NTSB Chair Not Pleased With Boeing's Cooperation On Door Plug Probe National Transportation Safety Board chair Jennifer Homendy angrily testified today (March 6) during a Senate hearing that “Boeing has not provided us with the documents and information that we have requested numerous times over the past few months.” She referred[…] Read this article
FAA Grant Program Steers Students Toward Aviation Careers As part of its career-development program, the FAA announced yesterday (March 5) it will dispense $13.5 million to 32 schools and colleges nationwide “to attract and train students for careers as pilots and aviation maintenance technicians.” A dozen of those[…] Read this article
Blog: Cirrus's Fresh Approach Represents A New Pathway To Piloting Cirrus took its marketing strategy in a new and different direction with January 11’s livestream “reveal” of the new G7 version of the SR-series piston singles. As a “mature” pilot in the process of reestablishing instrument currency, I had mixed[…] Read this article
Skyborne Adds 20 More Piper Pilot 100i Trainers To Its Order Vero Beach, Florida flight academy Skyborne has ordered an additional 20 Piper Pilot 100i trainers. The new agreement will supplement an initial order for 11 Pilot 100is. Deliveries began in November 2023 as part of a multiyear agreement. The new[…] Read this article
Garmin Updates Its Safety Management System With New Features Garmin announced today (March 6) it has upgraded its FltPlan safety management system (SMS) by updating the system’s Flight Risk Assessment Tool (FRAT). The new FRAT is streamlined, needing less input from pilots, and enables customizing operators’ FRATs for different[…] Read this article
