Briefing April 2023
FAA Studying Unleaded Gas Transition
The FAA temporarily stopped its investigation into whether Santa Clara County in California is violating grant agreements by refusing to...
Briefing March 2023
New Misfueling Guidance Issued
Transition to unleaded aviation gasoline led the National Air Transportation Association to issue new guidance on preventing misfueling aircraft. Misfueling most...
Briefing February 2023
Single Pilot Plan Panned
The leader of the International Air Transport Association (IATA) says he thinks it will be decades before single-pilot passenger airline operations...
Briefing: January 2023
Pilots and Emotional Intelligence
Pilots tend to have lower emotional intelligence scores than the rest of the population and researchers are looking at what that...
Briefing: December 2022
Pandemic Creates BizAv Boom
The post-pandemic hangover has turned out to be a tonic for business jet manufacturers who are tapping a new market created...
Briefing: November 2022
FAA Rejects 750-Hour FO Exemption
The FAA has denied Republic Airways’ request that graduates of its in-house training program called Leadership in Flight Training (LIFT)...
Briefing: October 2022
COMMERCIAL ACCIDENT RATE DROPS
The global accident rate for commercial flights dropped by 9.8 percent in 2021 over 2020 according to stats released by the...
Briefing: September 2022
NO PILOT SHORTAGE SAYS ALPA
The Air Line Pilots Association says there is no pilot shortage, but instead is just a shortage of talent in...
Briefing: August 2022
New NOTAM Guidance Issued
The FAA has issued new guidance to airport operators on how and when to issue a NOTAM and it appears to...
Briefing: July 2022
1500-HOUR EXEMPTION REQUESTED
Republic Airlines asked the FAA for an exemption to the requirement of a minimum of 1500 flight hours for airline pilots. The...
Briefing: June 2022
Pilot Fatigue Flagged
Pilot and flight attendant unions warn that the biggest airline safety risk is fatigue caused by personnel shortages and the lingering effects...
Briefing: May 2022
TEXTRON BUYS PIPISTREL
In an announcement that surprised many industry watchers, Textron revealed it was buying Pipistrel Aircraft, a Slovenian company that has been at...