European environmental groups are howling in protest over reports that airlines will operate up to 100,000 empty flights in the next few months just to keep their slots at major airports. For much of the past two years, the European Commission had suspended the rule that airlines had to use at least 80 percent of […]
Textron rolled out the first production Cessna SkyCourier on Thursday and the clean-sheet turboprop twin package freighter will go to launch customer FedEx. The aircraft is Cessna’s first new twin in decades and marks an aggressive play for dominance in the regional freight market. “The SkyCourier brings an impressive combination of cabin flexibility, payload capability, […]
Like emergency handheld radio transceivers, emergency satellite communication systems are finding their way onto more pilots’ flight-bag “what if” wish lists. This week, Garmin announced an update to its popular inReach Mini compact satellite-link device, with two-way texting and SOS capabilities. In the “unlikely” prospect of an off-grid forced landing outside of cellphone service, investing […]
National training provider ATP Flight School announced this week it will open its 70th location, a new training center at Allegheny County Airport (KAGC) in West Mifflin, Pennsylvania, near Pittsburgh. Michael Arnold, director of marketing for ATP, said, “The airline industry is facing a shortage of pilots, presenting a tremendous opportunity for new pilots to […]
The U.K. Royal Air Force (RAF) announced this week that it scrambled Typhoon jet fighters to intercept four Russian bombers that were approaching British airspace. The Typhoons are from the RAF’s Quick Reaction Alert base at RAF Lossiemouth in northeast Scotland. They intercepted two Tupolev Tu-95 Bear H long-range bombers accompanied by a pair of […]
Bell Textron announced today (Feb. 2) its Autonomous Pod Transport (APT) has successfully demonstrated a ground-based Detect and Avoid (DAA) flight. The test was part of Bell’s NASA Systems Integration and Operationalization (SIO) project to demonstrate the unmanned aircraft’s systems integration with ground radar and its ability to meet requirements for navigating airspace and avoiding […]
A 19-year-old Florida college student has raised a ruckus over his social media account that broadcast position data on billionaire Elon Musk’s Gulfstream G650ER. Like many aircraft, Musk’s Gulfstream is blocked from the popular flight-tracking sites, but that proved little impediment to tech whiz Jack Sweeney, who set up a Twitter account to alert up […]
The U.S. Navy has issued a statement saying it is exploring recovery options for the wreckage of one of its Fifth Generation F-35C stealth fighters that sank in the South China Sea after a “landing mishap” on the carrier USS Carl Vinson on Monday (Jan. 31). The pilot was rescued from the sea by helicopter […]
The FAA issued a letter (Notice Number: NOTC2238) today (Feb. 1) again addressing the misuse of expense sharing and misunderstandings related to pilots’ certificate privileges when it comes to operations involving compensation. The agency cited unauthorized Part 135 operations (carrying passengers for compensation) as a nationwide problem, “putting the flying public in danger, diluting safety […]
One of the old sayings in support of air travel is: “A mile of road will get you one mile, but a mile of runway will take you anywhere.” It seems that, lately, pilots have frequently been borrowing those roadways as emergency runways after engine troubles. The latest occurred yesterday (Jan. 31) in Florida when […]
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