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Investigators and research have pointed to numerous reasons for lack of compliance with checklist use, but such an approach proves fatal.

An incorrect barometric setting on an RNAV (GPS) approach could have fatal consequences without any overt warnings to the crew.

APS's safety summit to be held November 16 is themed "Transforming Low Experience in High Aviation Safety."

Corporate users and vendors of flight data monitoring see an upside in implementing FDM, but say data protections are key to implementation.

A proposed bill in Congress would raise the mandatory retirement age for airline pilots from 65 to 67 without first examining the effects of aging.

Starr Insurance announces a Safety Partnership Program available to Part 91 and 135 business aircraft operators.

A September 24 notam prohibits most general and business aviation aircraft from taking part in the CPDLC en route trial due to avionics performance issues.

The FAA's decades-old thinking on spin training needs a new approach.

A visual approach in a large turbine-powered aircraft can be a challenge.

CAE's enhanced recurrent training uses data from a variety of sources to bring more realism into simulator-based business aviation training scenarios.

For business aircraft pilots, the best tactic to surviving a wake turbulence encounter is to avoid it altogether.

A safety management system for operators not only can reduce risk but also expand business opportunities.

Airlines and commercial operators could reduce expensive new-hire simulator training time using virtual reality technology.

Cockpit image recording systems have been a hot-button topic for more than 20 years, but the time for the FAA to require them might have arrived.

Pilots’ failure to recognize the need for and execute a go-around is a threat to flight safety and has been a major cause of approach-and-landing accidents

Safety reporting is a critical element in helping prevent accidents, but is business aviation taking full advantage of its benefits?

A safety management system seems difficult to implement for smaller Part 91 operators, but it can be more manageable when viewed in "bite-size" chunks.

During a demo flight of the Genesys Aerosystems HeliSAS, AIN writer Kipp Lau experienced the systems' many safety benefits.

By measuring pilots' physical reactions during flight training, SMU and CAE researchers believe performance can be more objectively determined.

Two terms often used interchangeably in aviation are currency and proficiency, but they are not the same and a pilot can be current but not proficient.

Genesys Aerosystems demonstrated safety and efficiency enhancements of its HeliSAS autopilot and UH-60 avionics modernization program.

The rate of loss of control inflight (LOC-I) accidents appears to be imporoving, according to data from Aviation Performance Solutions.

Aircraft flown single-pilot are 30 percent more likely to be in an accident, making it important for these pilots to improve their risk-management skills.

Missed approaches can come in numerous forms but the pilot must be prepared and manage the aircraft and flight path to ensure safe clearance.

For a quarter-century, the Bombardier Safety Standdown has helped promote aviation safety.

Circling approaches are 25 times less safe than straight-in approches and thus should be conducted only as a last resort.

Automation reduces workload, creates efficiencies and is highly dependable, but can present pilots with an unexpected, obscure, or highly complex scenario.

Airbus and Cathay Pacific might want to rethink a project aimed at allowing single-pilot operations of airliners during the cruise phase of flight.

UPRT in your aircraft, virtually: APS leverages VR technology to further mitigate the LOC-I threat.

Aviation Performance Solutions (APS) hosts an Upset Prevention and Recovery Training (UPRT) Safety Summit for Professional Pilots Worldwide next Tuesday.