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September 28, 2009 Air Safety Week
Get Smart
Honeywell's SmartRunway and SmartLanding technologies, developed to reduce runway accidents at crowded airports, have received Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Technical Standard Order (TSO) approval, allowing the company to deliver its runway products...
September 28, 2009 Air Safety Week
Agenda for Aviation Safety
National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) Chairman Deborah Hersman says the Safety Board will continue to press the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) on implementing safety recommendations issued as the result of NTSB accident investigations. Stated the...
September 28, 2009 Air Safety Week
Controllers Ratify Labor Pact
The nation's air traffic controllers on Sept.23 ratified a new labor contract with the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) that will cost the federal government $700 million over the next three years. Under the agreement, newly hired controllers would see...
September 28, 2009 Air Safety Week
Human Factors Guide to Enhance Aviation Safety
Citing the prevalence of human factors issues in aircraft accidents and incidents, the Flight Safety Foundation's European Advisory Committee (EAC) has released the Operator's Guide to Human Factors in Aviation (OGHFA) to bridge the gap between theory and...
September 28, 2009 Air Safety Week
Safety & Technology Trends
Bombardier Safety Standdown Set The 13th edition of Safety Standdown, Bombardier's annual safety seminar, takes place in Wichita, KA at the Hyatt Regency Wichita from September 28 to October 1. FAA Administrator Randy Babbitt, NTSB Chairman Deborah Hersman...
September 28, 2009 Air Safety Week
Safety Rules & Regs
Forty-Ninth Meeting, RTCA Special Committee 186: Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B). The FAA is issuing this notice to advise the public of a meeting of RTCA Special Committee 186: Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B). The...
September 28, 2009 Air Safety Week
Accidents & Incidents
Date Aircraft Type Narrative Death/Injury Remarks Aug. 05, 2009 Mont Laurier, Canada ENSTROM F28 C-GVQQ A/c registered to private individual and piloted by accident pilot destroyed when impacted wires and terrain near Mont-Laurier Airport (CSD4). Two...
September 25, 2009 N/A
Life Saver or Life Taker?
A New Era for Helicopter Emergency Medical Services (HEMS) An Aviation Today Webinar Thursday, October 29, 2009 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. (ET) Helicopter Emergency Medical Services (HEMS) operations provide an important service to the public by...
September 23, 2009 Avionics
Sensis System Certified for En Route Separation
Sensis Corp.'s Wide Area Multilateration (WAM) deployment around four airports in Colorado achieved Initial Operating Capability (IOC) from FAA, making it the first multilateration system accepted in the National Airspace System by FAA for the...
September 23, 2009 N/A
Improving Air Safety in Remote Regions
A new surveillance system introduced by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) in Colorado allows air traffic controllers to track aircraft not covered by radar in remote, mountainous regions. The new system, called Wide-Area Multilateration (WAM)...
September 22, 2009 N/A
Runway Light Automation at Teterboro Airport
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has selected the Searidge Technologies intelligent-video-based surface management system, IntelliDAR, to provide runway-light automation at the Teterboro Airport in New Jersey. Teterboro Airport is one of the...
September 21, 2009 Air Safety Week
New FAA Safety Initiatives Unveiled
Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Administrator Randy Babbitt is putting a new spin on air safety, moving to improving the agency's response to public safety complaints and whistleblower charges while ensuring that air carriers comply with safety...
September 21, 2009 Air Safety Week
Roadmap for NextGen Implementation
The public unveiling of the recommendations of RTCA's NextGen Mid-Term Implementation Task Force (NextGen TF) took place on Sept. 15 in Washington, D.C. at the NowGen NEXT conference sponsored by Avionics Magazine and RTCA, the organization that develops...
September 21, 2009 Air Safety Week
Report Calls for Infrastructure Investment
Saying U.S. airlines have made measurable progress despite the recession, the Air Transport Association (IATA) believes any further progress requires the deployment of a modern air traffic management system which will yield higher productivity, greater...
September 21, 2009 Air Safety Week
A Better 'Black Box'
In the wake of the fatal crash of an Air France Airbus A330-200 in the Atlantic on May 31, 2009 and the inability of searchers to retrieve the jetliner's flight data recorder (FDR) and cockpit voice recorder (CVR) from the bottom of the deep ocean water...
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