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CBAA wants operators who use Montreal Pierre Elliot Trudeau International Airport to write letters against a nightly GA airplane ban during runway work.

Trials of the new airport collaborative decision-making (A-CDM) procedures started on Monday at Canada’s Toronto Lester B. Pearson International Airport.

To help reduce wrong surface incidents, the FAA is sponsoring “special focus” meetings at various airports hosted by the agency’s runway safety action team

Sloulin Field Airport and its FBO are scheduled to close on October 10 simultaneously with the opening of Williston Basin Airport and a new FBO.

The FCC has proposed fines against wireless Internet providers that allegedly caused interference o the FAA’s doppler weather radar station in San Juan.

For the fourth time in six weeks, passengers and crew evacuated safely from a Cessna Citation following a crash before fire consumed their aircraft.

Nav Canada, the private, not-for-profit that operates the country’s ATC system, is increasing user fees to recover costs of providing ADS-B surveillance.

Operators with older minimum navigation performance specifications approvals must get them updated if they want to keep flying in the North Atlantic Track.

The twinjet that crashed on August 14 in Tennessee bounced twice on landing and collapsed the right main landing gear on the third touchdown.

Australia’s Civil Aviation Safety Authority has finalized new crew fatigue rules that apply to holders of commercial air operator certificates.

The FAA has issued a notice to advise pilots and maintenance personnel of the potential for easily damaging angle of attack sensors on aircraft.

New rulemaking updates current FAA security threat disqualification regulations and consolidates them into one regulation that applies to all pilots.

Retired race car driver Dale Earnhardt, his family, and the two pilots emerged without serious injuries after their Citation Latitude overran a runway.

Weeks after reaching a settlement agreement, the town of Norwood, Massachusetts, has apparently reneged on a deal to allow BEH to establish an FBO.

The FAA is investigating an incident in which a Boston MedFlight pilot briefly fell asleep at the controls of a helicopter while transporting a patient.

Since the first engineered materials arrest system was installed in 1999, there have been 15 incidents where an aircraft has rolled onto one in an overrun.

The rule facilitates use of IFR departure and approach procedures at airports/heliports without approved weather reporting source.

The FAA alleges Steel knew it was in violation because it previously had faced similar allegations.

After years of litigation, Norwood Airport and Boston Executive Helicopters reached a settlement that allows BEH to open an FBO at the airport.

OpsGroup has advised its international operator members of four new ICAO bulletins updating North Atlantic Track (NAT) operations.

The Air Line Pilots Association has published a white paper decrying any effort to permit single-pilot airline operations.

National defense, homeland security, intelligence, and law enforcement entities will be allowed to terminate ADS-B transmissions during sensitive missions.

The sole-occupant pilot was subsequently arrested on one count of driving under the influence after crashing a Citation 550 at Nevada’s Mesquite Airport.

Participants in the recent European safety seminar agreed that there should be wider participation in regulatory process and stronger communications.

Camp is required for Part 121 and certain Part 135 operators, but is optional for other Part 135 and 91K operators.

EASA is exemption aircraft weighing 100,000 pounds or less that have a certified maximum seating capacity of 19 passengers or less.

A caregiver suffered broken bones after the aircraft she was riding on encountered several intervals of severe turbulence.

A new SAFO advises that airports may not be able to fully report accurate runway conditions.

The regulation calls for non-Russian certified business aircraft to receive government approval and to receive no objections from airlines.

The FAA is advising against using the DELETE selection for waypoints.