Business & Commercial Aviation

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An EMB-145 lands off the runway at Presque Isle, Maine. A crew had reported the localizer discrepancy to the Center after landing at KPQI on March 2, two days before the accident

An EMB-145 lands off the runway at Presque Isle, Maine. The story shows how even minor oversights by people in safety supporting roles can be significant.

Gulfstream’s leader, Mark Burns, discusses the company’s new aircraft certification progress, customer base, the market and service center network during the Farnborough Airshow.

A whole slew of people could have prevented this accident if they had been more safety conscious and more proactive.

One of the motivating factors to “get on top” is to reach down and help others up.

We check back with the RedTail Flight Academy to see how some recent graduates are doing.

The relatively new and legitimized multi-billion-dollar cannabis industry has brought in a wave of consumers who otherwise may not have participated much had it remained fully illegal. Some of these new, interested consumers may well be pilots. Here are answers to some confusing questions regarding their use as it relates to piloting an aircraft.

The biggest advantage to this stabilized approach method is that it more realistically tracks pilot expectations and is therefore more credible.

More reasons why pilots fail to follow Standard Operating Procedures for unstable approaches.

Elliott Aviation has retrofitted HomeSafe autoland systems on Daher TBM 940 turboprops delivered in the U.S. from 2019-20, before the Garmin-based autoland system was certified on the aircraft.

Very few pilots are following their own SOPs and are not going around from unstable approaches.

Learning the wrong lessons in the simulator sets you up to fail in the real world.

Circling is an unnecessary evil made worse by the way we train and check.

With decades of experience working out of the world’s most hostile environments, Harding Bush, a former U.S. Navy Seal and the current security operations manager at Global Rescue, provides insight on how to obtain peace of mind under high-stress circumstances.

German business aviation group DC Aviation on July 27 held a ceremonial opening of its new hangar at Oberpfaffenhofen Airport (EDMO) west of Munich.

Celebrating its fourth anniversary in business, Planet 9, a private jet management company and Part 135 charter operator based in Van Nuys, California, has shown how rapidly private air travel has been growing.

The hazard of taking off into an indefinite or low ceiling is underestimated by many pilots.

Maintain high but safe personal minimums or get rigorous initial and recurrent training in low-visibility instrument flight.

U.S. lawmakers lambasted the FAA as well as the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and industry July 28 for the nation’s plodding progress toward removing lead from aviation fuel used in piston-engine aircraft, the largest remaining source of lead emissions into the air.

See how air traffic controllers handle the load as tiny Wittman Regional Airport becomes the world's busiest during EAA AirVenture.

AirVenture Team Shares Insights From World’s Most Attended Air ShowBCA editors Molly McMillin, Mike Lavitt and Matt Orloff are reporting from Oshkosh, Wisconsin, during EAA AirVenture, where nearly 5,000 aircraft are on the field, and roughly 600,000 are expected to attend. Join us as we discuss the largest issues facing general and business aviation today and what the future may hold. We’ll look at the complex issues of removing lead from all aviation fuel, the outlook for pilot jobs, the new Daher Kodiak 900, the One Week Wonder project and more.

Pilots need to ensure the data input is accurate and that the output is handled correctly.

Pilots need to arm themselves against navigation data errors. Here are some tips.

Pilots should know how to fly the aircraft if the automation fails.