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The final nomination vote of Steve Dickson, President Trump’s nominee to run the FAA, has been delayed while a Senate committee investigates the nominee’s role in a previously unreported whistleblower complaint filed by a Delta Air Lines Airbus 330 pilot while Dickson was still Delta Airline’s senior vice president of flight operations. Dickson’s Senate nomination […]

The FAA last week warned aircraft operators of potential problems if they had their McCauley constant speed propellers serviced by Sensenich Propeller Services, Inc., North Windham, Connecticut. The agency says the company was re-installing equipment without fully following the recommended methods, techniques, and practices prescribed in the current McCauley constant speed propellers maintenance manual. The […]

The FAA has released the new Airmen Certification Standards (ACS) for the airline transport pilot (ATP) rating, effective on June 28, 2019. The effort brings together the previously used practical test standards with additional requirements for the certificate, updates to the knowledge exam, and notes formerly distributed across a variety of source materials. As with […]

The FAA today issued an airworthiness directive effective immediately that grounds all Cessna Citation CJ 525, 525A and 525B models operating with Tamarack active load alleviation system (ATLAS) winglets installed in accordance with STCSA03842NY. The agency said malfunctioning of the ATLAS could lead to loss of control of the entire aircraft. The European Aviation Safety […]

In 2009, Colgan Air Flight 3407 crashed in the Buffalo, New York, metropolitan area, killing all 49 passengers and crewmembers on board and one person inside the house into which the Bombardier Dash-8 Q400 crashed. The extensive post-crash investigation by the National Transportation Safety Board found that the pilots were completely at fault. The captain […]

Hobbyist drone pilots in the United States face new restrictions after the FAA adopted stricter rules and regulations aimed at keeping the national airspace system safe and available for both manned and unmanned aircraft. Under the new rules, which took effect this month, hobbyist drone pilots are no longer exempt under Section 336, which has […]

Embraer’s Praetor 600 super-midsize biz jet was awarded two type certificates – one from the FAA, the other from EASA – on opening day of the European Business Aviation Conference and Exhibition in Geneva, Switzerland. The Praetor 600 is the first super-midsize jet with full fly-by-wire technology, which powers the Active Turbulence Reduction. The Praetor […]

Former Delta Air Lines executive Steve Dickson faced heated questions in the Senate on Wednesday about whether regulators could have done more to prevent two fatal crashes of Boeing 737 Max jets. Dickson, who was senior vice president of flight operations at Delta until his retirement last October and a former F-15 fighter pilot, is […]

The FAA’s Aviation Safety Information Analysis and Sharing (ASIAS) Program has over the past 11 years used an open exchange of operational data to continuously improve safety. The General Aviation Joint Steering committee, for example, uses operations data to identify risks, develop recommended risk mitigation measures and evaluate the effectiveness of implemented solutions. The NBAA […]

In a move to prevent future complications in the aviation industry akin to those that transpired as a result of the partial government shutdown earlier this year, the U.S. House of Representatives Transportation and Infrastructure Committee has passed H.R. 1108, the Aviation Funding Stability Act of 2019. H.R. 1108 was introduced on February 8 and […]