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July 20, 2009
Alaska Air Going Green Over Seattle
This summer Alaska Airlines began testing next-generation flight procedures at Seattle-Tacoma (Sea-Tac) International that will allow the airline and its sister carrier, Horizon Air, to reduce their environmental impact during airport approaches. Dubbed...
July 20, 2009
Making Alaskan Airfield Approaches Safer
Approaching Alaskan airfields can be an aerial obstacle course for aircraft making descents and landings. Often surrounded by challenging mountainous terrain, air corridors into and out of the airports may be hemmed in by pinnacles, towering conifers and even...
July 20, 2009
FAA/NCOIC Team on NextGen
The FAA and the Network Centric Operations Industry Consortium (NCOIC) have entered into an agreement to advance the Enterprise Architecture of NextGen, the FAA's national airspace system (NAS) transformation program. NCOIC's FAA contract has a potential...
July 20, 2009
Safety & Technology Trends
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 Montr�al Bonaventure, Montr�al, Qu�bec, Canada. The event comes as long-term...
July 13, 2009
Controller Fatigue and Errors Highlighted
A 21-page report by the U.S. DOT Office of the Inspector General points to air safety threats caused by air traffic controller fatigue in Chicago while recent runway incidents in Cleveland and Boston have resulted from training and operational miscues. The...
July 13, 2009
FAA Installs Runway Safety System at LAX
Technology that alerts pilots to potential runway safety hazards is now operating at Los Angeles International thanks to a partnership between the Federal Aviation Administration and the city of Los Angeles. The safety system, called Runway Status Lights...
July 13, 2009
Safety & Technology Trends
Aviation 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 to...
June 29, 2009
Group Formed to Develop UAV Sense-and-Avoid
The European Defence Agency's (EDA) member states, with Sweden as lead nation, signed a Project Arrangement on the MID-air Collision Avoidance System (MIDCAS) at the Paris Air Show to develop the sense and avoid technologies needed by unmanned air systems...
June 29, 2009
ATC Tracking Methods Can Reduce Medical Errors
New research shows a method used by air traffic controllers may be more effective in tracking patient data and lead to fewer errors compared with current methods used in similar medical settings, primarily in military trauma. At present, the most prevalent...
June 29, 2009
Safety & Technology Trends
Talking Tough Newly anointed FAA Administrator Randy Babbitt talked recently about his priorities as head of the U.S. aviation agency. "A word about my number one priority. Safety. Colgan and Air France are reminders that we've got to be vigilant. The...
June 22, 2009
Regional Airline Summit Yields Action Plan
The nation's top-level federal aviation safety regulators have taken immediate steps to monitor the regional airline industry's pilot training and reduce the threat of fatigue on the flight deck. The voluntary measures emerged from the June 15 "call to...
June 22, 2009
Trolling for Evidence
Investigators continue their search for the flight data and cockpit voice recorders from the Airbus A330-200 that crashed into the Atlantic Ocean on June 1, killing all 228 people aboard. Air France Flight 447 had departed Rio de Janeiro bound for Paris. It...
June 22, 2009
Get Smart
Honeywell has launched a product that builds on existing Honeywell technologies to address runway excursions that will alert pilots if the aircraft's approach is unstable and at risk for an unsafe landing. "Runway excursions - when a plane travels off...
June 22, 2009
SESAR Gets Off the Ground
The SESAR Joint Undertaking (SESAR JU), a public-private partnership in air traffic management (ATM) research and development founded by the European Commission and EUROCONTROL, has signed 16 contracts totaling Euro1.9 billion for the creation of Europe's...
June 22, 2009
Sydney Airport Near-Miss Prompts Safety Review
A Near-miss between two taxiing passenger jets on a runway at Sydney Airport has prompted a review of air traffic control procedures there. On July 17, 2008, an Airbus A330-300 carrying 13 crewmembers and 163 passengers bound for Melbourne started its takeoff...
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