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.

New Details, More Questions In Nashville Crash

A Canadian newspaper is reporting that the pilot of a Cessna 172 who died in unusual circumstances in a crash at Nashville International Airport early Tuesday has the same name as a convicted bank robber facing recent pornography charges who said he was embarking on a 30-minute flight. The Windsor Star says it has confirmed […]

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Spacecraft Test Flight Ends With Gear Damage

A full-scale test article built by Sierra Nevada Corporation in support of its effort to build a commercial crew and cargo vehicle that would serve the International Space Station flew freely for the first time last Saturday, completing a smooth descent and landing, but it then skidded off the runway when one landing gear failed […]

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Redbird Cheap Gas Experiment: A Lasting Effect?

Redbirds San Marcos, Texas, Skyport made quite a splash earlier in October when it sold avgas for two weeks at a buck a gallon. Yet two weeks after the cheap gas experiment ended, flight activity is still up threefold at the airport, according to Redbird CEO Jerry Gregoire. Redbird launched the cheap gas experiment on […]

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Diesel Redhawks: Leasing Program to Take Flight

Just three months after it announced its diesel Redhawk conversion aircraft, Redbird says its finalizing plans to lease the airplane to flight schools on a power-by-the-hour basis and it hopes to buy as many as 30 conversion aircraft by the end of the year. During this weeks Migration training and industry conference in San Marcos, […]

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Are the Millennials GA’s Salvation?

Have you ever noticed how a word you havent heard for awhile all at once starts buzzing into your ears like that mosquito that snuck through the screen door? At Redbirds third annual Migration training conference this week, the word was Millennial. We all know it as the term used to describe the generation born […]

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Video: Redbird’s Game Theory Flight Training Idea

Game theory is gaining favor as a means of training in all sorts of disciplines, and now Redbird wants to try it with aviation. At the company’s third annual Migration training conference in San Marcos, Texas on Tuesday, Redbird’s Jeff Van West explained the new program. It’s currently in the experimental and testing phase but […]

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Podcast: The Long and Short of $1 Avgas

How many pilots will come out for $1 avgas? A lot. Even some who have given up flying. At Redbird’s third annual Migration training conference, Jerry Gregoire debriefed us on the success of Redbird’s recent promotion — and its potential implications for the future of aviation fuel. Duration: File Size: download here

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172 Crash At Nashville Airport Unnoticed For Hours

It took up to six hours for anyone to notice that a Canadian-registered Cessna 172 had crashed and burned at Nashville International Airport, killing the pilot. It appears the pilot of the aircraft may have attempted landing unnannounced at the major airport but details are sketchy.The Tennessean says the aircraft, registered to the Windsor Flying […]

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Better NASA Predictions Could Protect Pilots From Radiation

Professional pilots who fly at high altitudes for business or commercial aviation are exposed to as much radiation as workers in nuclear power plants, and that exposure is climbing as airlines fly polar routes more often, according to NASA. During a typical polar flight, pilots are exposed to the equivalent of two chest X-rays, an […]

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