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The FAA last week formally proposed new rules designed to bring its rotorcraft certification standards into “harmonization” with existing European standards and proposed Canadian regulations. The new rules, found in a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM), amend the FAA’s existing one-engine inoperative (OEI) definitions and type certification standards for 30-second OEI, two-minute OEI and 30-minute […]

Organizers behind the European Business Aviation Convention & Exhibition (EBACE 2007) — the European Business Aviation Association (EBAA) and the National Business Aviation Association (NBAA) — yesterday announced Judith Moreton, managing director of Bombardier Skyjet International, and Mark Wilson, chief executive of the British Business and General Aviation Association, will receive European Business Aviation Awards […]

Gulfstream Aerospace last week said it is celebrating the fifth anniversary of its Airborne Product Support (APS) service — kind of a AAA card for Gulfstream operators — and what the company says is the first-of-its-kind airborne aircraft maintenance and repair support program. Since the program officially launched on May 6, 2002, Gulfstream has completed […]

Four business aviation consulting firms this week announced allying themselves under an umbrella organization known as ACCESS Alliance. The newly formed group — founded by Alliance, Aviation Personnel International (API), Waypoint Partners, Gray Stone Associates and Jet Perspectives — is based on a business model allowing any one member to expand their consulting services from […]

A new product resulting from last years merger between CharterX and Wyvern Consulting was unveiled yesterday at the Corporate Aviation Safety Seminar (CASS) in Tucson, Ariz. The seminar, hosted by the Flight Safety Foundation and the National Business Aviation Association, saw CharterX/Wyvern announce their new PASS program, an acronym for Pilot and Aircraft Safety Survey, […]

Pilots at fractional operator Flight Options, a subsidiary of the Raytheon Company and not part of its recent civil aviation assets sale, are reacting angrily to their employer’s new requirement for them to gain Canadian approval for expedited entry into that country. According to the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, whose Local 1108 represents the nearly […]

Everywhere one looks these days companies and organizations are positively bullish about business aviation’s economic prospects. The latest glowing forecast comes this week from the Northern Virginia-based Teal Group, an aerospace and defense industry consulting and analysis firm. Richard L. Aboulafia, vice president of analysis for the Teal Group, this week released his firm’s industry […]

Avidyne has issued a “Mandatory Service Bulletin” (MSB) regarding its “Release 7 upgrade” due in the third quarter for Entegra primary flight displays. The MSB responds to some pilots’ apparent interim action of using the displays in combination with Garmin GNS430 units upgraded to WAAS-capable 430W, though the devices are not presently compatible, according to […]

Columbia Aircraft this week started to call back workers who were furloughed in March, the company said on Monday. “Essentially, we’ve spent the past six weeks cleaning house on our production line, upgrading tooling and implementing a number of lean enterprise practices to enhance efficiency,” said Columbia vice president of manufacturing Chris Redgrave. The returning […]

A Philippines air force UH-1H Huey was carrying four people over the central island of Cebu when it crashed April 28 on a public street with nylon kite string entangled below its main rotor. Seven people on the ground were killed, as were two of the helicopter’s crew. Lieutenant General Horacio Tolentino said a captain […]