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Two routes are now available for flight planning.

Present bird protection regulations apply only to transport category rotiorcraft and have not been updated since being adopted in 1966.

Part-ML proposes alleviations for aircraft maintenance programs and airworthiness reviews.

FAA says more restricted airspace is necessary to support NASA testing and Navy training requirements, including weapons firing.

Improved training seems to have resulted in an improved accident rate for the MU-2.

However, the number of non-fatal accidents of N-numbered business jets has improved significantly this year, decreasing by 87.5 percent.

The agency has always interpreted the existing smoking ban to prohibit e-cigarettes, but new rule explicity codifies this.

Proposed changes establish a new ditching certification methodology by which a target probability of capsize following a ditching can be determined.

Proposal would add to CS-25 a new appendix for “low-occupancy airplanes,” the EASA’s generic terminology for business jets.

Twinjet sustained “minor damage to the wing leading edges” after colliding with runway lights during its landing roll on snow-contaminated runway.

New rules cover all “large airplanes; jet powered airplanes; or turbine-powered pressurized airplanes certificated for more than six passenger seats.”

Mandate is imposing new requirements on non-Russian certified operators, including operators certified by the U.S.

Smaller airline and general aviation operations had fewer events, but a wider variety of causes was behind the incapacitations.

Changes include the requirement that all aircraft operating under IFR must now be equipped with GNSS avionics.

New criteria allow for lower separation minimums for certain pairs of aircraft, taking into consideration wake turbulence-induced accidents.

New rule will require reporting ACAS Resolution Advisories when they are "necessary to avert a substantial risk of collision between two or more aircraft.”

FAA says helicopter pilots should avoid conducting running landings in skid-equipped aircraft on runways with lighting systems embedded in pavement.

Meanwhile, the number of non-fatal mishaps last year increased threefold, rising from six in 2014 to 18.

New requirements narrows scope of ACAS resolution advisory reports.

CVR reveals that no checklists were used from the beginning to the end of flight.

The aircraft, built in 2008, was the first Eclipse to be registered in the African continent.

The new standard is the outcome of recommendations stemming from the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370.

Recommendations stem from the TSB’s investigation into the crash of a Metro III on Dec. 22, 2012, in which an infant was killed.

The SAFO advises operators should explicitly define roles.

Retrix has been operating out of preexisting facilities since expanding to Worcester.

The ZZZ identifier will no longer be valid.

The Citation was cleared to climb to 41,000 feet before it vanished from radar and crashed.

Examination of the airplane did not reveal any anomalies that would have compromised effectiveness of the flight controls, said the Safety Board.

The two pilots were killed when their aircraft crashed about 600 feet short of the VOR station, which was about one mile from the runway.

Comments on the proposal are due February 5.