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Secretary Buttigieg: A BLIP is not a BLIP.

Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, at a Press conference introducing his FY 2025 FAA budget, repeated the mantra used by air traffic privatizations proponents (largely Republican), that “A BLIP IS A BLIP” or in his terms that based on solely on raw operations numbers that business

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all modes of accidents plus TV coverage

Aviation Safety Culture works, and Media Bias distorts the record;

so says academic research paper!!! In reviewing a tremendous analysis of SAFETY CULTURES across all transportation modes, these astute observations made by Roslyn Layton ,a Senior Fellow at George Mason University’s Antonin Scalia Law School: “…AIR TRAVEL DEATHS have PLUMMETED BY TWO-THIRDS, even though total miles

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2023 Aviation's Safest Year

IATA’s 2023 Safety Report- good news

Meta Data and powerful analytics are contributing to enhanced aviation safety. The numbers become more powerful as the volume and frequency of the information increases. Seemingly insignificant incidents occurring at different airlines demand attention when the events and their specifics are aggregated. International Air Transport

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Piper M700 FURY

What can be learned from Piper Fury and Part 23 revision?

A long tortuous trail towards allowing greater innovation in developing and certificating Normal, Utility, Acrobatic, and Commuter Category Airplanes has been in place for 10 years. Does the Piper announcement of its new, innovative Piper M700 FURY (see below for detailed technical description by Piper) signal

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safety awareness assembly

EASA’s useful 10 Key Risk Areas

Vigilance must be top of mind 24/7/365 and maintaining such a high level of awareness is difficult. Normal daily responsibilities and the usual mental tendency to wonder are examples of how that focus can be lost. Reminders, in particular authoritative statements are a useful tool

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ASIAS images

FAA and NTSB reinforce the VALUE of aviation safety data!!!

Two prominent announcements emphasized DATA as the most critical element towards improving AVIATION SAFETY. FIRST, FAA ADMINISTRATOR MIKE WHITAKER called Airlines CEOs to remind them the value of ASIAS, SMS, FOQA, SAS, VDRP, ASRS, ATSAP, among others. The value of data-sharing has been validated by

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Quote from Winston Churchill and UL certificate.

History has an ANSWER for FAA’s 3rd party inspections

David Shepardson and Rajesh Kumar Singh, two highly regarded aviation journalists have authored a piece asking a timely question-Could a standalone non-profit be the answer to FAA oversight of Boeing? They then question a number of experts to opine on their provocative query. Though good

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SMS shield

Canada updating its SMS, should the FAA start a similar review?

Transport Canada Civil Aviation has announced that it will “update” its safety management system citing this risk assessment tool’s birthdate as 2005.  Our neighbor to the North recognizes that its current framework needs realignment with evolving ICAO nuances as well as other CAAs best practices.

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Daily Aviation Insight by FAA Experts

Published daily since 2009, the JDA Journal has earned a reputation as a source for concise, unbiased, no nonsense, non-jargon, in depth analysis and incisive commentary on the latest news and important current issues of interest to the aviation community. No other daily aviation journal is as thought provoking, insightful, interesting and sometimes even fun to read at no cost, without advertisements and without overt or subtle marketing messages.

JDA Journal is a forum for JDA Aviation staff and Associates to post their insights on aviation Safety.

Our head writer, Sandy Murdock, was former FAA Chief Counsel and FAA Deputy Administrator. Also NBAA’s former Sr. VP Administration and General Counsel.

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A Blip is not a Blip.

Secretary Buttigieg: A BLIP is not a BLIP.

Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, at a Press conference introducing his FY 2025 FAA budget, repeated the mantra used by air traffic privatizations proponents (largely Republican), that “A BLIP IS A BLIP” or in his terms

Read More »
2023 Aviation's Safest Year

IATA’s 2023 Safety Report- good news

Meta Data and powerful analytics are contributing to enhanced aviation safety. The numbers become more powerful as the volume and frequency of the information increases. Seemingly insignificant incidents occurring at different airlines demand attention when

Read More »
safety awareness assembly

EASA’s useful 10 Key Risk Areas

Vigilance must be top of mind 24/7/365 and maintaining such a high level of awareness is difficult. Normal daily responsibilities and the usual mental tendency to wonder are examples of how that focus can be

Read More »

2 POSTS A DAY — OVER 2,500 ARTICLES

JDA Solutions Journal:
Daily Aviation Insight by FAA Experts

Published daily since 2009, the JDA Journal has earned a reputation as a source for concise, unbiased, no nonsense, non-jargon, in depth analysis and incisive commentary on the latest news and important current issues of interest to the aviation community. No other daily aviation journal is as thought provoking, insightful, interesting and sometimes even fun to read at no cost, without advertisements and without overt or subtle marketing messages.

JDA Journal is a forum for JDA Aviation staff and Associates to post their insights on aviation Safety.

Our head writer, Sandy Murdock, was former FAA Chief Counsel and FAA Deputy Administrator. Also NBAA’s former Sr. VP Administration and General Counsel.

Sandy Murdock 2023

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