All General aviation articles – Page 634
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Piper certificates secret new twin
NEW PIPER AIRCRAFT will unveil on 16 January its first substantially new design since emerging from bankruptcy in 1994, when it takes the wraps off its Seneca V piston twin. The latest Seneca has new engines and avionics, improved performance and a modified appearance, and is described by Piper as ...
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Outside control
There is nothing new in the perception of inadequacy in African and Third-World air-traffic control (ATC) - merely in the articulation of that perception. The major international bodies (the International Air Transport Association (IATA) and the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) have long known not only about the problems, but ...
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Gulfstream V delivery
Gulfstream Aerospace delivered its first Gulfstream V, to an unnamed "international customer", on 30 December, 1996. The delivery was actually to Gulfstream's Savannah, Georgia, completion centre where the aircraft will remain until it enters service in the second quarter of 1997. The first delivery followed provisional US certification of the ...
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Light moves
Time did not stand still for the big light-aircraft manufacturers while they sought and gained product-liability reform. This ultimately allowed them to re-enter their former markets, but by that time, US production had dropped from its early-1980s peak of about 70 light single- and twin-engined aircraft a day, to a ...
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What's on
Russian Aerospace '97 20-22 May, Moscow. Organised by Flight International and Aviaexport. Contact: Kim Daniels, First Conferences, 85 Clerkenwell Road, London EC1R 5AR, UK; tel: +44 (171) 404 7722; fax: +44 (171) 404 7733; email: confdesk@firstconf.com RAeS Events January: D F McIntyre Lecture: Prestwick Airport Reborn 13 January; Gordon ...
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Frontier leases
Denver-based Frontier Airlines is to lease two new 737-300s from Boullioun Aviation Services, of Belleview, Washington. The aircraft will be delivered in August 1997 and January 1998. Source: Flight International
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ValuJet stalled
In late December the US Federal Aviation Administration denied ValuJet Airlines permission to resume service between Atlanta and Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas, and West Palm Beach and Fort Meyers, Florida, and add more aircraft. Under a consent agreement, ValuJet is required to seek authority from the aviation agency to expand beyond ...
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Hold fire
Without waiting for impending US Federal Aviation Administration regulation to be confirmed, member carriers of the US Air Transport Association have agreed voluntarily to retrofit cargo-hold fire detection-and- suppression systems to all public-transport aircraft not already equipped with them, and are working with industry to develop appropriate equipment. The FAA ...
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Collins tests 3-D free-flight awareness display
ROCKWELL-Collins has developed a three-dimensional situational-awareness display, which, it believes, has a key role to play in making future "free-flight" air-traffic-management systems safe and viable. The display is made possible by the powerful graphics capability of the large-format, high-resolution, liquid-crystal displays which are under development for Collins' Pro Line 21 ...
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Airlines
There can be little doubt that one of the recurring themes running through the world airline industry in 1997 will be the continued US-leddrive towards world open skies. In its wake, expect further manoeuvring among carriers to strengthen transpacific and transatlantic alliances. Arguably, the most significant (and certainly ...
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IAOPA unhappy with lack of GA ATM plans
The International Council of Aircraft Owner and Pilot Associations (IAOPA) has complained strongly to Eurocontrol about the lack of recognition given to general-aviation interests in the preparation of the future European air-traffic-management (ATM) system. It says that, despite working on the European ATM System (EATMS) concept for a ...
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Toughing out the boom
In 1997, can the major airlines improve on their performance in the boom year of 1996? Airline Business previews the main issues which will dominate airline executives' thinking in 1997. These are the good times, but life for the average airline manager does not appear to be getting any easier. ...
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China puts on the squeeze
China is having mixed success in its aviation policy. Despite easing the moratorium on aircraft orders, Beijing is now having to curb international capacity growth for fear of Chinese carriers losing out to their foreign counterparts. But the authorities are having more success in their drive for domestic consolidation. ...
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Defender success
The Irish Garda (police) is to become the first operator of the Pilatus Britten-Norman Defender 4000 surveillance aircraft. The new aircraft will be fitted with a variety of sensors, including television and infra-red, and may be used in the counter-terrorist role. The Irish police expect to receive the aircraft in ...
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C-5 life-extension is 'affordable'
Graham Warwick/ATLANTA LOCKHEED MARTIN HAS completed a study commissioned by the USAir Force into upgrading the C-5 Galaxy transport to extend its service life until at least 2030. The company says that an upgrade costing $35 million or less per aircraft would reduce the C-5's operating cost per ...
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Harris' WINGS adds weather to flight-planning system
HARRIS HAS introduced a general-aviation flight-planning system, which allows routes to be overlaid on real-time weather graphics. The company's Weather Information and Navigational Graphics System (WINGS) consists of Windows-compatible software for Pentium-class personal computers (PCs). The system provides dial-up access to Melbourne, Florida-based Harris Information Systems' flight- and ...
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AI(R) offers pilots with Avro RJs
Andrew Doyle/LONDON Aero International (Regional)is offering to supply flight crew and pilot-training packages to airlines which buy Avro regional jets, following the success of a ground-breaking project with Sabena. The regional-aircraft manufacturer developed its "bespoke training system" after Delta Air Transport (DAT), Sabena's regional subsidiary, found ...
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FAA approval for single-engined IFR operations nears
The long-standing rules, banning single-engined commercial operations under instrument-flight-rules (IFR), will be withdrawn in the USA, if a Federal Aviation Administration notice of proposed rule-making is accepted. If it occurs, this will be a blow to US/European regulatory harmonisation, because the European Joint Aviation Authorities appears to have ...
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Atlantic
Charter, management and consultancy Atlantic Aviation, of Teterboro, New Jersey, has appointed Gary Gennari to the newly created position of director for client relations. He was formerly charter-sales supervisor. Michael Sala has become manager of aircraft sales. Source: Flight International