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…
ARTICLE: Rethinking Stall Training The FAA and aviation safety organizations are pushing hard for improvements in pilot training and specifically stall recovery training. Unfortunately the last commercial air carrier accident, which was a stall related…
ARTICLE: FAA and Airlines Should Standardize In-Flight Medical Emergency Protocol and Reporting Have you ever been on a flight when an in-flight medical emergency happened? While most of the flights we take are uneventful, the…
ARTICLE: Charter Operators Face Grounding Over Training Issue One of the difficulties of regulating a complex, diverse, dynamic industry is that the regulators must communicate to the regulated what the rules are. Their bibles include…
ARTICLE: Airlines Face Acute Shortage of Pilots Federal regulations that go into effect next summer requiring newly hired pilots to have a minimum of 1,500 hours of prior flight experience, six times the current minimum,…