Recent Updates

We have a home in the Bahamas and fly into Eleuthera. On one of our flights, we heard the following on the CTAF as we were about 25 miles out from our destination: “Rock Sound Traffic, Rock Sound Traffic. Bahamas Air flight 12345 going around. Horse on the runway.” William Coates Cocoa, FL

Who’s Afraid Of A Dead ASI? I could hear the pending screams as I was reading the article. I’m confident the self-appointed expert safety nazis are whipping themselves into a frenzy…I anticipate the storm is already bursting on the phone and email receptionists. (Well, maybe not on the phone. It’s easier to express offense and […]

AVweb‘s weekly news roundup uncovered reports of the winner of the first Air Race 1 event in China, a free webinar for helicopter pilots and sales team member at WildBlue Aircraft. Californian racer Steve Senegal became the first person to win the Air Race 1 China Cup, which was held at Hannan City Airport in […]

Air rescue organization ADAC Luftrettung will be conducting a feasibility study on the use of a manned version of the Volocopter VTOL multicopter in air rescue and emergency service operations, according to an announcement from Volocopter. The project will start with computer simulations and move to research flights within a few months, with a focus […]

Aspen Avionics has issued a mandatory service bulletin identifying how to avoid issues with the repeated inflight system resets recently noted in an FAA Special Airworthiness Information Bulletin (SAIB). As previously reported by AVweb, the resets are occurring in a small number of Aspen Evolution EFD1000 Primary Flight Display (PFD), EFD1000 Multi-Function Display (MFD) and […]

At a follow-up press conference in Indonesia Thursday, accident investigators said they did not claim that a Lion Air 737 MAX 8 was unairworthy before it crashed into the Java Sea on Oct. 29. The investigators said the unairworthy comment applied to the aircraft’s previous flight, during which the 737’s stick shaker activated constantly because […]

Pilatus delivered the first PC-24 configured for medevac missions to the Royal Flying Doctor Service of Australia (RFDS) on Monday. According to Pilatus, the interior of the PC-24 air ambulance is designed to allow fast, flexible modification. Modifications include an electric stretcher, a separate power system for the cabin, dedicated communication systems for the medical […]

Australian authorities are investigating after a sleeping pilot overflew his destination by 30 miles before waking up and turning around. The Vortex Air Navajo was on an early morning flight from Devonport, Tasmania, to King Island, which is between Tasmania and the Australian mainland. The Navajo was on autopilot and assuming a direct track from […]

The FAA has issued a Special Airworthiness Information Bulletin (SAIB) warning pilots of potential display resets in Aspen Evolution EFD1000 Primary Flight Display (PFD), EFD1000 Multi-Function Display (MFD) and EFD500 MFD units. According to the SAIB, affected systems will repeatedly reset themselves at five- to ten-minute intervals, resulting in the temporary loss of all flight […]

Piaggio Aerospace, which is wholly owned by Mubadala, based in Abu Dhabi, says it “is no longer financially sustainable” and has entered “extraordinary administration,” a type of insolvency procedure that will allow the company to restructure its debt. In a statement, the company cited “continued uncertainty and current market conditions” and said “the key fundamental […]