GAMI Unleaded Avgas Approved For GA Piston Fleet (Updated) In a first for the aviation industry, the FAA has approved supplemental type certificates (STCs) for the use of General Aviation Modifications Inc.’s G100UL 100-octane unleaded avgas in all general aviation piston aircraft. GAMI co-founder George Braly stated that the[…] Read this article
NASA Awards Five Additional Missions To SpaceX NASA has signed on with SpaceX for five additional missions to transport crew to the International Space Station (ISS). The missions are a modification to NASA’s Commercial Crew Transportation Capability (CCtCap) contract with the company, which originally covered nine missions.[…] Read this article
Avidyne AviOS10.3 Operating System Software Approved Avidyne’s AviOS10.3 operating system software for the IFD GPS navigator series and ATLAS and HELIOS flight management systems has received FAA technical standard order authorization (TSOA) and supplemental type certificate (STC) approval. Among the features added with the software upgrade[…] Read this article
Charting Errors If you’re like us, you have multiple sources for aeronautical data—charts—that can be in digital or paper format. Also like us, maybe the digital data you use in the cockpit comes from different vendors, even if it’s the same basic[…] Read this article
FAA Awards Grants To Expand STEM Outreach The FAA has awarded $231,000 in grants designed to facilitate science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) outreach. The grants will go to three universities—North Carolina State University, Kansas State University and Ohio’s Sinclair Community College—for programs aimed at students of[…] Read this article
Poll: Is Sending Artemis 1 On A Lunar Flyby The Right Thing To Do? Read this article