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.
My Great Biplane Adventure
Two thousand miles in an open-cockpit biplane. Richard Bach did it. Steven Coonts did it. Clearly nothing that I can’t handle! Never mind that Bach and Coonts did their biplane treks in thesummertime and carefully picked their weather. My journey wouldbe in November…the only time I could find four free days ina row to make […]
Report from the Aviation Safety Initiative Review: New Orleans – December 6-7, 1995
Introduction: The “Aviation Safety Initiative Review” in New Orleans(December 6-7, 1995) demonstrated the aviation community’s uncompromisinglong-term commitment to a safety standard of “zero accidents”.The two-day, industry-led meeting brought together the nation’saviation safety experts from industry, labor and government tobuild upon the initiatives identified earlier this year and toset the safety agenda for 1996. An updated […]
The FAA’s Anthony J. Broderick Talks About the Bob Hoover Affair
Interview by Aviation Consumer, 27-Oct-95 FAA Participants: Also Present: Aviation Consumer: The first area that I’d like to explore with you is the situation where Bob Hoover has recently been granted a special issuance of his second class medical certificate. Pilots are certainly happy that he has a U.S. medical again that will permit him […]
Anthony J. Broderick
Anthony J. Broderick was named Associate Administrator forRegulation and Certification of the Federal Aviation Administration in July1988, after 17 years of government service. As head of the agency’s Regulation and Certification complex, he is principally responsible for: certification, production approval, and continued airworthiness of aircraft; certification of pilots, mechanics, and others in safety-related positions; certification […]
The Separation Game
It’s sometimes difficult for pilots to understand why air trafficcontrollers do the things they do. They often reject our requestsfor altitude changes, vector us away from our destinations, oroccasionally request what seem like unnecessary speed adjustments.These delays are bad enough when IFR in real weather but they’redownright aggravating when you’re IFR in good weather. If […]
A Controller’s View of Emergencies
The FAA hasn’t done a very good job of making it easy for pilots and controllers to say “I’ve got a problem here and I need some help right now.”Some pilots are under the mistaken impression that controllers are cops, just waiting to violate them for the slightest transgression of the FARs. And even if […]
Nightmare at Oakland Center
FAA tiger teams are still trying to sort out exactly what happenedin the wake of an unprecedented, 45-minute power outage that shutdown all radar and radio communications at Oakland Center on Wednesdaymorning, August 9th. All ARTCCs are equipped with three independent sources of powerfor critical equipment. Each includes an emergency diesel generator,plus a bank of […]
NTSB Accident Statistics for 1994
The NTSB has released preliminary statistics covering aircraftaccidents during 1994. 1994 Aviation Fatalities FATALITIES 1994 1993Private Planes725 740Airlines237 1Commuter25 24Airtaxi63 42Foreign, unregistered21 16Total 1071 823 1994 Airline and Commuter Fatalities PART 121 (Airlines) DATE CARRIER AIRCRAFT LOCATION FATALITIESJul 2 US AirDC-9-31Charlotte, NC 37Sep 8 US AirB737-3B7 Pittsburgh,PA 132Oct 31 Am. EagleATR72-212 Roselawn,IN 68 Total: 237 […]
