Longer programs give you more flight training to become a commercial pilot. Accelerated programs might help get you your license quicker, but they don’t teach you as much for the real job.How does it prepare you for being a pilot?
Commercial Space Week is taking place in Orlando this week. It’s a collection of three conferences: the Global Spaceport Summit tomorrow (Monday), the U.S. Space Force Space Systems Command’s Space Mobility Conference (Tuesday), and Spacecom|50th Space Congress (Tuesday-Thursday). Former NASA...
This intentionally sets a tone of collaboration and common cause between the company, FAA, labor groups, and other industry stakeholders. Partnership connotes equality and transparency; however, this parity may be challenged when one party is privy to more information than the other. With the ease...
Bottom image: An ArcGIS Pro user may only need to check out the license for 10 days. Share 3D Tiles to ArcGIS Enterprise You can share 3D Tiles datasets as web layers to ArcGIS Enterprise 11.4 and later. 3D Tiles is an OGC standard that enables the visualization of large-scale 3D ...
The company's fleet of commercial airplanes has been rife with safety issues, prompting widespread media attention and mounting concerns from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and flyers. Here's what you need to know. What is going on with Boeing planes, and what does John Oliver have...
The FAA can request additional psychological testing or the application may be sent to the FAA's Office of Aerospace Medicine. Commercial airlines can also have mental health screenings or requirements. If an outside source discloses to the FAA that a pilot has a mental health condition, the ...
fairly slim, though that likelihood increases the more often you fly. However, aviation insiders and medical experts say there are ways that all passengers—whether they’re global jet-setters or fly only a handful of times a year—can be better prepared if trouble does strike at 30,000 ...
Boeing began to build more low-cost planes using the fewest number of workers. Pitts says the FAA should share the blame in Boeing's downfall. After all, he says, the FAA allows too much self-certification, and management flows freely between Boeing and the FAA. ...
In an effort to reduce injuries caused by turbulence, the FAA has pushed new safety measures to reduce the likelihood of commercial airlines experiencing turbulence, such as encouraging pilots to file more reports and working to modernize the Pilot Report System where pilots communicate weather conditi...
Since EPIRBs are designed to get activated when submerged in water, they can accidentally get activated if they come out of the bracket and come in contact with water, hence creating a false alarm. New Zealand and Australia have a Class 3 type of EPIRB that does not activate when submerged...