All General aviation articles – Page 177
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RNP at midsized airports promises big benefits: GE
Deploying required navigation performance (RNP) approaches at 46 midsized airports that are not now the focus of the US NextGen airspace overhaul could save...
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RNP at mid-sized airports promises big benefits: GE
Deploying required navigation performance (RNP) approaches at 46 mid-sized airports that are not presently the focus of the US FAA's NextGen scheme could...
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NewsEBACE: New aircraft in the works
The financial crisis has not dampened the enthusiasm of business aviation's community of pioneers and their quest to rival established brands with innovative designs.
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Friction data gives false sense of security: Norwegian inquiry
Norwegian investigators believe that winter weather measurements give a false impression of accuracy, and that this misunderstanding contributes to incidents and accidents on slippery runways.
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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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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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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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Opinion
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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NewsPICTURE: 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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NewsGulfstream 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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NewsPICTURES: 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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NewsJack 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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NewsAF447 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