Archive for May, 2009

FAA awards interim controller ASAP contract

Aviation safety action programs (ASAP) are designed to offer aviation workers qualified immunity from prosecution in return for rapid reporting of errors and potential problems that the agency can then use to spot dangerous trends or ...

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Businessworld - Not Just An Airport

There will be an aviation IT school, a general aviation school, an air safety school, airline school, airport school, MRO school, pilot training school (simulator related), cabin crew and ground school, management school and aviation ...

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FAA bill passed by Congress despite EU objections

In an open letter to US Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood, the EU's US ambassador John Bruton had asserted that these inspection requirements contradicted the EU-US Aviation Safety Agreement signed in June 2008 and would "impede ...

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Aero-News Network: The Aviation and Aerospace World's Daily/Real

This AD results from mandatory continuing airworthiness information (MCAI) issued by the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA), which is the Technical Agent for the Member States of the European Community, based on reported incidents .

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Aero-News Network: The Aviation and Aerospace World's Daily/Real

This AD results from mandatory continuing airworthiness information (MCAI) issued by the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA), which is the Technical Agent for the Member States of the European Community, based on reported incidents ...

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Aviation Safety Network > News > News item

Following the brief closure of Kaduna Airport(KAD) two days earlier due to inadequate fire services cover, the Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) downgraded the airport and restricted aircraft movement to the airport. ...

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JetAmerica Baggage

One example of why we crucially need aggressive local journalism — these kinds of stories wouldn’t get done otherwise. Here’s a Columbus Dispatch report on excess baggage at the sketchy new charter-hybrid airline startup JetAmerica.

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Combining Technologies to Further Enhance Warfighter Safety

April 16th, 2009 HOOFDDORP, The Netherlands - Despite numerous warnings from engineers that aviation safety is being compromised by declining standards, regulators have always maintained that everything is under control, until now. ...

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Blogging at FL250: Thirty Years of Outsourcing Safety

Improving safety would require increasing fares, and passengers are utterly unwilling to pay more (if you doubt me, read some of the comments here). While the flying public always make concerned noises about aviation safety, ...

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USC - Viterbi School of Engineering - Student Capstone Project

When CSCI 477 was completed, Srinivasan said, “Aviation Safety was a great capstone project because it gave us the experience of researching a relatively new domain, coming up with appropriate requirements, designing a software solution ...

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