Flight Safety

AVweb’s Flight Safety section offers in-depth coverage of aviation safety topics, including accident analyses, risk management strategies, regulatory updates, and pilot training insights. Designed for pilots, instructors, and aviation professionals, this section provides timely information to enhance situational awareness and promote best practices in flight operations.

MH370 Spurs Calls For Global Flight Tracking

As the search for Malaysia Airlines Flight MH 370 continues, the International Civil Aviation Organization said it will convene a special meeting next month to discuss global tracking of airline flights. Government officials and industry experts from around the world will meet May 12-13 in Montreal to explore the specific aircraft and satellite-based capabilities needed […]

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Option Sought For Cylinder Problems

An alternative means of compliance is in the works that might help ease the impact of an FAA airworthiness directive (PDF) affecting about 6,000 general aviation aircraft with cylinders from Superior Air Parts, AOPA said this week. “Superior is working to develop and submit an alternative means of compliance that, if it can be successfully […]

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King for a Day (Of the Pattern)

One thing I like about Florida is that summer comes early, marked by two events-the snowbirds go home and take the traffic jams with them and the weather gets warmer. Eventually, itll get hot, but Im reptilian by nature and the weather suits my clothes, as the old bluesmen say. Its Cub weather. With less […]

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Pilot Missing in Midair Over San Francisco Bay (Updated)

Dreadnought, a heavily modified Hawker Sea Fury race plane and a Cessna 210 were flying together when they touched over San Francisco Bay on Sunday. NTSB spokesman Howard Plagens told local media the accident happened in a “passing maneuver” and that the unidentified Sea Fury pilot felt a “thump” and saw the other aircraft fall […]

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Short Final

When approaching (and departing) an airport, I turn on my strobes and landing light to be more easily seen by others. Several weeks ago, I was about five miles south of the field when a Bonanza pilot came on CTAS to announce his take-off and departure. Bonanza:“Bonanza 12345 taking runway 30 for take-off with a […]

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CJ3 In Pond, Plane Hits Lawn Tractor

Three people aboard a Cessna CJ3 escaped injury but the same can’t be said for the jet after it overran the runway at Spruce Creek aviation community near Daytona, Fla., on Saturday. It ended up in a golf course water hazard. Circumstances of the landing accident weren’t immediately clear but the aircraft, registered to a […]

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Approach Light Secrets

As much as we drill instrument students on any of the 10 items from FAR 91.175 (c) you must see to go below DA/MDA, in the real world if we see anything that might be part of the runway, we land on it. Its nearly certain that youll first see the approach lighting system (ALS), […]

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Drone Video On Approach Draws Attention

Transport Canada and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police are asking for public assistance to identify the operator of a small drone that shot a video of an airliner on final approach to Vancouver International Airport from above the airliner. A person who goes by the name of Quadrotor Dragonfly on his YouTube account posted the […]

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Jeppesen Ordered to Pay $43.1 Million

A jury in federal court in Denver has ordered Jeppesen Sanderson to pay $43.1 million to a husband-and-wife app development team after determining that the aviation giant breached terms of a contract and committed fraud. The Denver Post is reporting that the decision came after Foxborough, Mass.-based SolidFX argued that Jeppesen stole its idea for […]

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