Air Transport Safety, Ops & Regulation
May 21, 2019
ICAO should consider stronger standards for centerline lighting on wide runways because of the key role the visual cue plays in helping pilots avoid runway excursions, the Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) says.
May 21, 2019
The UK has extended its use of electronic “ePassport” gates at airports to several more nations, including the US and Canada, in an effort to reduce lengthy queues that have been building at UK immigration channels in recent years.
May 21, 2019
The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has advised organizations of “inherent risks” associated with using unmanned aircraft vehicles (UAVs) manufactured in China.
May 21, 2019
Indonesia regulators might extend the grounding of the Boeing 737 MAX until 2020 as it makes its own deliberations over the certification of the aircraft and pilots.
May 20, 2019
A group of US Democratic senators are calling on American Airlines chairman and CEO Doug Parker to provide “livable, family-sustaining wages” to passenger service agents at American-owned regional subsidiary Envoy Air.
Nov 16, 2021
Union leaders representing frontline transportation workers urged Congress to work with the FAA to implement a national database of unruly airline passengers, following a recent spike in assaults against flight attendants and transportation security officers.
Nov 16, 2021
The FAA and wireless telecommunications stakeholders are making progress identifying conflicts between certain aircraft systems and 5G wireless networks, FAA Administrator Steve Dickson said Nov. 16, emphasizing that potential mitigations on both sides are still being discussed.
Nov 15, 2021
Collins Aerospace has announced it is working with Australian company Seeing Machines on a suite of technologies to monitor fatigue and alertness among flight crews.
Nov 15, 2021
The ICAO Council has approved new criteria for sustainable aviation fuels (SAFs), eligible under the Carbon Offsetting and Reduction Scheme for International Aviation (CORSIA).
Nov 15, 2021
The Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore has rolled out plans to open VTLs to five more countries: India, Indonesia, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.
Nov 15, 2021
The Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore (CAAS) has confirmed its partnership with Singapore Airlines (SIA) and government-linked investment company Temasek to launch a sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) pilot program at Singapore Changi Airport by 2022.
Nov 15, 2021
The revised system will be flight-tested on the 737-10 in 2022 and is likely to be rolled in as a retrofit to the MAX following certification of the stretched derivative which is planned for 2023.
Nov 12, 2021
Wichita State University’s National Institute for Aviation Research (NIAR) has conducted a full-scale fuselage drop test using anthropomorphic test dummies and post-mortem human passengers inside a Challenger 601 fuselage to validate advanced virtual engineering models of the same test set-up.