Virgin America Remixes The Safety Video: Airline’s New Safety Video Set To Song And Dance How many times have you been on board an aircraft, the flight attendants request your attention and you tune out…
ARTICLE: Flight crews train to survive all kinds of aircraft emergencies at Long Beach facilities How many times have you tried to maintain your attention when the flight attendant on your commercial flight recites the…
ARTICLE: Aviation Professionals To Gather In Wichita For Bombardier Safety Standdown Routines are, in general, a good practice; repetition can reinforce the right technique. On the other hand doing the same thing over and over…
ARTICLE: OSHA orders back pay for pilot fired after emergency landing. Redundant regulations are a problem – the regulated needs to figure out which set of rules are applicable and/or preeminent. OSHA has gained the…
ARTICLE: Former UPS worker says planes allowed to fly with safety issues Perhaps it is too much to expect that a reporter can discern what is significant and what is not in a complicated safety…
ARTICLE: Cylinder-removal AD would increase costs, decrease safety The FAA has issued a proposed Airworthiness Directive for certain Airmotive Engineering Corp. replacement parts manufacturer approval (PMA) cylinder assemblies marketed by Engine Components International Division (ECi),…
ARTICLE: Anne Harlan / Hughes Tech Center research saved lives in crash There are a lot of FAA employees who quietly do their jobs in relative obscurity-no Hill testimony, no press release or no specific…
The FAA very wisely recently changed the Risk Matrix in FAA Order 5200.11 to be consistent with FAA Order 8040.4A. The internal FAA policy statements apply SMS standards to airports (ARP), air traffic (ATO), Aviation…