What’s your Top 5 for Safety Improvements?
Linked below is a very interesting OpEd piece authored by Eric Auxier, an A320 captain with over 21,000 hours. He writes a blog and has authored a book. The Captain has listed below what he…
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NBAA, NATA and IBAC extend SMS to Fixed Base Operators
The National Business Aviation Association (NBAA) published an article in its September/October 2014 Business Aviation Insider about the creation of an Safety Management System tool to verify that Fixed Base Operators are compliant to that…
Aviation Safety Policy Decisions are Complicated
Expertise and informed commentary are being diluted in this age of social media. Journalists historically used to take the time to research and understand all sides of an issue. Not so today. The below “article”…
Drone News: Much Ado About Something!!!
The release of the FAA sUAS NPRM has generated a lot of relevant information. Here’s a sampling on some of the pertinent news: A. The NPRM has been published. The proposal was announced on a…
Reading between the lines of FAA’s sUAS NPRM, 2nd Iteration thoughts
The magnitude of the FAA’s task in creating a system of regulations for sUAS operations is unparalleled in its history. In one document, the agency is setting rules for aircraft certification, pilot certification, the ownership…
Some Independent Thoughts on the value of ADS-B to General Aviation
Duncan Aviation, one of the GA/BA segments’ most competent MROs, has issued a “Straight Talk Book” about ADS-B. This epistle of ADS-B information, from a competent, neutral source, may help in the debate over this…
UAS lands on White House grounds and gets POTUS’ attention; will that expedite or slow the FAA NPRM
The serpentine path from initiation to finalization of major policy statements moves at an uneven pace, but once in a while some seemingly random event escalates the progress of an NPRM. The recent accidental landing…
UAS NEWS: the gracious, the dubious and the rapacious!
The national media seem as attentive to the UAS stories as a male sting-less bee to his queen. The stories range from constantly criticizing to the dilatoriness of the FAA, effervescing about economic opportunities, obsessing…