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Registration Opens for Annual Bizav Safety Standdown

The seminar is open to all aviation professionals regardless of aircraft operated and is free of charge for attendees, but space is limited.

Parker Aerospace Announces New Partnerships and Products

The aerospace component maker wants to make your fuel tank safer.

One Fatal Bizjet Accident Blemishes 1H16 Safety Record

The business turboprop segment worldwide witnessed fewer fatalities in the comparable time periods.

Airlines Urged To Split Flight Crew Between Ground and Cockpit

Toulouse-based research lab studies solutions to alarm deafness in today's cockpits

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EASA Reports Dip in GA Accident Fatalities

According to the EASA annual safety review, general aviation accidents killed 65 people last year, which is 17 percent less than the five-year average.

Mercy Flights Helo Takes Evasive Action To Avoid Drone

The helicopter was en route to pick up a patient in Yreka, Calif., and none of the crew on board was injured.

Torqued: Are We Doomed To Repeat Past Mistakes?

ValuJet 20 years later

New Helicopter Training and R&D Center Opens in Canada

R&D will focus on human factors research in areas such as aircrew health monitoring and helmet fatigue.

S-76 Crash Prompts Calls for ELT Improvements

The TSB of Canada issued 14 recommendations as a result of its investigation into the May 2013 crash of a medevac S-76.

NTSB Wants Timely Pireps and More of Them

Member Sumwalt says pilots and ATC must work together to make Pireps more effective.

FAA Assessing Runway Status Lights Program

The agency created a survey as it looks to expand the program to other airports.

NTSB To Examine Use of Pireps

Safety board member Robert Sumwalt expressed concern that Pireps are not as effective as they could be.

Investigators Still Hopeful of Finding Egyptair Flight Recorders

The head of French accident investigation agency BEA says the industry has needlessly delayed new requirements for fight data recorder signals.

AOPA: Military Scrubs Planned GPS Interference Testing

Navy declines to cite reasons; Embraer says “ongoing normal operation” of Phenom 300 unaffected by GPS signal loss.

Regulations and Government

Airline Community Unites to Combat Pilot Mental Health Issues

Representatives from airlines, government, safety groups and pilots' unions find common ground

GPS Interference Testing Encompasses Southwestern U.S.

Phenom 300s advised to avoid testing area due to effect on geo-dependent stability systems.

Regulations and Government

NTSB Calls for Alert System for Icing Protection

Safety board pointed to pilot's failure to activate icing protection systems in December 2014 Phenom 100 crash.

FAA: Auto Detailers Not Suited To Clean Aircraft

Auto detailing companies cannot ensure compliance with related maintenance-related procedures, says FAA.

Regulations and Government

Wyvern Launches New Risk-management Products

New suite will provide “independent, customizable, comprehensive and systematic” in-house risk management programs for operators and their vendors.

Torqued: AC Is Not Good Substitute for Maintenance Fatigue Rule

Advisory guidelines just won’t work when mechanics are being pressured to work fatigued at places that put a premium on pushing airplanes out on schedule.

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