Safety, Ops & Regulation

Charter and air tour operators have three years to implement safety management systems (SMS) under the final SMS regulation the FAA announced on April 22.

Sierra West Flight 887 might well become one of the best examples of what happens when CRM training doesn’t work.

Poor crew resource management and disagreement lead to tragic results for the pilots of a Falcon 20 cargo jet.

About 1 million gal. of the fuel is sitting in a tank in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, awaiting final laboratory testing before it can be offered to customers.

Former Rolls-Royce CEO Warren East has been appointed chairman of NATS, the UK air navigation service provider.

Alvin Brown and J. Todd Inman were sworn in as new members of the NTSB on April 8, bringing the safety board to its full complement of five members.

Small airports could benefit from FAA approval of non-Federal air traffic control displays

Certification now paves the way for deliveries to commence.

The FAA is awarding $27.2 million in a new round of grants to 11 U.S. universities for research to reduce emissions and noise.

The new executive director of EASA plans to focus on digitalization and modernization once he assumes his post on April 1.

U.S. business aviation faces a huge fuel tax increase, new audits and a longer aircraft depreciation schedule. NBAA's Ed Bolen joins to discuss industry's response.

Given the growing interest and potential threats that come with extensive flight data tracking, business executives must be equipped to counter them.

Wheels Up and FlyExclusive logged the same year-on-year period for the past three months, while having performed above the total from Dec. 2019 to Feb. 2020.

According to the White House, the funding is part of the administration’s larger effort to rebuild infrastructure across the U.S.

As we have seen from the accidents and incidents described in this article, the management of pitch trim failures deserves more attention.

The Biden administration is pitching higher taxes on business aviation fuel.

Did the backgrounds of the two pilots contribute to the fatal crash of a Cessna Citation 550 air medical flight?

Pilots can encounter excessive forces on the yoke when the pitch trim system unexpectedly malfunctions.

Ed Bolen, NBAA president and CEO, spoke to attendees at the 2024 Schedulers & Dispatchers Conference in Fort Worth, Texas.

Pilots should manage distractions to be on heightened alert when the accident chain has started.

EGNOS provides LPV (localizer performance with vertical guidance) approaches at smaller airports.

Trade groups took exception to the Biden administration’s proposed fiscal 2025 budget for the FAA, which would impose greater costs on business aviation.

An airline crew just expected the plane to be behind them. Their radio calls demonstrate they didn’t change that expectation throughout the tail strike incident.

An association representing flight-training providers has called for stronger support and oversight of contract ATC towers that serve smaller airports.

Under the DOT budget request, FAA funding would total $21.8 billion, not counting another $5 billion in special bipartisan infrastructure law (BIL) grants.