All General aviation articles – Page 176
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EBACE: Business aviation operators seek to reduce administrative burden of EU ETS
Sector representatives are pushing for business aviation's exclusion from onerous emissions-monitoring requirements
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EBACE: Demand remains strong for personal jets
Demand for personal jets remains strong, according to the handful of niche developers, but it has been a turbulent year for most of them and the race to be first to market is as wide open as ever.
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FLIGHT TEST: Eclipse 500 - approaching totality
Despite its manufacturer's travails, the Eclipse 500 perseveres in a new incarnation - with revamped avionics and a new moniker on the livery
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Comment: See-and-avoid entails looking out
A Cessna Citation pilot climbing away from the runway looks up from engaging the autopilot to find a Cessna 172 filling his windscreen.
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Merpati president offers to quit after crash
Merpati Nusantara's President Sardjono Jhony Tjitrokusumo has offered to resign after one of the airline's Xian MA60 turboprops crashed over the weekend.
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PICTURE: One of AF447's engines retrieved from sea bed
One of the two General Electric CF6 engines of the crashed Air France Airbus A330, lost in the South Atlantic two years ago, has been raised from the sea...
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General Aviation - In brief
Piper has delivered two Piper Warrior single-engined aircraft to Farmingdale State College in New York for professional pilot training.
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US pilot training industry gets serious about reform
Ab initio pilot training in the USA is still based on Second World War methodology and concepts, a major symposium in Atlanta has heard.
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UK warns of circuit collision danger for business jets
The UK Airprox Board says that there needs to be a greater awareness among pilots and controllers of the risks inherent in mixing high-performance aircraft with slow traffic at general aviation airports.
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Austrian latest airline affected by Iran-USA diplomatic spat
Austrian Airlines will re-evaluate its Vienna-Tehran services later this month after being the latest airline to be caught up in an international diplomatic...
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Gulfstream holds to 12 green G650s this year
General Dynamics chief executive Jay Johnson says the company's Gulfstream Aerospace unit is moving forward with all "non-flying" aspects of G650 certification while an US National Transportation Safety Board continues its investigation of the 2 April fatal crash of a flight test aircraft, one of five in the nascent fleet.
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Props prop Hawker deliveries
Hawker Beechcraft during its first quarter 2011 earnings call reported a 32% increase in deliveries year-over-year, highlighted by 24 King Air turboprop family deliveries and 10 piston-powered Beechcraft family deliveries, each up more than 50% from first quarter 2010 results.
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PICTURES: Phantom Ray first flight raises funding hopes
First flight of the Boeing Phantom Ray UCAV on 27 April cleared a critical step in the company's search for external funding ...
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Jack Pelton retires from Cessna
Jack Pelton, chairman, president and chief executive of Cessna, has retired and a search for his successor is under way.
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AF447 recovery team retrieves cockpit-voice recorder
Search personnel have located and raised the cockpit-voice recorder of the Air France Airbus A330 which crashed in the South Atlantic, two days after retrieving...
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ASH CLOUD: New study details volcanic ash protocol for aviation
Last April's decision to close much of Europe's airspace as a result of the volcanic ash cloud that spread across the continent following the eruption of Eyjafjallajökull in Iceland was "well grounded", according to a new scientific study
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US group puts Cirrus take-over bid on hold
A US-based investor group has shelved an unsolicited bid to acquire Cirrus and prevent the Minnesota-based firm's take-over by a Chinese company.
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Flight Safety aims to introduce glass mirrors in training simulators
Flight Safety International during the first half of 2012 plans to install a glass mirror on a Sikorsky S-76 simulator at its West Palm Beach, Florida facility.
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Middle East Careers: the UAE's more sedate cities
Away from the bustle of Abu Dhabi and Dubai, the UAE has more sedate cities that are also attuned to the aerospace industry
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Middle East Careers: training the next generation
Demand for skilled expatriate employees will continue, but Gulf-based airlines are keen to train up and take on local recruits