The US Department of Transportation’s Office of Inspector General (OIG) is a Watchdog organization established by Congress to audit the Department and its modes for compliance with legislated mandates. One such mandate was labeled as AIRPORT REVENUE DIVERSION. As the cover image suggests, the owners of these expensive infrastructures see them as CASH REGISTERS like…
Big news in Canada: First, a dramatic reveal that the international civil aviation body that assess civil aviation authorities has found its safety organization to have a disappointing evaluation. Second, a responsive report from the airlines that the critique was not an examination of their operations. (1000% accurate, but one of the findings may flow…
Aviation is experiencing the most disruptive change since 1903. Lift, power/energy, navigation, real time airworthiness information—to name a few. Two articles, copied below, are evidence of differing attitudes about the possibility that the current commercial cockpit crew may be reduced to a single pilot and eventually an AI robot. The first article is an…
Below is a superb statement by Peter Kearney, Chief Executive of AirNav Ireland on human error in his commercial company owned by the State, which has responsibility for the provision of air traffic management, aeronautical communications, and related services in Irish controlled airspace. Can the US Air Traffic Organization learn from this peer air navigation…
FlightGlobal’s Jon Hemmerdinger writes about the recent FAA Type Certification Authorization for the Boeing 737 Max 10, permission to begin flight tests with FAA inspectors aboard. The author also cites Boeing’s existing LOGBOOK OF MORE THAN 400 FLIGHTS AND NEARLY 1,000 HOURS (about 1 and a half months) in the air of flight time since…
NATA has announced that it has formed a partnership with the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma (CNO) to mature- “AAM/UAM EDUCATION and adoption with the EXCHANGE OF EXPERTISE AND INFORMATION through committee engagement and collaboration on business, outreach, and event opportunities. This strategic partnership is invaluable in the development of a complex transportation system using innovative…
NATA has announced that it has formed a partnership with the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma (CNO) to mature- “AAM/UAM EDUCATION and adoption with the EXCHANGE OF EXPERTISE AND INFORMATION through committee engagement and collaboration on business, outreach, and event opportunities. This strategic partnership is invaluable in the development of a complex transportation system using innovative…
FlightGlobal and StarAlliance have ferreted out an important, underpublicized study that concluded that airlines should install passenger restraints for front-row seats because its tests found that lap seat-belts alone could result in severe injuries in an emergency landing. Reports indicate that the FAA issued on 08/01/2023 a Safety Bulletin (google global search and search of FAA website) did not discover a public copy of this alert. The warning, entitled, “Safer…
ACCESS FOR THE HANDICAPPED HAS MOVED AT A GLACIER-LIKE PACE—the Air Carrier Access Act (ACAA), 49 U.S.C. 41705, was enacted in 1986. Its mandate is a prohibition against discrimination in airline service based on disability. This Bill of Rights for the Handicapped was VERY BROAD in its definition of what changes must be issued by…
The countries in which the world’s primary civil aerospace manufacturers have their headquarters have sanctioned Russia for Putin’s invasion of Ukraine. Though international restrictions are frequently imposed, it is rare that they have a significant impact. The civil aircraft embargo is exacting a toll on the Россия or the Russian Federation or more accurately the…
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