The two recent fines imposed by FAA against Alaska Airlines and Horizon Airlines, raise the question posed above. All of those aircraft are worthless if one piece of paper is in disarray: the FAA certificate. What does a company do to preserve that asset?
Any FAA certificate is THE quintessential document for an air carrier and any other entity with aviation safety authority. In the FAA lexicon, the word “REVOKE” connotes death, the termination of the company’s ability to…
It is common usage to call the paper upon which your FAA authority depends as your “ticket”. That jargon understates its value; for that certificate is written on “parchment” more valuable than any other asset…
If given a survey of what they hate most about being a line maintenance worker, a shop supervisor, the manager of a hanger, the MX trainer or the SVP of maintenance, they would all with…
The sUAS rule had a seven year (plus) gestation period, clearly has more than one author/parent and was born in a 195 page package. The commentary from a representative group of stakeholders, other aviation associations…
As usual, the professionals at ARSA know what issues deserve objection and which should be ignored; they, too, have listened to the GEICO/Kenny Loggins advertisement too many times. The below story is an excellent example…
The below article tells a tale of the European Union’s distribution of millions of Euro’s to build airports throughout the continent. The author relates how the funds have resulted in empty structures. The countries, which…
On March 6, 2014 NTSB Administrative Law Judge Patrick G. Geraghty became a hero to the global UAS/UAV/RPAS/drone community. For on that day, he issued FAA v. Pirker which found that the Administrator could not…