2024 Corporate Aviation Leadership Summit

Stuart “Kipp” Lau

While the SMS rule has strong support, safety advisors caution on implementation

FAA Mandates SMS for Charter Operators—Now What?

New concepts press the issue of single-pilot operations on jet transports

AINsight: Single-pilot/Second Pilot Optional

While taking root with airlines, competency-based training is relatively novel in the business aviation sector

Stepping Up Safety with Competency-based Training

Automation can both help and hurt flight crewmembers

AINsight: Is VNAV a Pilot’s Friend or Foe?

Be concise but authoritative when communicating safety issues to C-level executives and high-net-worth individuals

AINsight: How Pilots Can Effectively Talk Aviation Safety to the Big Boss

Fat fingers and lack of situational awareness during takeoff can ruin your day

AINsight: Beware of Erroneous Takeoff Parameters

Go/no-go decision speed is critical part of takeoff safety for pilots

AINsight: V1 Is a Balancing Act on Takeoff

Can psychological discoveries improve flight safety?

AINsight: Single-pilot Ops and Lemon Juice

Top safety officials probed the issues that are causing an 'erosion of safety margins'

A High-level Call to Action on Aviation Safety

Trying out new ways to fly is a sure way to recharge a pilot's batteries

AINsight: The Bucket List for Professional Pilots

Flight Research International Trains in a Sabreliner and Impala

Taking Upset Recovery Training to New Heights

The NTSB retired its safety list, so AIN's safety/airmanship blogger came up with his own

AINsight: Most Wanted Safety Improvements for Business Aviation

Inflight smoke and fire events are increasing

New Technologies Aim To Mitigate Inflight Smoke and Fire Events 

Professionalism in aviation is much more than just collecting a paycheck for flying and wearing a necktie

AINsight: Pilot Professionalism Redefined

Runway incursions involving business jets are on the rise as crews misunderstand line up and wait instructions

AINsight: Wait, Wait, Don’t Take Off!

Program reduced precursor upset conditions by 50 percent

Operational Data Supports Active UPRT Programs

Workarounds and inattention blindness defeat fueling error defenses

AINsight: Fuelish Mistakes

American Airlines and the Air Line Pilots Association use a SkyWest Part 380 filing to push back against its use and JSX gets caught in the crosshairs.

The Fight Against Public Charters is Heating Up

It's a myth that humans can multitask, warns the NTSB

AINsight: Deadly Distractions on the Flight Deck

Event will share aviation safety knowledge with professional pilots

APS To Host Annual UPRT Safety Summit

NTSB cautions on inherent risks to circling approaches

Circling Approach: Is It Your Best Option? 

Preflight errors can lead to aircraft accidents

AINsight: Remove before Flight

AR-based system uses oxygen mask with goggles

In-flight Smoke Enhanced Vision Display Gets FAA Nod

Learning from the mistakes of others

AINsight: Dark Side of Visual Approaches

While FAA's notam modernization system has plodded along, Congress has set a deadline for improvements and a users group is testing a better way.

Fixing Notams: At Long Last, Changes Are Ahead

A simple query about improving aviation safety to ChatGPT yielded 10 solid answers, but they also require critical thinking to delve further.

AINsight:  Now Everywhere, Can AI Improve Aviation Safety?

APS provides UPRT at a high-altitude in all-attitude aircraft.

A Higher Level of Upset Training with APS

Challenger 300/350 pilots should review the airplane's quick reference handbook in light of a recent upset accident in the business jet.

AINsight: Fatal In-flight Upset Poses Important Lessons

Pilots should not hesitate to execute a go-around when encountering a bounced landing in a business aircraft.

AINsight: Bounced-landing Awareness and Recovery

A Part 135 rest and duty rules committee is pushing for new regulations that overhauls decades-old rules with a set of science-based regulations.

Part 135 Rest, Duty Regs Review Leads to Calls for Change

Pilots must execute the basic blocking and tackling that supports the planning, communication, and coordination needed to avoid runway incursions.

AINsight: Blocking & Tackling To Avoid Runway Incursions

Several accidents have shone a spotlight on the important role human factors play in the development of checklists.

Best Practices in Checklist Design Account for Human Limitations

The clean aircraft concept ensures that an aircraft is safe for flight in wintry conditions. 

AINsight: Keep It Clean

Integrating a CASS into a safety management system will streamline and simplify workflows, making an operation more efficient, Wyvern says.

Wyvern Integrates CASS into SMS Program

Runway excursions account for one-third of business aircraft accidents and, barring mechanical issues, are preventable.

AINsight: Preventing Runway Excursions a Complex Task

Canada TSB drills down into group dynamics to find root cause of fuel starvation that led to a crash of a de Havilland Twin Otter.

AINsight: Adaptations, Groupthink Down Twin Otter

Investigators and research have pointed to numerous reasons for lack of compliance with checklist use, but such an approach proves fatal.

Checklist Discipline: Avoiding the Simple Stupid Stuff that Kills	

An incorrect barometric setting on an RNAV (GPS) approach could have fatal consequences without any overt warnings to the crew.

AINsight: Six Feet from Disaster

APS's safety summit to be held November 16 is themed "Transforming Low Experience in High Aviation Safety."

UPRT specialist APS To Host Online Safety Summit

Corporate users and vendors of flight data monitoring see an upside in implementing FDM, but say data protections are key to implementation.

Flight Data Monitoring Growing in Corporate Flight Ops

A proposed bill in Congress would raise the mandatory retirement age for airline pilots from 65 to 67 without first examining the effects of aging.

AINsight: Cognitive Decline in Aging Pilots

Starr Insurance announces a Safety Partnership Program available to Part 91 and 135 business aircraft operators.

Starr Insurance Launches Safety Partners; APS Among First To Join

A September 24 notam prohibits most general and business aviation aircraft from taking part in the CPDLC en route trial due to avionics performance issues.

FAA Notam Prohibits Bizav from CPDLC En Route Trial

The FAA's decades-old thinking on spin training needs a new approach.

AINsight: Spin Cycle          

A visual approach in a large turbine-powered aircraft can be a challenge.

AINsight: A Visual Approach Gone Bad

CAE's enhanced recurrent training uses data from a variety of sources to bring more realism into simulator-based business aviation training scenarios.

CAE Enhanced Recurrent Brings Scenario-based Training to Bizav

For business aircraft pilots, the best tactic to surviving a wake turbulence encounter is to avoid it altogether.

AINsight: Who’s Responsible for Wake Vortex Avoidance?

A safety management system for operators not only can reduce risk but also expand business opportunities.

AINsight: Marketing Aviation Safety

Airlines and commercial operators could reduce expensive new-hire simulator training time using virtual reality technology.

Virtual reality—The Future of Flight Training

Cockpit image recording systems have been a hot-button topic for more than 20 years, but the time for the FAA to require them might have arrived.

AINsight: Is It Time for Cockpit Video Recorders?

Pilots’ failure to recognize the need for and execute a go-around is a threat to flight safety and has been a major cause of approach-and-landing accidents

AINsight: Go-around Minded

Safety reporting is a critical element in helping prevent accidents, but is business aviation taking full advantage of its benefits?

Assessing the Health of Safety Reporting in Business Aviation

A safety management system seems difficult to implement for smaller Part 91 operators, but it can be more manageable when viewed in "bite-size" chunks.

AINsight: Don’t Swim with Sharks

During a demo flight of the Genesys Aerosystems HeliSAS, AIN writer Kipp Lau experienced the systems' many safety benefits.

Hands On: Genesys HeliSAS: the Digital Safety Pilot

By measuring pilots' physical reactions during flight training, SMU and CAE researchers believe performance can be more objectively determined. 

SMU and CAE Apply Biometrics to Flight Training

Two terms often used interchangeably in aviation are currency and proficiency, but they are not the same and a pilot can be current but not proficient.

AINsight: Developing a Personal Proficiency Plan

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