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Aircraft Information Systems as a Powerful SMS tool

Connected Aviation Today, see below, has published a most informative and extensive article about aviation’s equivalent of the well-known Internet Service Provider, which is known as THE AIRCRAFT INTERFACE DEVICE (AID). CAT’s Baumgarten analyzes its applicability to SAFETY, SUSTAINABILITY, and MAINTENANCE. His assessment of its

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Old and new CVR array

ACSF points to need for CVRs in P23 aircraft- here’s a path

Russ Niles’ report on the recommendation of the Air Charter Safety Foundation (ACSF) that OEMs install cockpit voice recorders in new General Aviation Aircraft. The Foundation explained that the current costs of this important safety equipment make it unaffordable for most small aircraft owners. The back

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Safety First in all sectors and Levels

FAA expands SMS to smaller carriers and Part 21 tickets: FEAR NOT

David Shepardson, the presumptive dean of aviation safety journalists , has written about the FAA’s recent final rule mandating  SAFETY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM be applied to  “organizations that play a critical role in the design, manufacturing, and operation of aircraft (i.e., part 119 certificate holders operating

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Valuable Air Safety Lessons from a JOBY eVTOL accident

Joby Aviation was completing a flight test of its JAS4-2 under Part 91on February 16, 2022, and the EXPERIMENTAL uncrewed eVTOL vehicle suffered a separation of one of its propellors which cascaded into another propellor separating multiple propulsion motor/propeller assemblies and loss of remote pilot

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UA Safety Culture

Does United need to do an external audit?

Below are three articles which report the incidents and regulatory consequences of incidents which United recently experienced. The first explains what restrictions the FAA has imposed in response. Number two story recites the opinions of the UA CEO and three experts. The last includes the

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WHAT IS SAFETY CULTURE

What REALLY is SAFETY CULTURE?

FLIGHT SAFETY FOUNDATION’S DR. SHAHIDI reviewed the safety data for Year 2023, commends the industry for a year without fatalities in international commercial aviation; HOWEVER, he warns: . “COMPLACENCY is a stealthy threat that can erode safety and quality unless it is actively COUNTERED WITH

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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 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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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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AID global link

Aircraft Information Systems as a Powerful SMS tool

Connected Aviation Today, see below, has published a most informative and extensive article about aviation’s equivalent of the well-known Internet Service Provider, which is known as THE AIRCRAFT INTERFACE DEVICE (AID). CAT’s Baumgarten analyzes its

Read More »
UA Safety Culture

Does United need to do an external audit?

Below are three articles which report the incidents and regulatory consequences of incidents which United recently experienced. The first explains what restrictions the FAA has imposed in response. Number two story recites the opinions of

Read More »
WHAT IS SAFETY CULTURE

What REALLY is SAFETY CULTURE?

FLIGHT SAFETY FOUNDATION’S DR. SHAHIDI reviewed the safety data for Year 2023, commends the industry for a year without fatalities in international commercial aviation; HOWEVER, he warns: . “COMPLACENCY is a stealthy threat that can

Read More »
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 »

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

Follow to read our articles here:

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