NEWS ARTICLE: Meet the artist who designed your certificate To most pilots and other users of the FAA’s services, the individuals, who perform all of the tasks so necessary to make the US skies the…
NEWS ARTICLE: Committee Hearing to Focus on Aviation Safety Congressional oversight of the FAA’s safety function is all too often an opportunity to grab headlines by sensational statements that are not always grounded in the…
NEWS ARTICLE: Can A380s Safely Fly Steep Approaches to Heathrow? Emirates President Tim Clark proposes that the A-380 be authorized to approach London Heathrow at a descent rate greater than the current allowable parameters and…
News Article: Airports Develop Plans For Diversions, Tarmac Delays Take a strong consumer advocate with a substantial voter/consumer base, add an airline industry with a less-than-responsive record, throw in an incident with bad facts and…
News Article: Aviation Week This article reports encouraging news of original research by General Electric, Pratt & Whitney and Rolls Royce as to the accumulation of ice crystals in engine cores. The three companies have…
News Article: Airports rescue and restore murals While aviation art is not a standard topic of this blog, as frequent flyers we appreciate the efforts to protect the many beautiful murals that were the standard…
NEWS ARTICLE: CEO Tony Tyler cites four areas where policy efforts are needed to ensure aviation’s financial sustainability IATA’s Tony Tyler speech, delivered at a recent ICAO seminar, conveyed several messages, one most clear and…
Syllabus: FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION, ET AL., PETITIONERS v. STANMORE CAWTHON COOPER – ON WRIT OF CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT The pilot in this case contracted HIV and then…