Many corporate operators have placed their aircraft on another company’s Part 135 certificate to avoid having to obtain their own, yet at the same time collecting charter revenues. However, operation of passenger-carrying flights for hire…
DOT data shows more than 600 incidents of passengers stuck on the tarmac 3 hours or more during this year’s first seven months. There are more than 87,000 flights per day in the skies in…
Flying on a commercial carrier has never been safer simply because the FAA in partnership (no partnership is not a bad word) with U.S. air carriers go beyond simply ensuring regulatory compliance. Yet, there are…
Recent Congressional and NTSB hearings on the December 2008 Colgan accident have turned up the heat on regional airline safety, and the FAA is moving quickly to enhance existing pilot fatigue regulations. On the other…
There has been a great deal of public scrutiny of the Air Transportation Oversight System (ATOS) system. After a 30-year career in safety both at the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and as a safety consultant,…
A positive and dynamic safety culture is a prerequisite for implementing a Safety Management System (SMS). Before any organization, (airport, air traffic organization, air carrier, helicopter operators, manufacturer or repair station) can implement an effective…
After working at the FAA for more than 35 years and then as an aerospace consultant for the past 15 years, I have seen a great deal of change in the aerospace industry: Some good,…