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Eclipse Aviation Meets Congress
October 01, 2008
Congressional hearings are often contentious, and the House aviation subcommittee investigation of the Sept. 30, 2006 type certification of the Eclipse 500 sparked some lively debate.The Democratic majority of the subcommittee said the investigation was the result of allegations that the FAA rushed to approve the type and production certificates despite the...
moreRegulations pose challenges for foreign operators in Russia
October 01, 2008
Because there are few business jets registered in Russia, almost all business jets flying into the nation are foreign-registered and therefore subject to the rules governing foreign aircraft.The nation has longstanding rules limiting flights over specific areas. In fact, a 1921 decree of the Council of Public Commissaries says, “The Revolutionary War...
moreSCR process in place to correct certification oversights
October 01, 2008
One of the tools in the FAA’s kit is the special certification review (SCR). According to the agency, the post-certification evaluation provides “a way to evaluate the type certification project and potentially unsafe design features on previously approved products.” The FAA initiates an SCR based on a variety of issues, one of which is service experience...
moreIndustry awaits ARC report on changes to ADS-B plan
October 01, 2008
At a recent NextGen conference, Jim Linney of the FAA’s ADS-B office detailed the user community’s response to the invitation to comment on the agency’s notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM). Of the 1,372 responses to the document’s 85 separate issues, there were 101 positive comments, versus 1,271 negative–or “non-positive,” in FAA terminology–comments....
moreTSA issues security action items for FBOs
October 01, 2008
The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has issued updated security action items (SAIs) for FBOs. The agency has not yet issued specific rules mandating security measures at FBOs, and these SAIs are basically the same as the guidelines that the TSA published in 2004, but reorganized to be more applicable to FBOs. This guidance, which is not...
moreCandidates’ Plans for Bizav Remain Hazy
October 01, 2008
When the new president takes office in January, among the myriad issues to be addressed will be the concerns of the aviation community. Certain to top the pile are FAA reauthorization, air traffic control modernization and selection of a new FAA Administrator.Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.), who took office in January 2005, has little track record on aerospace...
moreControllers Union Gains Bargaining Unit
October 01, 2008
The National Air Traffic Controllers Association (Natca) has officially added 150 ATC specialists assigned to the flight service option at Automated Flight Service Stations, Flight Service Stations and Flight Service Data Processing Systems sites located in Alaska and at the “weather unit” of the Air Traffic Control System Command Center near Dulles...
moreCongressional Observer: October 2008
October 01, 2008
• While Congress was on a five-week recess from August to September, the process for nominating presidential candidates (Senators John McCain and Barack Obama) took over the news headlines and focused attention on the coming election. As the campaign heated up and gathered steam, there were ever more promises as to what each candidate, if elected, would do...
moreNTSB Orders FAA To Reimburse Wronged Pilots
October 01, 2008
The NTSB’s chief administrative law judge on September 3 ordered the FAA to pay $12,475 in attorney fees and expenses to two pilots, whom the Agency had accused of operating an unairworthy Learjet 60, and the FAA subsequently withdrew its suspension of the pilots’ airline transport pilot certificates. The FAA, which had initiated an enforcement action in...
moreReport: GA still poses a threat to U.S. security
October 01, 2008
Seven years after 9/11, general aviation is still vulnerable to acts of terrorism because of inaction by the White House, according to a report prepared by the Democratic staffs of the House Homeland Security and Foreign Affairs Committees.Titled Wasted Lessons of 9/11: How the Bush Administration Has Ignored the Law and Squandered Its Opportunities to Make...
moreSDR Database Undergoes Testing
October 01, 2008
The FAA’s Service Difficulty Reporting System (SDR) database is undergoing maintenance and should be available for queries after testing is complete, according to the agency. The final step before reopening the SDR database for public use is a test with three large submitters of reports to the database to see how the system responds. Once the upgrades are...
moreUBS Reports Slowing Bizav Flight Activity
September 30, 2008
According to UBS Investment Research’s business jet update issued on Friday, U.S. and international bizjet flight activity was “sharply lower” in August. However, about 86 percent of the flights UBS tracked were domestic flights within the U.S., meaning the international sampling is somewhat under-represented. Analyst David Strauss noted that total cycles...
moreOperators ‘Non-positive’ about ADS-B
September 30, 2008
A cost-benefit case for ADS-B equipage of general aviation aircraft cannot be made, concluded an Aviation Rulemaking Committee (ARC) in a report published last week. Analysis of public comments relating to the FAA’s September 2007 ADS-B NPRM showed 101 positive and 1,271 “non-positive” responses. Sources tell AIN that most commenters regarded the plan as...
moreHouse Panel Focuses Again on Runway Incursions
September 30, 2008
A near runway collision between a United Airlines regional jet and a Cessna 172 at Lehigh Valley International Airport (ABE) in Allentown, Pa., on September 19 underscored testimony by a top government official on Friday that “the risk of runway incursions is still high.” Gerald Dillingham, director of physical infrastructure issues for the Government...
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