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It took nearly a year of often contentious debate, but the U.S. House this week passed a long-term reauthorization of the FAA to replace the series of short-term extensions that have plagued the agency since 2015. The bi-partisan effort will run for five years. While the new legislation did not include his controversial amendment to […]

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Bombardier’s soon to be certified Global 7000 business jet was last week named a winner of the 2018 Red Dot Product Design award in Essen Germany. The Global 7000 was selected by the 39-person jury from more than 6,300 submissions nominated from nearly 60 countries competing in several categories. The Red Dot award honors innovation, […]

The days learning about flying from John and Martha King by watching VHS tapes are long gone, but after more than 40 years evolving their pilot courses, King Schools has said goodbye to physical media and is now delivering 100 percent of its pilot courses online. “We have followed two rules that have kept us […]

Daher announced at the Sun ‘n Fun International Fly-In and Expo that it has made further enhancements to its TBM 930. The French single-engine turboprop received the latest upgrade to the Garmin G3000 system, adding the SurfaceWatch alerting system for the runway environment; Baro VNAV, which allows pilots to fly precision approaches based on barometric […]

Tamarack Aerospace Group has achieved another Supplemental Type Certificate for its ATLAS Active Winglets, this time for the Cessna Citation CJ2 and CJ2+, otherwise known as the C525A series. Tamarack has already achieved STCs for the C525 and C525B series of Citation business jets, covering the CJ, CJ1, CJ1+, M2, CJ3 and CJ3+. “Active Winglets […]

Many thousands of general aviation pilots are benefitting from the free in-cockpit weather information broadcast over the FIS-B link accessible by 978-MHz universal access transceivers – what most of us call ADS-B In. Now, a host of new weather products are coming to the service to provide pilots with even more information they can use […]

Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University recently asked pilots in a number of certificate categories how well they understand weather information presented to them in written and graphical form. The NTSB in 2014 labeled identifying and communicating elements of hazardous weather as one of its Top 10 safety priorities, calling weather, “a frequent cause or contributing factor to […]

As the pilot shortage becomes an increasing reality with a large percentage of the professional pilot population reaching retirement age, the country is begging for fast-track programs for budding professional pilots. A new program at the International Aero Academy in Lakeland, Florida, promises a lower total cost to achieve the degree program and flight hours […]

Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) says, “Innovation is key to competition and accessibility.” The Utah senator yesterday introduced new legislation he calls the Aviation Empowerment Act. Should the act become law, Lee says it would create a new class of pilot by tightly defining a few key FAA terms as they relate to a contemporary transportation […]