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General aviation advocacy groups have been working with the FAA to change the way light aircraft are certified, ditching the traditional Part 23 process and replacing it with an industry-consensus-standards approach. Greg Bowles of GAMA has been a leader in that effort, and he spoke with AVweb’s Mary Grady about the progress made in Washington […]
When a de Havilland DHC-3 Otter crashed shortly after takeoff in Soldotna, Alaska, on Sunday morning, killing all 10 people on board, there were no eyewitnesses, no video and no data recorders on board the aircraft, NTSB investigators said this week. “It does make [the investigation] more difficult,” NTSB member Earl Weener said at a […]
The FAA, manufacturers and GA advocates have been working to change the federal rules that govern certification for GA aircraft, and this week a bill was passed by a House committee that sets a December 2015 deadline for those changes to take effect. The Small Airplane Revitalization Act of 2013, passed on Wednesday by the […]
First officers who fly for passenger and cargo airlines now will be required to hold an ATP certificate and an aircraft type rating, the FAA said on Wednesday, although several exemptions are available. The final rule has been posted on the FAA website (PDF), and soon will be published officially in the Federal Register. Currently, […]
The instructor pilot in the cockpit of the Asiana 777 that crashed in San Francisco on Saturday was acting as an instructor in a 777 for the first time, the NTSB said in a news conference on Tuesday. The captain at the controls, it was previously reported, was flying his first approach in the 777 […]
On Monday, the Air Line Pilots Association released a statement critical of the NTSB’s handling of the Asiana crash investigation. “ALPA is stunned by the amount of detailed operational data from on-board recorders released by the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) this soon into the investigation,” ALPA said. “The amount of data released publicly during […]
The NTSB said on Monday morning that interviews would begin by the end of the day with the four pilots in the crew of the Asiana 777 that crashed in San Francisco on Saturday, killing two girls and injuring dozens of passengers. In a press briefing in San Francisco, officials said investigators are beginning to […]
Asiana Airlines said on Monday the pilot at the controls when a 777crashedat San Francisco Saturday, killing two girls and injuring dozens of passengers, was in training on the 777, and was landing the airplane at SFO for the first time. The pilot is an experienced captain with a total time over 10,000 hours, but […]
During the ’80s, while with Mugu Approach, a controller asked an aircraft “to state position.” Pilot came back: “Fiscally conservative. Socially, somewhat liberal. Two miles west of Point Dume.” Greg Andrewsvia e-mail
AVweb’s “FBO of the Week” ribbon goes toCirrus Aviationat McMinnville Municipal Airport (KMMV) in McMinnville, Oregon). ReaderDaryl Medd(and several other members of the organization) told us how Cirrus Aviation stepped up to make the 2013 Cessna Pilots Society gathering a smooth, trouble-free celebration: The fine folks at Cirrus Aviation were there making sure all the […]
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