2024 Corporate Aviation Leadership Summit

Andrew Wood

News, issues, personnel, equipment and developments about air traffic management.

New developments and products in avionics, specifically about aircraft electronics in the cockpit.

News and issues relating to international air transport and cargo carriers, national airlines and regional airlines, including aircraft, engines, personnel, acquisitions, accidents, safety, security and training.

In a curious turn of events, the FAA last month found itself launching its nationwide ADS-B program in Washington and boosting the system’s air traffic ben

As ADS-B launches nationally, system loses ground in Alaska

AIN Staff

News about significant aircraft accidents and information from accident reports.

In its final report released late last month, the NTSB concluded that a combination of flight crew and ATC deficiencies led to a controlled flight into ter

Crew, ATC cited in Learjet CFIT

Gordon Gilbert

Early this month the FAA is scheduled to start a new air traffic management initiative called the Airspace Flow Program (see Advisory Circular 90-102).

Airspace Flow Program Set To Flow

News about bills, laws, regulations and other governmental decisions affecting aviation and aerospace. Topics include FAA re-authorizations, taxes on fuel and aviation activities, environmental legislation, ICAO decisions, governmental mediation of labor conflicts and World Trade Organization disputes and decisions.

Two federal watchdog agencies told Congress that the Joint Planning and Development Office (JPDO) needs a permanent director and long-range funding to ensu

Challenges ahead for modern ATC program

Twenty students from China’s Air Traffic Management Bureau (ATMB) completed six months of U.S.

First students complete joint FAA/Chinese ATC training

Stephen Pope

FAA Administrator Marion Blakey last month reiterated the agency’s position that automatic dependent surveillance-broadcast (ADS-B) is the “backbone” of th

Blakey Touts ADS-B Capabilities

By 2009, Nav Canada plans to install ADS-B ground stations around Hudson Bay, which straddles high-latitude airline flight paths between Asia, North Americ

Canada launches ADS-B program

News and information on safety procedures and concerns.

Based on a study of 11 accidents that occurred between December 2002 and February this year, the NTSB expressed “serious concern” about the effectiveness o

NTSB: ‘Serious Concern’ with ATC Alerts

Runway incursions this summer nearly wrecked the flawless accident record major U.S.

ACSS targets runway incursion dangers

In the aftermath of the standoff between the FAA and the National Air Traffic Controllers Association (NATCA) over a new contract, the union’s rank-and-fil

New president for controllers’ union

“Business aviation should support the shift to user fees,” urged Reason Foundation director of transportation studies Robert Poole, “if it is part of a com

Is Reason Report Unreasonable?

Roger A. Mola

News and issues relating to the aerospace industry that are related to the science, engineering and business of flight in space involving civil, industrial and military applications, and similar topics related to flight in the atmosphere of the Earth that are not covered more directly by other AINonline subject channels. In other words, both astronautical and aeronautical subjects, except for those aeronautical topics that are specifically covered elsewhere on this website.

ATC

News, issues, personnel, equipment and developments about air traffic management.

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