Passenger Lands Caravan After Pilot Becomes ‘Incoherent’
Air traffic controllers guide passenger with no flight training to a safe landing.
Air traffic controllers guide passenger with no flight training to a safe landing.
A letter petitions for the need to continue availability of the current fuel supply during the transition to unleaded avgas.
If successful, the airline would be allowed to hire pilots with just 750 hours, half of the current requirement.
Recent high-profile cases underline the importance of knowing the law before an incident happens.
In a move that the FAA says will not “add delay” to completing type certification, the agency says it is “modifying its regulatory approach” to certificating electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft.
The funds will come from President Biden’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law.
The FAA is ramping up air traffic control staffing in northern Florida and eyeing new strategies to keep aircraft moving, the company announced after a two-day meeting with airlines and aviation stakeholders targeting air traffic congestion in the state. FAA staffing shortages, particularly at the Jacksonville Air Route Traffic Control Center, along with weather, space […]
YouTube personality and backcountry pilot says if his certificate suspension is upheld, people may be forced to make dangerous landings.
Luke Aikins, the lead pilot for the Red Bull Plane Swap stunt that streamed live last Sunday on Hulu, has apparently posted a message on his Instagram page in which he takes responsibility for continuing with the event without permission from the FAA. In the Instagram statement, Aikins says he received an email from the […]
A pilot in his 20s climbs into an airplane and takes off to perform a record-setting stunt that is sure to impress his millions of followers. The plot so far might bear a current-day familiarity, but in this case, the year is 1914 and the pilot is Lincoln Beachey. Beachey was a pioneer of aerial […]