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A Future View of UAV Safety & Surveillance

By Scott Spangler on February 7th, 2013 | 13 Comments »

The 1.8 gigapixel looks at 20 square miles at once. Comments on last week’s post on UAVs focused on safety and privacy, and rightly so. Most offered valid examples of why UAVs won’t work today, and I won’t argue because I agree. At the same time, I can see how UAVs will safely integrate with [...]

Posted in Air Traffic Control, Airlines, Airports, Aviation Security, FAA, General, Military

Move Past LaHood … and the Sooner the Better

By Robert Mark on February 4th, 2013 | 1 Comment »

Sometimes the best action is to take none, which is precisely the route I chose last week when many people were falling over themselves to tell outgoing Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood how much they appreciated his past four years on the job. No criticism on my part for their actions though. Industry groups do [...]

Posted in Aerospace, Air Traffic Control, Airlines, Aviation Marketing, aviation safety, Aviation Security, Business Aviation, FAA, Flight Training, General, The Buzz

Safety May be the Death of General Aviation

By Scott Spangler on June 25th, 2012 | 55 Comments »

In her opening statement at the June 19 convocation addressing General Aviation Safety—Climbing to the Next Level, NTSB Chairman Deborah Hersman said “in spite of improvements to the commercial and corporate aviation safety records, the GA accident rate has been stubbornly resistant to safety initiatives.” She’ll get no argument that, “the status quo is not [...]

Posted in Airlines, Aviation Marketing, aviation safety, Aviation Security, Business Aviation, General

Air France 447 Final Report Means an Ugly Summer Ahead

By Robert Mark on June 12th, 2012 | 27 Comments »

I’ve been dreading this summer … for the first time in my life though actually. That’s because next month the final French BEA report on the Air France 447 crash will be released. Most professional pilots have a pretty good idea what it’s going to say though … pilot error. No big surprise there. From [...]

Posted in Air Traffic Control, Airlines, Airports, aviation safety, Aviation Security, Blogging, FAA, Flight Training, The Buzz

CFIs Need Career Situational Awareness

By Scott Spangler on May 9th, 2012 | 2 Comments »

Last week, the middle school where I am a substitute teacher held its annual career and hobby day, where students sign up for presentations  that interest them. I was on duty as a student wrangler, not a speaker, and it was happenstance that I ended up with 35 sixth, seventh, and eighth graders interested in [...]

Posted in Air Traffic Control, Airlines, Airports, Aviation Marketing, aviation safety, Aviation Security, Blogging, Business Aviation, FAA, Flight Training, General, Light sport aircraft, Military, sport aviation

A Middle School Perspective on Aviation

By Scott Spangler on February 12th, 2012 | 1 Comment »

A judge for “What’s Your Story,” the Wittman Regional Airport writing contest for those in grades 3-12 in Oshkosh-area schools, I feel compelled to share some observations gleaned from the entries I’ve just read. As our future, I found their participation in and perspective on aviation enlightening. In two categories, grades 3-8 and 9-12, students [...]

Posted in Airlines, Airports, Aviation Marketing, Aviation Security, Blogging, General

Safety Management System: NTSB Most Wanted is Big Investment With Little Return

By Scott Spangler on July 5th, 2011 | 3 Comments »

The NTSB just published its top-10 Most Wanted improvements to transportation. Beware of Number  Three, Safety Management Systems, aka SMS. For newcomers, here’s the FAA definition: “SMS is the formal, top-down business approach to managing safety risk, which includes a systemic approach to managing safety, including the necessary organizational structures, accountabilities, policies and procedures.” Canada [...]

Posted in Airlines, Airports, Aviation Security, Blogging, Business Aviation, FAA

Pilot or Panic?

By Robert Mark on June 23rd, 2011 | 18 Comments »

There’s no small amount of irony in the fact that Rockwell Collins announced it’s new “One Touch Safe Mode,” button at the Paris Air Show this week … at least it was ironic to me. The button, integrated into the avionics giant’s popular Pro Line Fusion integrated flight deck avionics system, is designed as a [...]

Posted in Airlines, Aviation Security, Blogging, Business Aviation, FAA, The Buzz

Corporate Terror BARR None

By Scott Spangler on June 13th, 2011 | 2 Comments »

The Department of Transportation’s recent notice that it will dismantle most the Block Aircraft Registration Request (BARR) program, which hides corporate aircraft activity from online flight-tracking programs, has caused quite a stir. Aviation’s alphabet organizations have risen up against the transparency initiatives the feds have used to justify the change. Trusted voices in the aviation [...]

Posted in Air Traffic Control, Airports, Aviation Marketing, Aviation Security, Blogging, Business Aviation, FAA

FAA Gives Ruling Class Special Treatment

By Scott Spangler on April 25th, 2011 | 9 Comments »

Air traffic control has been under the magnifying glass of late, with most recent incident being the loss of separation between Michelle Obama’s C-40 (Boeing 737) and a C-17 cargo plane. I’m puzzled. Numerous reports, including the story in the Washington Post, said ATC managers “were unaware of the potential problem.” Tell me, did the [...]

Posted in Air Traffic Control, Airports, Aviation Security, Blogging, FAA

Biz Av Takes One on the Chin

By Robert Mark on January 9th, 2011 | 8 Comments »

Sometimes I think we have only ourselves to blame for this kind of publicity. Business aviation seems to still enjoy that low profile, even since the chaos of the Big Three auto guys denying their companies actually owned airplanes, much less used them. But the January/February issue of The Atlantic carried a first story in [...]

Posted in Airlines, Airports, Aviation Marketing, Aviation Security, Blogging, Business Aviation, FAA, The Buzz

Janet, Just Tell the Nice Pilot You’re Sorry

By Robert Mark on December 27th, 2010 | 3 Comments »

When Janelle from CNN called for my opinion of the latest aviation security boondoggle, I had to admit I knew very little about the incident. The story focused on the Sacramento-based airline pilot who secretly recorded a security door in the terminal at San Francisco Int’l that allowed airport employees to pass through once they’d [...]

Posted in Air Traffic Control, Airlines, Airports, Aviation Marketing, Aviation Security, Business Aviation, FAA, The Buzz

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