EASA ASC 2025 sees complacency as a safety threat, seeks rule simplification The biggest risk to aviation safety in Europe is complacency, arising as a consequence of the industry’s strong safety performance in the region in recent years, speakers at this year’s European Union Aviation Safety Agency’s Annual Safety Conference asserted. Meanwhile in an ever more complex operating landscape, existing...Read More

How Boeing Is Tackling Its Quality Control Issues By Louis Hardiman Almost two years ago, Boeing’s 737 MAX program was almost struck with another disaster when an Alaska Airlines flight had to divert after a sudden blowout of an emergency exit door plug. Since then, Boeing has announced a “war on defects”, greatly improving its quality control regime to ensure that faulty Boeing 737 MAX...Read More

Solar radiation and aircraft electronics: is this a big issue? By David Learmount Much of the world’s fleet of about 11,000 Airbus A320 series aircraft – the most popular airliner in the world according to sales – are affected by a current emergency airworthiness directive from the European Union Aviation Safety Agency and the US Federal Aviation Administration requiring that...Read More

Sustainability in Aircraft MRO: Building a Greener Future With the Maintenance, Repair, and Overhaul (MRO) sector’s critical importance growing every day due to fleet expansion and modernization—especially with the 2050 goal of achieving net-zero emissions—sustainability has become a mission statement. MRO operators are setting up their sustainable future, and many have been quick to adopt methods that reduce their environmental...Read More

2025 Pipeline Report & AMTS Directory The annual report is a compilation of data collected from A&P schools that analyzes and assesses the pipeline of aviation technicians. It is published annually in conjunction with the ATEC Fly-in each September in Washington DC.  Read More

ICAO Working Papers: Papers of Interest to IFA ICAO ASSEMBLY — 42ND SESSION – TECHNICAL COMMISSION   FATIGUE IN AVIATION MAINTENANCE ENVIRONMENT https://www.icao.int/sites/default/files/Meetings/a42/Documents/WP/wp_110_en.pdf   DEVELOPMENT OF GUIDANCE MATERIALS FOR CERTIFICATION AND OPERATIONS OF ELECTRIC VERTICAL TAKE-OFF LANDING (EVTOL) POWERED-LIFT AIRCRAFT FOR CROSS-BORDER OPERATIONS AND REGULATORY FRAMEWORK FOR DIFFERENT CATEGORIES OF UNMANNED AIRCRAFT SYSTEMS https://www.icao.int/sites/default/files/Meetings/a42/Documents/WP/wp_195_en.pdf   MUTUAL RECOGNITION OF APPROVED MAINTENANCE...Read More

Meeting the challenge of airworthiness certification through continuous verification By Jay Thomas Recent trends in embedded system development have made designing – and delivering – advanced air-mobility systems more challenging than ever before. Game-changing and innovative technology advances are being realized in software, resulting in large code bases that are more complex. Software teams are growing in size as well,...Read More

Savvy’s Anomaly Detection Uses AI To Analyze Engines System will help discover problems that can then be addressed by human experts By Matt Thurber Savvy Aviation has introduced an anomaly detection tool that uses artificial intelligence (AI) to augment human-led diagnoses of piston engine problems. The GADFly tool is designed to help identify unusual engine behavior based on analysis of...Read More

Flying has never been safer. Then why do crashes still haunt us? By Kaif Shaikh When Air India Flight 171 went down, it shocked the public and professionals who knew how capable modern jets have become. The Boeing 787 Dreamliner, one of the most advanced airliners ever built, had never suffered a fatal crash until this disaster. What made it...Read More

Manchester Air Disaster remembered 40 years on By Richard Stead A man who lost his 18-year-old daughter in the Manchester Air Disaster said he would never forget dropping her off at the airport exactly 40 years ago. Fifty-three passengers and two crew members perished on 22 August 1985 after an engine on a British Airtours aeroplane caught fire on the...Read More