ICAO says that its Members need safety alignment due to COVID-19 List of needs is long and includes SMS for Civil Aviation Authorities EASA will act; FAA does not have $; USTDA to help? Assessing…
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Africa Aviation Safety- not so good African Aviation Growth- could be great European Union finances needed ATC upgrade Below is a most encouraging article about upgrading Africa’s Air Traffic Control technology. The ICAO safety statistics…
White House sends Vishal Amin to India as top FAA rep Washington: Vishal S. Amin has become the first Indian-American diplomat serving as the Senior Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) regional representative for South Asia. Based out…
The People’s Republic of China (PRC) has strategic designs on the global airline manufacturing market. It is developing a number of aircraft through technical problems and over/around the intellectual property laws of nations with more…
The saga of the Boeing Max 8 grounding and now the renewed determination of airworthiness has received as much attention as any aviation safety issue for decades. Given the voracious appetite of reporters for the…
Pakistan International crash pilot error; pilot training? Pakistan CAA determines that 150 PK pilots have fraudulent licenses PCAA fires 5 senior civil servants involved in licensing ICAO, EASA and FAA all found PCAA meeting standards…
The Green Party, the EU/EASA and to a degree, ICAO, have made demands and set expectations about aviation’s contribution to the reduction of CO2 , as explained by the Tech Explore article: “Aviation accounts for…
ICAO’s USOAP 20th anniversary of ACTIVITIES- time to RETHINK? Activities v. Actions Audits at a Point in Time v. Continuous Collaboration Duplicative, even contradictory, Audits Single, Consolidated, Consistent, Cooperative In a self-congratulatory press release (see…