Category: Federal Aviation Administration

Sonex Crashes Into Condo, Pilot Killed

While flying from the northeast to south Florida last week it was bumpy at all altitudes and everyone was trying to find a better ride. I… AOPA has suggested a way to ease the impact of President Donald Trump’s frequent visits to his Palm Beach resort.

Sonex Crashes Into Condo, Pilot Killed

While flying from the northeast to south Florida last week it was bumpy at all altitudes and everyone was trying to find a better ride. I… AOPA has suggested a way to ease the impact of President Donald Trump’s frequent visits to his Palm Beach resort.

Here Come the Drones-And Their Security Holes

Within the next half decade, commercial drones will likely be delivering us pizzas, burritos and probably a few nonedible items too, experts predict. But with that convenience will also come a new slate of digital dangers, from remotely disabled drones crashing through our windows to malicious payloads hacking into office Wi-Fi networks.

View from NASA’s research lab 20,000 feet above Washington

Every air traveler knows the frustration of descending toward a busy airport – yes, Sea-Tac included – just to have the pilot circle around the runway rather than land, to stall time due to heavy air traffic. NASA is midway through a series of data collection flights over Eastern Washington that will help them improve a new Air Traffic Management technology designed to help pilots adjust their flight pattern so they arrive at the airport in an orderly stream.

Trump Talks Aviation

Pilots should be wary when operating close to the boundaries of Class B airspace, the FAA said recently in a Safety Alert for Operators…. Years ago, new GPS approaches were commissioned at Houma, LA and the FAA King Air was flight checking them …Tower: ‘Report… In the Flytenow case, the FAA applied old thinking that doesn’t work in a world where technology moves at the speed of heat. They’ve moldered on my office shelf, unused, for more than a decade.

BasicMed Survey: Disappointed Resignation

Pilots should be wary when operating close to the boundaries of Class B airspace, the FAA said recently in a Safety Alert for Operators…. Years ago, new GPS approaches were commissioned at Houma, LA and the FAA King Air was flight checking them …Tower: ‘Report… In the Flytenow case, the FAA applied old thinking that doesn’t work in a world where technology moves at the speed of heat. They’ve moldered on my office shelf, unused, for more than a decade.

March 2017 Instrument Procedure Amendments Announced

On Friday, the FAA released the list of instrument procedures to be revised or cancelled in the March 2 update to the Terminal Procedures… Pilots should be wary when operating close to the boundaries of Class B airspace, the FAA said recently in a Safety Alert for Operators…. In the Flytenow case, the FAA applied old thinking that doesn’t work in a world where technology moves at the speed of heat. VFR into IMC events have a distressingly high fatality rate.

Content Insider #504 – Taking Flight

“Hey, don’t look at me. I stopped dreaming a long time ago” – Frank Riley, “Batteries Not Included,” Universal Studios, 1987 At CES, a whole new flock of fly-high, fly-fast, fly-bad drones were introduced and now the category is suddenly destined to be the next monstrous consumer category.

Tillamook UAS Test Range Utilizes New High Altitude COA

As part of an unmanned flight test for NASA and the FAA, Near Space Corporation successfully flew a drone from the edge of space to operate as a surrogate test bed for technologies supporting new Suborbital Reusable Launch Vehicles currently under development. The September 26th test, conducted for NASA’s Flight Opportunities program, was the first of many flights that will be taking advantage of a unique FAA High Altitude Certificate Of Authorization .

Ramping Up For ADS-B

Pilots who fly in Southern California’s busy airspace will soon be expected to follow new procedures, so the FAA has planned a… While we were preparing to shut down at a tie down spot at Henderson Airport, Las Vegas, ground control was directing a taxiing Piper …… In the Flytenow case, the FAA applied old thinking that doesn’t work in a world where technology moves at the speed of heat. They’ve moldered on my office shelf, unused, for more than a decade.

SpaceX Returns to Flight With Successful Falcon 9 Launch

SpaceX ‘s Falcon 9 returned to flight, launching successfully from Vandenburg Air Force Base in California today, just four and a half months after a fiery explosion destroyed Facebook’s AMOS-6 satellite. An investigation conducted by SpaceX concluded that the September 1 explosion was likely caused by a failure of a pressurized second-stage tank.

Elon Musk says SpaceX ready for launch, but FAA isn’t

SpaceX has test fired the engines for its scheduled launch next week, the first time the aerospace manufacturer will try to launch a Falcon 9 rocket since a devastating September explosion. “The FAA has not yet issued a license to SpaceX for a launch in January,” the Federal Aviation Administration said on Thursday.

SpaceX rockets will finally fly again this week

SpaceX has been anxiously waiting for the right time to resume rocket launches since the unexpected explosion that destroyed a Falcon 9 rocket in mid-September during ground preparations. That date might be January 8th, a new report says, assuming everything goes according to plan.

Mojave a ” thinking outside the box

Doug Scroggins of Scroggins Aviation works on block buster movies often using old planes from Mojave’s boneyard. His helicopter built for the film Jurassic World, was part of the second highest grossing film until Star Wars bumped it out.