FAA

Funding will support ground and flight testing of the ES-36’s turbogenerator system.

The agency declined to reconsider its decision on a complaint involving T-hangar rents at Colorado’s Centennial Airport.

New restrictions on touch-and-goes and parallel departures prompt concerns from AOPA over pilot notification.

Powrachute requests temporary certification relief while awaiting acceptance of a corrected ASTM standard.

New notification procedure follows August communication problems involving the presidential helicopter and a regional jet near Reagan National.

Union questions safety of proposed 250-foot structure near Reagan National Airport following FAA no-hazard determination.

Pilots could report AWOS and ASOS outages and erroneous data through a public webform.

Projects target detect-and-avoid systems, satellite communications and traffic-management tools.

The agency says pilots remain in control when the navigation problem occurs.

Iowa airport officials are considering new access rules following a disagreement involving an ultralight pilot.