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Registry is under intense scrutiny by Congress since an expose on the alleged failure of the FAA to properly monitor and keep records current.

BARS will now offer two audit streams leading to registration, as well as negotiable audit fees, revised audit checklists, and limits on audit extensions.

Under Phase 2, all routes above FL350 will have reduced lateral spacing, leaving only a couple of tracks—spaced at 50 nm—for everyone else.

Expansion this year will be “driven by on demand business jet charter, as opposed to outright or fractional ownership.”

CASA believes that some elements of the legislation could be simplified and some requirements could be less restrictive.

However, fatal accidents involving non-U.S.-registered business jets doubled from two in 2016 to four last year.

FAA does not accept a voluntary disclosure if the violation is discovered “during…an FAA investigation/inspection or…an accident or incident."

FAA lacks reliable method for determining overflight fees, the DOT IG said, adding courts frequently overturn FAA's practices.

The new rules stem from a TSB determination that human factors are the primary cause in a large percentage of accident fatalities.

Agreement establishes "new partnerships in aid of more integrated sectoral standards” for communications, navigation and surveillance (CNS) systems.

Amendments would broaden flight-time limititation rules to cover air taxi, emergency medical service and single-pilot commercial operations.

Once implemented, manufacturing requirements for non-critical parts would be alleviated, decreasing manufacturing costs “without affecting safety."

Draft contains recommended traffic patterns, communications phraseology and operational procedures for use by aircraft, in addition to drones.

Collins and the FAA are continuing to work together to permanently resolve this issue.

There have been 1,696 reports in the first nine months of this year versus 1,761 in all of 2016.

Pitot and static tubes blocked by wasp nests can cause a total loss of function of airspeed or altitude indication and control functions.

Plan will guide the integrated activities to implement runway safety improvement and risk-reduction measures.

The number of encounters involving general aviation aircraft increased to 86 percent.

“Aviation smuggling is nothing new in the Rio Grande Valley,” the CBP said.

Number of runway incursions has remained steady, despite implementation of the recommendations contained in the two previous versions of the plan.

Last year, the GA fatal accident rate was 0.989 per 100,000 flight hours versus 1.098 in 2015.

Many helicopters lack necessary instruments for the training.

The study area includes 12 airports areas around Cleveland and Detroit, including Cleveland Hopkins International and Detroit Metro Airports.

There are now nearly 800 IS-BAO-registered operators worldwide.

The association is asking the FAA to take into consideration recent FMS software glitches.

Ccovered employees will be tested for hydrocodon, hydromorphone, oxymorphone and oxycodone, in addition to other drugs such as marijuana and cocaine.

EASA expresses how and why it plans to adopt the emissions requirement rulemaking the agency proposed early this year.

In Canada, business aviation users on average outperform non-users by 43 percent in revenue growth.

The attached charts show how the business aviation accident stats compare to those for the airlines.

Proposed amendments are mainly expected to improve safety during night duties and where scientific principles to measure fatigue have not been used so far.