All articles by David Learmount – Page 37
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Alteon's first multi-crew licence graduates join the line in China
Boeing's training company Alteon says the first multi-crew pilot licence (MPL) graduates of the course it devised with the Civil Aviation Safety Authority...
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NewsUK approves its first multi-crew pilot licence course at Flight Training Europe for Flybe
Starting in late June, six ab initio trainee pilots chosen by UK-based regional carrier Flybe will begin a 60-week multi-crew pilot licence (MPL), from which...
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Federal prosecutions launched against Platinum Jet Management staff
US Federal charges have been brought against five people connected with Platinum Jet Management (PJM) a business flight chartering company that has ceased...
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Europe prepares to boost business and general aviation
The European Union must recognise the importance to the community of business and general aviation, and take action to ensure that it can operate without...
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FAA releases recording of ATC exchanges during Hudson River ditching
The US Federal Aviation Administration has released the air traffic control recordings and transcripts of the whole US Airways Hudson River ditching incident...
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EASA under fire over pilot flight time limitations
Pilot organisation the European Cockpit Association (ECA) has criticised the European Aviation Safety Agency for its proposal to transcribe existing "hard...
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European traffic growth stops and is set to decline in 2009
European traffic growth in 2008 as a whole virtually stopped, Eurocontrol says, even though in the early part of the year apparently healthy growth was still...
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EASA's new rulemaker prepares for change
The European Aviation Safety Agency's new rulemaking director Jules Kneepkens has been in the job since September, when Claude Probst stood down, so he has...
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Airline pilot training needs a complete re-think
Airline pilot training regulations have not changed as aircraft have evolved, so crews are not as well prepared for today's flightdeck as they could be
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European flight time limitations: pilots cheer, airlines howl
There have been simultaneous expressions of jubilation from pilot associations and of horror from airline management on the publication of new recommendations...
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'Pilot training is the key to preventing serious accidents'
Pilot training 'key to accident prevention'
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Air transport ditchings in the past 10 years
There are many ditchings in the world every year, but very few involve big jets. Below are three examples of jet ditchings and one involving a turboprop...
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Forecasts 2009 - Safety and security are in the doldrums
The next big improvement in air transport safety will not happen in 2009 and will need truly international standards
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Flight Safety Foundation to research helicopter emergency services safety
The accident rate among US helicopter emergency medical services (HEMS) operators has been so consistently bad for so many years that the Flight Safety Foundation is planning a research programme to discover its underlying causes.
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2008 shows airline safety has stopped improving
Global airline safety has stagnated, according to fatal accident figures from 2008. Following a decade of steady improvement, last year's results confirm...
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Flight Safety Foundation's perspectives on 100 years of safer flying
The Flight Safety Foundation's current president Bill Voss puts the history of aviation safety into context: "The modern state...
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100 years of flight safety advances
As aircraft and engines have become more reliable, the safety focus has shifted to human factors and the drive for improved global standards