All Safety News – Page 841
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European Cockpit Association provides links for isolated pilots as Ryanair follows Easyjet with trans-national quasi-union scheme
Pilots at airlines like Ryanair with bases all over Europe are being offered a system for liaising with their company centrally - no matter in which state or jurisdiction they are domiciled - the European Cockpit Association (ECA) announced at its General Assembly late last week.
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NewsUS FAA details accounting problem and missed fatal accident rate target in otherwise glowing annual review
A day after the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) was criticised by UK lawmakers for poor management, its US counterpart, the Federal Aviation Administration has revealed an eight-year accounting issue in an otherwise favourable annual review. The review also highlighted a failure to meet the aviation accident fatality reduction target, ...
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NewsUK lawmakers brand European Aviation Safety Agency 'an accident waiting to happen,' urge no power extension
British lawmakes brand European Aviation Safety Agency 'an accident waiting to happen,'
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Notams poised to enter digital age, with FAA and Eurocontrol set to modernise 50-year-old syst
Eurocontrol and the US Federal Aviation Administration hope to field a preliminary system for producing standardised, computerised notices to airmen (Notams) by 2010 in a move it says will provide "major benefits" for the aviation community.
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Required navigation performance procedures win FAA approval in shift towards a performance-based navigation system
The US move towards a performance-based navigation system has taken a step forward with the US Federal Aviation Administration approval for Delta Air Lines to use any required navigation performance (RNP) approach procedure in the USA. Also, Continental Airlines has been approved to use a new lower-visibility approach to Quito, ...
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NewsAlteon on course to validate multi-crew pilot licence course, first customers China Eastern Airlines and Xiamen Airlines
Boeing’s Alteon training division says its first multi-crew pilot licence (MPL) training course, with six cadet pilots from two Chinese airlines and six places yet to be filled, will inevitably be a validation process for the new training philosophy and licence type.
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Still the sick man: Cover story of the top 50 airlines
Buoyant revenues and traffic failed to lift the dark cloud over US airline finances last year, but carriers in the rest of the world enjoyed a much rosier 12 months
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US green groups challenge NOx limits, wanting higher limits
US Environment Protection Agency faces legal action as pollution campaigners aim to raise technology bar
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Failings prompt Australian aviation safety agency CASA to revoke AOC of Transair, airline involved in country's worst accident in May 2005 Lockhart River
Australia's Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA) has cancelled the air operator's certificate of Transair, the airline involved in the May 2005 crash at Lockhart River in Queensland - the country's worst civil aviation accident in 40 years.
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A380 ready to take off on route-proving flights
Test aircraft MSN002 to fly four trips to 10 airports, but with few passengers aboard