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Pilots should not hesitate to execute a go-around when encountering a bounced landing in a business aircraft.

A Part 135 rest and duty rules committee is pushing for new regulations that overhauls decades-old rules with a set of science-based regulations.

Pilots must execute the basic blocking and tackling that supports the planning, communication, and coordination needed to avoid runway incursions.

Several accidents have shone a spotlight on the important role human factors play in the development of checklists.

The clean aircraft concept ensures that an aircraft is safe for flight in wintry conditions.

Integrating a CASS into a safety management system will streamline and simplify workflows, making an operation more efficient, Wyvern says.

Runway excursions account for one-third of business aircraft accidents and, barring mechanical issues, are preventable.

Canada TSB drills down into group dynamics to find root cause of fuel starvation that led to a crash of a de Havilland Twin Otter.

Investigators and research have pointed to numerous reasons for lack of compliance with checklist use, but such an approach proves fatal.

An incorrect barometric setting on an RNAV (GPS) approach could have fatal consequences without any overt warnings to the crew.

APS's safety summit to be held November 16 is themed "Transforming Low Experience in High Aviation Safety."

Corporate users and vendors of flight data monitoring see an upside in implementing FDM, but say data protections are key to implementation.

A proposed bill in Congress would raise the mandatory retirement age for airline pilots from 65 to 67 without first examining the effects of aging.

Starr Insurance announces a Safety Partnership Program available to Part 91 and 135 business aircraft operators.

A September 24 notam prohibits most general and business aviation aircraft from taking part in the CPDLC en route trial due to avionics performance issues.

The FAA's decades-old thinking on spin training needs a new approach.

A visual approach in a large turbine-powered aircraft can be a challenge.

CAE's enhanced recurrent training uses data from a variety of sources to bring more realism into simulator-based business aviation training scenarios.

For business aircraft pilots, the best tactic to surviving a wake turbulence encounter is to avoid it altogether.

A safety management system for operators not only can reduce risk but also expand business opportunities.

Airlines and commercial operators could reduce expensive new-hire simulator training time using virtual reality technology.

Cockpit image recording systems have been a hot-button topic for more than 20 years, but the time for the FAA to require them might have arrived.

Pilots’ failure to recognize the need for and execute a go-around is a threat to flight safety and has been a major cause of approach-and-landing accidents

Safety reporting is a critical element in helping prevent accidents, but is business aviation taking full advantage of its benefits?

A safety management system seems difficult to implement for smaller Part 91 operators, but it can be more manageable when viewed in "bite-size" chunks.

During a demo flight of the Genesys Aerosystems HeliSAS, AIN writer Kipp Lau experienced the systems' many safety benefits.

By measuring pilots' physical reactions during flight training, SMU and CAE researchers believe performance can be more objectively determined.

Two terms often used interchangeably in aviation are currency and proficiency, but they are not the same and a pilot can be current but not proficient.

Genesys Aerosystems demonstrated safety and efficiency enhancements of its HeliSAS autopilot and UH-60 avionics modernization program.

The rate of loss of control inflight (LOC-I) accidents appears to be imporoving, according to data from Aviation Performance Solutions.