Legendary aircraft designer Burt Rutan has reportedly turned his outside-the-box vision toward eVTOL transportation and he’s already said to prepare for something different. “It’s pretty different from the 170 different outfits that are doing eVTOL now,” he is quoted as saying by Aviation Week. “And that’s all I can say about it.” Rutan “retired” in […]
Texas authorities say two people died and a third was injured when two Robinson R22 helicopters collided in midair about 160 miles south of San Antonio. According to local media, the two helicopters came together while they were herding deer on a ranch near Hebronville. One helicopter was able to land and the other crashed, […]
The FAA is warning officials in Silicon Valley they face a long expensive battle to close an important reliever airport for San Jose’s Mineta Airport. According to AOPA, Santa Clara County supervisors have voted to stop taking federal Airport Improvement Fund grants to begin the process of timing out the obligations that come with them. […]
The Canadian Owners and Pilots Association (COPA) is reporting that Canada is delaying implementation of mandatory ADS-B because too many aircraft operators have said they can’t meet the phased-in equipage deadlines proposed by the air traffic services provider Nav Canada. Transport Canada Civil Aviation (TCCA) also needs time to get regulatory matters ironed out. Nav […]
Despite stall awareness training and more technology designed to help pilots avoid them, stalls are still a significant factor in accidents. But in this podcast, the last of our five-part series on the topic, veteran instructor Wayman Luy says stall training is getting better. “What we’re doing right is doing scenario-based training. And the newer […]
A Southwest flight attendant is alleging in a lawsuit that two pilots streamed live video of people, including her, using a bathroom on the aircraft to an iPad in the cockpit. But the airline says it was a prank that went wrong and the pilots deny it altogether. The flight attendant claims in the suit […]
Hours after the Indonesian final crash report of a Lion Air 737 MAX, the FAA revoked the repair certificate of a Florida shop that allegedly improperly repaired the airplane’s angle-of-attack indicator. Xtra Aerospace was named in the Indonesian report, which said investigators could find no paper trail indicating the sensor had been properly calibrated. Although […]
This week, AVweb’s news roundup found reports on the certification of a landing light system for the Boeing 737, a new hydraulic door system and the opening of an office for an aviation training management systems provider. Whelen Aerospace Technologies announced the certification of it BoomBeam High Intensity Discharge (HID) landing light system for the […]
An unbroken chain of faulty aircraft design, poor pilot performance and maintenance oversights caused last year’s crash of a Lion Air 737 MAX, according to Indonesia’s air safety board. In its final report on the Oct. 29, 2018, crash off Jakarta, the report on Friday listed nine findings that formed a causal chain leading to […]
Universal Avionics (UA) introduced its new “Fly by Sight” flight deck concept this week at the 2019 NBAA Business Aviation Convention & Exhibition in Las Vegas, Nevada. According to UA, Fly by Sight will combine its ClearVision SkyLens Head Wearable Display and Interactive FMS (i-FMS) with the goal of reducing the pilot’s head-down time in […]
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