All articles by David Learmount – Page 28
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Flutter break-up confirmed as cause of Grob G180 test crash
The Grob G180A business jet prototype that crashed fatally during a demonstration flight in 2006 went out of control when aerodynamic flutter developed in...
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NewsMystery Citation crash revives calls for recorders on business jets
The pilots of a Cessna Citation 500 that crashed fatally near Biggin Hill in the UK in 2008 soon after take-off had been misled by unidentified vibration...
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Europe struggles to rationalise ash policies
The atmospheric volcanic ash densities cleared as safe for flight in UK and Irish airspace have been officially doubled.
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The UK Civil Aviation Authority's stage 2 ash parameters
The UK and Irish aviation authorities, with airspace closer to Iceland's volcanic activity than anywhere else in Europe, have doubled the allowable concentration...
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NewsPolish presidential flight crew ignored low-visibility warnings before the crash
The flightcrew of the Polish air force Tupolev Tu-154M that crashed at Smolensk, Russia on 10 April had ignored repeated warnings that the visibility in...
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Criminalisation of air accidents: the solutions may be forged in Europe
The debate about how to protect confidential safety reporting without fettering the law appears to be maturing, and Europe has a chance to lead the way
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UK CAA removes buffer zone around ash cloud
At midnight on 11 May the UK and Irish aviation authorities removed the arbitrary 60nm (111km) safety buffer zone around airspace where the ash cloud is...
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UK CAA removes buffer zone around ash cloud
Effective midnight last night, the UK Civil Aviation Authority and Irish Aviation Authority have removed the arbitrary 60nm safety buffer zone around airspace...
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EBACE: Business aviation leaders predict hesitant recovery
A recovery for business aviation has started, but should not be regarded as stable until 2012 and will not take place uniformly throughout the sector.
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EBACE: EBAA surveys pilot work patterns for flight time limitations
European Business Aviation Association chief executive Brian Humphries warns that if business aviation does not develop its own fatigue risk management system...
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EBACE: Business aviation busts safety limits
Business aviation's safety weaknesses are landings and "level busts", safety experts revealed at an EBACE seminar today.
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EBACE: Universal goes public with its emissions trading scheme 'learning process'
Universal Weather and Aviation's regulatory services team (stand 7030) has gone public - free of charge - with what it has been learning about the European Union emissions trading scheme
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EBACE: Business aviation traffic is recovering fastest
Business aviation traffic growth in March exceeded the recovery for aviation as a whole by a factor of more than 10, according to Eurocontrol figures.
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Working week: at the Aerotoxic Association
John Hoyte lost his medical category as a BAE Systems 146 captain in 1989, a victim of aerotoxic syndrome, which left him seriously neurologically damaged. He founded the Aerotoxic Association in June 2007 and set up a website at www.aerotoxic.org
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UPDATED: Volcanic ash closes Irish air space again
Irish lower airspace was closed at 0600 GMT because of stronger eruptions at Iceland’s Eyjafjallajokull volcano, causing the cancellation of all flights into and out of Ireland’s airports.
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EBACE: Baffled by the EU ETS?
If you're baffled by the complexities of the new European Union compulsory emissions trading scheme, Universal Weather and Aviation (stand 7030) has a free,...
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EBACE: Business aviation leads safety recovery
Bombardier's Safety Standdown at EBACE this year has ramped up its syllabus to reflect changing needs and a broadening demand.
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RAeS calls for better balance between accident investigation and the judicial system
Air accidents will increasingly be treated as criminal events unless aviation authorities can muster a global push to achieve a better balance between the roles of accident investigators and the judiciary, according to a London aviation law specialist.
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EBACE: Business jet operators fear unworkable emissions trading regulations
Bureaucracy could scupper a simplified inexpensive system designed to help business aviation comply with the European Emissions Trading Scheme
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Europe's volcanic ash response: was it adequate?
When Iceland's Eyjafjallajökull volcano began erupting on 14 April, European aviation safety authorities were faced with an unprecedented dilemma and took...