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Comments on the FAA proposal are due December 10.

New petition requests exemptions from IFR altitude rules of FAR 91.177 and 91.179.

Onboard fire extinguishers would be affected by proposal, though halon extinguishers would still be used for APUs and engines.

Amendment would apply to both currently manufactured and newly certified aircraft.

Aviation safety priorities include data input errors, non-controlled airport operations, approaches and underreporting of accident/incidents.

Agency says that lack of a policy “has led to a wide range of inconsistencies with respect to individual course approvals.”

Rules that take effect within six months, 12 months and beyond 12 months.

Preliminary, Factual and Final Reports

Group has accumulated some initial funds, but needs $100 million to build and initially operate the 300,000-sq-ft facility.

Grievance alleges that airport commission discriminated against Boston Executive Helicopter’s long-planned FBO at Norwood.

NTSB said the pilot failed to adhere to the “airplane’s flight manual procedures for antiskid failure in flight.”

Business jet accident fatalities are up slightly, while those for turboprops declined in the first nine months of 2014.

A roundup of the regulations entering force in the next six months, twelve months and beyond.

Proposal seeks to amend qualification standards for some flight simulation training devices.

Bureau of Safety and Environment mulls including industry standards for design, construction and maintenance of helidecks in regulations.

OSHA doesn’t consider industry safe enough.

Compliance inspections have found that some hangars are “routinely used” to store vehicles and large household items.

Rules taking effect this year and beyond.

Air traffic controller cited for issuing ambiguous clearance.

In the complaint, Boston Executive Helicopters said the airport’s actions “were clearly done to prevent” it from building an FBO.

Rules taking effect this year and beyond.

Turboprops registered worldwide were the only segment of the turbine business fleet to have reduced fatal and nonfatal accident numbers.

Company claims infighting is intensifying a campaign being waged by certain members to thwart the planned FBO.

This was one of four Premier accidents in 2013 that took a total of 11 lives.

Worldwide turboprop accident figures dropped in the first half of this year

Capt. Rex Hardy, a decorated U.S. naval aviator and test pilot, created the publication in 1979.

There were 21 total accidents involving business turboprops and jets in the first six months, compared with 27 in the same period last year.

The IFR Proficiency Center at the annual Oshkosh show will be a hub for instrument pilots.

In just the first five months, 24 people have died in five fatal business jet accidents worldwide.

Citation pilot says he landed long.