All articles by David Learmount – Page 48
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Corporate aviation's safety blind-spots
How safe is business aviation? Not as safe as the sector would like to think. We've been looking at the latest expert views of where the dangers are
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FSF brings FOQA to corporate aviation sector
Even as Eclipse Aviation is promising a centralised, turnkey flight operations quality assurance (FOQA) system as a part of the total package for Eclipse...
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Eclipse and Diamond agree on pilot incapacitation aircraft recovery systems
Eclipse Aviation president and chief executive Vern Raburn envisages jet air taxis that can be flown legally with a crew of one pilot - in Europe as well...
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Business and corporate operations: the differences
TERMINOLOGY IS IT business OR corporaTE? The US FAA has a simple definition of the difference between corporate and business aviation operations:...
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SAS Bombardier Dash 8 Q400s suffer main gear failure twice
Danish investigators have identified corrosion in the main landing-gear assembly on the Scandinavian Airlines Bombardier Q400 turboprop that suffered a landing-gear...
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Pilots slam MPL as first European pilots win their licences
Danish low-fare carrier Sterling Airlines is preparing to accept an initial batch of new pilots which, it claims, are the first in Europe to qualify following...
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EASA ponders flight deck cameras following Helios crash study
Mandatory crash-proof flight deck video recorders appear to be one step closer to adoption following acceptance by the European Aviation Safety Agency of...
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Helios crash: what has already been done
Following recommendations by the AAIASB during the investigation but before the report was issued, Boeing revised its flight crew training manual to clarify...
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IATA criticises all aspects of Brazilian aviation safety infrastructure
Brazil's accident rate is currently about 3.5 times the world average and the reasons for this are almost all down to shortcomings in air traffic control,...
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What are IATA's recommendations?
Chronic lack of investment in all aspects of communications, navigation, surveillance, air traffic management and airports is at the base of Brazil's problems,...
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Mechanical failure caused fatal crash of Copterline Sikorsky S-76 helicopter
Failure of a critical mechanical component caused the fatal crash of a Sikorsky S-76...
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Headlines briefing
All ON BOARD AIR MOOREA TWIN OTTER FEARED DEAD ACCIDENT All 20 people on board an Air Moorea de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter 300 are feared dead...
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GA pilots asked to help cut dangerous airspace infringements
Eurocontrol's airspace infringement initiative co-ordinator Alexander Krastev says that the agency, with the help of the European arm of IAOPA, "is determined...
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Safety advance depends on reporting
Slowly but surely Eurocontrol and the air navigation service providers in its member states are working on controlling different categories of risk-bearing...
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Airliners face higher risk of collision as airspace incursions increase
Aircraft in controlled airspace, particularly those operating to airports with terminal control areas or zones, appear to be at greater risk than ever of...
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PICTURE: Airbus A380 cleared to operate on standard-width runways
Airbus's A380 has received regulatory approval to be operated on standard-width runways despite the fact that the International Civil Aviation Organisation recommends wider runways should be provided for the type.
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Regulating flexibly
Laws are often designed rigidly on the assumption that people will abuse them. But sometimes enforcing their spirit rather than their letter is more effective
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Airbus cleared to release TAM accident flight recorder information
Downloading information from the TAM Airbus...
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Airbus and Boeing are providing glimpses of the potential for flightdeck development beyond the initial equipage for their new competing widebodies, respectively...
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US airport safety under microscope
Alleged systemic covering-up of air traffic control errors by US Federal Aviation Administration employees at Dallas Fort Worth airport is to be investigated...