ARTICLE: Fatigue Risk Management System is Preferred Method to Address Rest The issue of flight duty and rest has been a contentious issue for decades. Whether it is the circadian effects of operating on the…
ARTICLE: Pilot’s texting contributed to fatal copter crash, NTSB says Aviation accidents are rarely the result of a single error. NTSB findings of probable cause have frequently listed a number of factors which contribute to…
Research: Logbook Hours Don’t Always Make Safer Pilots Matthew Thomas and Melanie Todd completed a study in 2012 to examine the relationship between a pilot’s flight hours and their performance. In their report “Flight Hours and…
ARTICLE: Inclusion of Flight Attendants in ASAP adds to Systematic Safety Approach Though not the first such safety program with flight attendants, the adoption of an Aviation Safety Program by the FAA, US Airways management, and…
ARTICLE: High school’s college aviation program takes flight Aviation’s future will only be as robust as the human talent being educated by our secondary and college institutions. The successes of AIA, GAMA and Roll Royce…
PRESS RELEASE: FAA Proposes $275,000 Civil Penalty Against Pinnacle Airlines Inc. Pinnacle just received a letter indicating that it “…failed to follow instructions in the approved aircraft maintenance manual when they removed and replaced the aircraft’s…
ARTICLE: Aviation Safety: What Has Become of Us? In 1903 the Wright Brothers and especially Orville, as the first to pilot powered flight, were literally connected to their aircraft at Kitty Hawk. Over the next…
ARTICLE: FAA’s medical institute marks 50 years The Civil Aerospace Medical Institute, located at Oklahoma City’s Mike Monroney Aeronautical Center, trains pilots and flight crews on crash survival. While the UAV industry is working hard…