Flight Safety

The captain of United Airlines Flight 1603 from Houston to Seattle died after suffering an apparent heart attack during the flight Thursday evening.We got a man down, multiple news outlets quoted audio released by LiveATC.net.Chest compressions going on right now. Im not sure too much right now the status. The first officer diverted the Boeing […]

Travelers in Alaska who relied on an iPhone app to lead them to the Fairbanks airport have driven onto the field and across an active runway at least twice in the last three weeks, the Alaska Dispatch reported this week. The iPhone directions led users onto the airport property, and onto Taxiway Bravo. The app […]

For more than a year, Continental Motors has been experimenting with a new flight training center based in an upscale mall in Spanish Fort, Alabama. AVweb recently visited the center and interviewed Gloria Liu for a briefing on the training works. view on YouTube

With a new federal fiscal year about to launch on Oct. 1, FAA officials are facing a $700 million budget gap, according to Bloomberg News. A new round of automatic cuts will take effect in the new budget year and may have more impact than they did this year, sources told Bloomberg, citing briefings with […]

While flying IFR with a student in the Connecticut air space, we overheard a pilot with a Deep Southern accent ask the Bradley controller:“Will you let us go direct to ‘HEY DO’ today?” The controller replied:“We call that ‘HADUX’ up here.” The pilot then answered:“We thought it sounded Cajun.” Multiple laughter was heard on controller’s […]

Letter of the Week:Fly the Airplane The old saying of “I can type at 80 words a minute but I can’t fly” applies, in my opinion, to a high percentage of airline pilots around the world. Belatedly, in April of this year, the FAA issued a safety alert for operators, the purpose of which was […]

Every year the National Transportation Safety Board allows organizations outside the federal government to enroll students in aircraft accident investigation school. This is not a watered-down version; rather, its the same course provided to new investigators. The vast majority of students are representatives of entities whose employees, products, or services are likely to be involved […]

The Society of Aviation and Flight Educators (SAFE) says the FAA should be looking in pilots’ logbooks to help it curtail the GA accident rate. The organization told a recent meeting on the FAA’s data collection process that the agency should “start collecting information on pilot recurrent safety training in addition to the data it […]

The NTSB Thursday announced it has issued a Final Rule applicable to the aviation certificate enforcement appeals process and that it is also issuing a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking to extend one of that rule’s benefits to pilots involved in emergency enforcement cases. The Final Rule allows pilots subjected to certificate enforcement to appeal to […]

China is expecting to lead the region’s demand for new commercial pilots as it takes delivery of more than 5,500 aircraft over the next two decades, and its current pilot population may already be stretching work hours to meet demand, so changes are likely coming. China’s civil aviation had a shortfall of 10,000 pilots in […]