When the wind is blowing from the northwest, pilots who have to fly Teterboro, New Jersey’s ILS Runway 6 approach followed by a circling maneuver to line up with Runway 1 have a new resource to make flying this maneuver easier and safer.
Honeywell’s RNP-AR consultancy service, which has been developing IFR required navigation performance-authorization required (RNP-AR) approaches that provide lower minima, now is offering visual RNP-AR approaches to runways that aren’t served by IFR approaches. The first guided visual approach developed by the Honeywell team is for Teterboro’s Runway 1. This can be flown when controllers give the “ILS Runway 6, circle to Runway 1” clearance by flight crew trained and aircraft equipped for RNP-AR approaches.
BJT: Separating Turboprops’ Performance from Perception
Turboprops have long been an “also” category of preowned aircraft, an afterthought compared with business jets, whose transaction figures dwarf theirs in volume and value. Surely the glamour of the jets and their association with masters of the universe in contrast with the dowdy utility work to which turboprops are often consigned plays a role in such perceptions. And range- and performance-wise, the capabilities of turboprops end where those of business jets begin.
Yet general aviation turboprops have traditionally held their value better than business jets and are more fuel efficient and less costly to operate and maintain. Moreover, for many private and business travelers, 1,000-plus nm—the lower end of today’s turboprops’ range—is more than enough for most missions.
“It’s not that easy being green,” sang Kermit the Frog in the first season of “Sesame Street” in 1970. Nearly four decades later, “being green” means something entirely different, but it still isn’t easy.
Today, being “green” means, in the most general sense, being environmentally aware and doing something positive about it. But it also means that aviation is the target of choice for many seeking to reduce the amount of greenhouse gases released into the atmosphere.
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Three years ago, on March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared Covid-19 a pandemic, triggering a largely uncoordinated global response, the two upheavals unleashing a worldwide healthcare, economic, and social crisis whose impacts continue.
The coronavirus had been spreading since its outbreak in China in December 2019, and the pandemic designation less than three months later brought a welter of regulations from federal, regional, state, municipal, and other authorities worldwide that overnight grounded aviation activity, along with most other spheres of global commerce.
FutureFlight: FSI To Train Lilium Jet eVTOL Pilots
FlightSafety International will provide training devices to prepare pilots to fly the Lilium Jet eVTOL, the companies announced on Thursday. In addition to providing immersive, mixed-reality simulators, the flight training group will develop a preliminary simulator representative of the single-pilot vehicle’s cockpit to be used by Lilium’s engineers for development work.
Under the agreement, the so-called eSim device (‘e’ stands for engineering) will be installed in Lilium’s ground-based aircraft systems integration laboratory to support efforts to test and certify the all-electric Lilium Jet. The equipment will help to familiarize the eVTOL developer’s pilots before they start flight testing a full-scale prototype of the Lilium Jet in 2024, as well as verify aspects of the aircraft’s performance to ensure compliance with type certification requirements.
Gulfstream Aerospace recently celebrated the achievements of its soon-to-be-certified G700 at its Manhattan sales and design center. A short time ago, the first two production G700s completed a world tour, with stops in some 20 countries. At the New York event, customers were able to view and provide feedback on what Gulfstream claims is the widest, tallest, and longest cabin available in any business jet.
During the world tour, the aircraft achieved 25 speed records, including Savannah, Georgia, to Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, in 12 hours 36 minutes; Istanbul, Turkey, to Vietnam’s Van Don International Airport in 9 hours 2 minutes; Riyadh to Melbourne, Australia, in 13 hours 39 minutes; and Christchurch, New Zealand, to Los Angeles in 12 hours 13 minutes.
Pointing to the recent spate of near collisions between aircraft and other mishaps that have captured headlines this year, Gen (Ret.) Lloyd “Fig” Newton told attendees at the Air Charter Safety Foundation’s Safety Symposium that operators need to focus on safety issues.
“There are probably some folks in our community that would say, 'That’s not us. That’s those other guys. They’re the one that’s having a problem out there,'” Newton told the audience of primarily charter providers, corporate operators, and safety specialists. But the former commander of the U.S. Air Force's Air Education and Training Command cautioned, “That’s not the way it works in our world and the world of aviation. Because I can assure you, if there’s a problem anywhere in aviation, there’s a problem everywhere in aviation. We can’t duck this. You’re just kidding yourself if you try that.”
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