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Evenings and weekends tend to be the most dangerous times for GA pilots in Australia, according to a report published Monday by the Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB). GA accidents between 5 p.m. and 8:59 p.m. were 1.6 times more likely to be fatal than during other times of the day, the ATSB found. The […]

When the FAA published a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) on Monday proposing to turn a Washington State TFR into a permanent prohibited zone, AOPA was quick to cry foul. “AOPA has consistently opposed these TFRs in the Puget Sound area because of the adverse operational impact on general aviation, particularly seaplanes using the Hood […]

Bombardier Recreational Products, based in Quebec, which was sold off from Bombardier last year, has relaunched itself under a new brand name, BRP. The company’s V-engines for recreational aircraft, which were introduced at EAA AirVenture Oshkosh last year and are under development at Bombardier-Rotax in Austria, will be part of the BRP organization. “We will […]

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____________COLUMNS (https://avweb.com/columns) As the Beacon Turns #78: Open EyesIf you maintain the same airplane that you fly, you will gain a lot of useful knowledge. But briefly looking over the plane every time you do a preflight increases the risk of not noticing when something starts subtly changing. AVweb’s Michael Maya Charles brings in another […]

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When in doubt, spell it out. The NTSB hopes to make it easier for pilots flying into Seattle-Tacoma International Airport to land in the right spot by urging the FAA to clearly mark a taxiway that has been accidentally used as a runway several times in the last few years. In the most recent incident […]

A Hawaiian Airlines pilot declared his boss a safety hazard on Thursday and asked him to leave his airplane. Capt. Craig Kobayashi told Josh Gotbaum, the bankruptcy trustee now at the helm of the airline, that he was so angry with Gotbaum that he didn’t think he could safely fly the Boeing 767-300 with the […]

If you’re planning a trip to the Boston area at the end of next month, be aware that a big chunk of airspace will be under temporary flight restrictions for four days. The FAA released details of the TFR around the Democratic National Convention being held July 26 to July 29. The TFR will close […]

The U.S. Border Patrol officially launched its electronic eyes in the sky on Friday. After several weeks of testing, two Israeli-built Hermes 450 drones started patrolling 300 miles of border between the U.S. and Mexico controlled by the border patrol’s Tuscon sector. The plane’s array of day- and night-vision cameras will be used to spot […]