The FAA’s Southern Region has rejected the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association’s claim that “egregious” FBO pricing at Asheville Regional Airport in North Carolina violates federal airport grant assurances, calling the Part 13 complaint the association filed last summer “unpersuasive.” The FAA Southern Region Airports Division wrote in a June 7 letter to AOPA general […]
Remember all the dire predictions about the FAA’s upcoming ADS-B equipment mandate, the ones that warned aircraft owners of a projected logjam of necessary installation work as the January 1, 2020, deadline approached? It’s looking more and more like those prognostications were spot on. With a year and a half left to go before the […]
Airline pilots are bristling at the suggestion that the nation’s pilot shortage can be solved by a transition to single-pilot cockpits, calling the plan an attack on safety and urging Congress to act. The Air Line Pilots Association (ALPA) wants the House to strike language from draft FAA reauthorization legislation calling for research into single-pilot […]
Dan Buchanan, a wheelchair-bound air show hang glider pilot, died at Mountain Home Air Force Base in Idaho on Saturday when something went wrong during his performance, according to local news sources. UPI and KIVI-TV reported witnesses seeing Buchanan’s hang glider diving toward the ground while releasing a cable after completing a maneuver with another […]
A test program that is giving military veterans the opportunity to become airline pilots could help relieve some of the tension caused by the current pilot shortage. Announced last fall by U.S. Secretary of Transportation Elaine L. Chao, the Forces to Flyers Research Initiative is a three-year program that will give veterans access to flight […]
It’s getting so almost no one except industry insiders can keep track of all the electric flying machines in various stages of development, most of which were highlighted at the recent Uber Elevate Conference in Los Angeles. No one doubts there will soon be dozens of potential flying machines headed to a big city near […]
#plane lands on a Huntington Beach street #California pic.twitter.com/bUPrgug7rm — Nepareizais (@Nepareizais) June 3, 2018 A student pilot flying a Cessna 172 in Southern California made a flawless emergency landing on a busy Huntington Beach street after losing power and radioing a distress call to John Wayne Airport tower last Friday. In a tense call […]
A Geico Skytypers pilot was killed last Wednesday in an accident shortly after takeoff from Republic Airport in Farmingdale, New York, according to the Skytypers team and local news outlets. A New York Post article described witnesses seeing the North American SNJ-2 spinning and diving toward the ground while part of a six-airplane formation. Before […]
Following closely behind the National Transportation Safety Board’s successful Loss of Control Inflight Roundtable, Phoenix-based Aviation Performance Solutions said a key reason LOC-I continues to be such a persistent and lethal threat to aviation safety stems from a number of misconceptions that continue to be either neglected or go unrecognized by agencies and organizations. A […]
Three companies in Europe – Tecnam, BRP-Rotax and Siemens – announced they will lead a project for the development of parallel hybrid powertrains in general aviation. Funded under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 program, the “High Power High Scalability Aircraft Hybrid Powertrain” (H3PS) project has the goal of providing a “foundation for the development, manufacturing […]
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