off at the USA.gov website and you’ll find a long list of government organizations that halted production of their podcasts, from the U.S. Air Force, to the Consumer Product Safety Commission and even the White House. But the NTSB plans to soon join federal podcast survivors like the National Institute of Health and NASA […]

In our last issue, we talked about the building blocks of weather radar-how it was developed, the basics of radio waves, problems with radar sampling, and the important differences between composite and base reflectivity. If you havent read that, I highly recommend you do so to get a good grounding in radar fundamentals. In this issue well take that knowledge and teach you a bit about interpretation.