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Honeywell and four other U.S. companies involved in the manufacture and distribution of an onboard Traffic Alert Collision Avoidance System (TCAS) were named last week in a suit by families of Russian victims who died in a midair collision over Germany in July 2002. The suit alleges the pilots’ training and instructions to operate the […]

“We have funds to carry us to certification and beyond,” Safire Aircraft CEO Camilo Salomon told AVweb on Thursday, saying also that his workers will be back on the job tomorrow. “We just closed [on our financial deal] yesterday in Geneva,” he said, talking on his cellphone from a noisy street in Europe. “We have […]

The way Notices to Airmen are written is confusing to pilots, and it can be difficult to extract important safety-of-flight information from the mass of data, researchers at the University of Central Florida, in Orlando, have found (winning them our thanks … but possibly also our, “Gee, you think so?” award). “This is critical information, […]

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The FAA on Tuesday published a final rule requiring updates to the software on some Garmin GPS units. The upgrade will prevent the GPS navigation unit from providing erroneous cross-deviation information, which could result in the aircraft deviating from its intended course for a brief period of time, the FAA said. Also, a recent Airworthiness […]

With summer here, thunderstorms, congested airports and flight delays are to be expected, and the FAA has posted a new online tutorial to help pilots work with ATC’s traffic management system. Divided into 13 short modules, the tutorial includes some gorgeous vintage photos as background to help keep you awake. A few minutes’ browsing will […]

When the supersonic Concorde fleet was retired last year, one of the glamorous birds came to rest on a barge outside the Intrepid Air & Space Museum on the Hudson River, on Manhattan’s West Side. Last weekend, the airplane opened to the public, and unlike at most aviation museums, visitors are invited not only to […]

When the longest-ever nonstop airline flight went into service on Monday — 18-plus hours between New York’s Newark Airport and Singapore, over a 10,000-mile route, in an Airbus A340-500 — the pilots became inadvertent guinea pigs. To document their response to the stresses of the flight, the crew will be hooked up with a special […]