Content Archive: May 2017

Industry announcements and appointments

Choosing the right system to provide airborne Internet connectivity is a challenge for the small business aircraft owner-operator.

Fly-by-wire, integrated interfaces and more extensive electrification are found on most new jets…automated aircraft could be coming.

Two weeks after final taxi test, Chinese narrowbody flies for more than an hour

The milestone aircraft—a Phenom 300—was handed over to fractional provider NetJets at Embraer Executive Jets’ customer delivery center in Florida.

According to the plan, the currently 5,000-foot runway at SMO would be shortened to 3,500 feet by the end of the year.

Authorities plan to repeal all existing legislation in favor of full ICAO-compliant rules

The STC applies to all PC-12s equipped with a Waas-enabled GPS, including those with Honeywell Apex or Garmin or IS&S GPS units.

FAA executives described a multi-pronged federal campaign to control and counter small drones at a meeting of the Drone Advisory Committee.

What the FAA wants is direction from state and local governments about what authorities they would like to control small drone operations.