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| 07.09.2009 |
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Chanchangi Air Flies With Lufthansa Systems
The Nigerian airline Chanchangi Airlines recently joined the growing community of Lido FMS customers and will operate its flights with the comprehensive FMS (Flight Management System) data from Lufthansa Systems. The FMS database contains all important route...
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| 07.09.2009 |
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GE Itemiser Wins TSA Seal of Approval
GE Security says it Itemiser DX desktop explosives trace detection equipment has successfully completed rigorous TSA certification testing in the DHS Transportation Security Laboratory and in a live airport environment. As the latest...
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| 07.08.2009 |
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Av Safety Expert Tapped for NTSB
President Barack Obama will nominate veteran pilot and aviation safety expert Christopher A. Hart to be a member of the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB). Hart, who previously served on the board from 1990...
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| 07.07.2009 |
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IHST to Meet
The International Helicopter Safety Team (IHST) will hold its Third International Helicopter Safety Symposium, September 29 - October 1, 2009, at the Hotel Hilton Montréal Bonaventure, Montréal, Québec, Canada The event comes as long-term...
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| 07.07.2009 |
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New FAA Chief Counsel
FAA Administrator Randy Babbitt has announced the appointment of David Grizzle as the new FAA chief counsel. Grizzle comes to the FAA following a 22-year career with Continental Airlines. From 2005 to 2008 he served as senior vice president of customer...
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| 07.06.2009 |
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SAE Symposium on ADS-B
Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) will trigger changes in global air traffic management on a scale that may surpass even that which was seen during the introduction of radar, more than 50 years ago. This technology offers improved situational...
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| 07.06.2009 |
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AOPA Advises on Weather Issues
AOPA Air Safety Foundation President Bruce Landsberg is participating in a working group that is advising the government on how to transform the way weather information is managed and applied in the NextGen air transportation system. He is collaborating...
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| 07.02.2009 |
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Raytheon Wins NextGen Research
NASA has selected a team led by Raytheon to develop enhancements to the system-wide modeling and simulation capability in the Airspace Concepts Evaluation System, or ACES. The plug and play models will help NASA, the FAA and other researchers better...
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| 07.02.2009 |
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Additional Certification for ALERTS
Appareo Systems has received an additional Supplemental Type Certificate (STC) for the ALERTS Flight Operations Quality Assurance (FOQA) system. Transport Canada has granted the STC for the Eurocopter AS350 and has granted earlier STC’s for Bell 206 and...
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| 07.01.2009 |
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Out of Africa
The European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) has contracted the AviAssist Foundation to assist in the organization of a symposium on Regional Aviation Safety Agencies (RASAs) that will take place from 13-15 July in Livingstone, Zambia. The three day event...
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| 07.01.2009 |
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Zambia Initiates Safety Management
The AviAssist Foundation recently conducted a two0day safety awareness course in Zambia. The course provided an introduction to safety management for Zambian operators, helping them work towards the implementation of a safety management system (SMS). The...
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| 06.30.2009 |
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Aging Aircraft Lab Adds KC-135s
Researchers at Wichita State University’s National Institute for Aviation Research (NIAR) have worked on several aircraft from Cessna 402s to a B-52 bomber and an F-16 fighter. And thanks to a new contract from the USAF, the list has grown to include...
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| 06.30.2009 |
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Frasca Selected for S76 FSTD
Frasca International, Urbana, IL and Era Training Center (ETC), Lake Charles, LA, have entered into an agreement leading to delivery of a Sikorsky S76 C++ Level 6 Helicopter Flight Simulator Training Device...
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| 06.29.2009 |
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UAV Sense-and-Avoid Contract
The European Defence Agency’s (EDA) member states, with Sweden as lead nation, has signed a Project Arrangement on the MID-air Collision Avoidance System (MIDCAS) to develop the sense and avoid technologies needed by unmanned air systems (UAS) to operate in...
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| 06.29.2009 |
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CALSTAR Leads the Way
California Shock Trauma Air Rescue (CALSTAR) is operating the first helicopter that allows for enhanced abilities and increased safety using Instrument Flight Rules (IFR). The modification, according to Joseph Cook, CALSTAR's president and CEO, will no doubt...
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| 06.26.2009 |
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NTSB Probes Two A-330 Avionics Anomalies
The National Transportation Safety Board is investigating two recent incidents in which airspeed and altitude indications in the cockpits of Airbus A330 aircraft may have malfunctioned. The first incident occurred May 21, 2009, when TAM Airlines Flight 8091...
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| 06.26.2009 |
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Ruling on ABX SFO Ground Fire
The National Transportation Safety Board will hold a public meeting Tuesday, June 30, at 9:30 a.m., in its Board Room and Conference Center, 429 L'Enfant Plaza, S.W., Washington, D.C. to determine the probable cause of a 2008...
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| 06.25.2009 |
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FlightSafety Intros Proficiency Protection
FlightSafety International now offers a Proficiency Protection Program designed to help pilots and maintenance technicians of business aircraft who have become involuntarily unemployed since January 1, 2009. The PPP is designed to help pilots and technicians...
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| 06.25.2009 |
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New Online Pilot Ground Schools
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University’s Worldwide Campus, through its Office of Professional Education, is now offering two new online courses that prepare students with the knowledge necessary for FAA Commercial Pilot and/or FAA Instrument Rating flight...
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| 06.24.2009 |
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Toronto City Centre Airport Gets Accipiter Radars
Accipiter Radar’s Accipiter line of software-definable radars is now operational at Toronto City Centre Airport (TCCA). Recently, Accipiter completed the installation and approval of a custom-developed application that provides automated alerts...
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