Big Brother is Watching Everything - Including Your Flight
The Dept. of Transportation is aware of every movement of every aircraft, including who is on the plane and it is availalbe to anyone with an Internet connection... [more]
As Close As It Gets
It’s Time For Us, The Passengers, To Take Control Of Aviation Security. The Northwest Airlines near terrorist disaster brings back into focus just why we are in this horrible security predicament in aviation... [more]
Repeat Lesson
Landing In Thunderstorms Is Dangerous. American Airlines learned yet again that attempting a landing in a thunderstorm can be very tricky... [more]
Three Asleep In The Cockpit
The Captain, The First Officer, And The Department Of Homeland Security. All accidents and incidents have more than one cause. In this case it was... [more]
Hudson River Tragedy
Same Old, Same Old - Inadequate Job by the FAA - Nine people dead and everyone is wondering how this could happen... [more]
One Level Of Safety
An Elusive Goal For Commuter Airlines. There is only one level of safety. The problem is the experience level of the pilots and outdated safety systems are... [more]
Stop Faulting Crew
Stop Faulting the Flight Crew for the Crash of Colgan 3407! The flight crew was blameless for this crash and everyone investigating the crash knows it... [more]
Pilatus PC-12 Crash Stinks
Fourteen people killed in an aircraft that can only carry 10 has the stench of carelessness all over it. Most PC-12s can safely hold only... [more]
Why Turboprop Aircraft Shouldn’t Fly in Ice
The Continental 3407 crash reminds us of long-forgotten lessons. The reality is that large airplane manufacturers gave up deicing boots fifty years ago because they knew... [more]
Criminalization of Air Disasters
Nothing good comes of criminal prosecutions following air disasters. While such proceedings may satisfy the public’s zeal to punish... [more]
NASA Deep Sixes Important Aviation Safety Information
NASA spent $8,500,000 of our money to study critical safety failures in our aviation system; destroyed report; would be embarrassing to government and airlines... [more]
The Cure For Carburetor Ice
That Nobody In The Industry Wanted. Carburetor ice has been a problem since airplanes were first invented... [more]
Change to Advisory Frequency Approved
All too often the pilot switches his primary radio to the advisory frequency without tuning in approach control on the second radio and turning up the volume so he can listen... [more]
De-Ice Or Anti-Ice
A Decision That Can Cost You Your Life. Aircraft wings and tails have forever been the collectors of enough ice to make them quit working... [more]
Illegal Double Engine Failure
NTSB Recommends More Pilot Training... [more]
Integrity in Government?
How the Party System Has Run Amuck at the NTSB... [more]
FAA Information Must Remain Public
The FAA in response to pressure from manufacturers has refused to divulge information provided both by the manufacturers and those in the field... [more]
FAA Needs New Crew At The Top
It is time to overhaul the FAA from the top down, and bottom up... [more]
NTSB Chairman Fails to Understand
Why Privacy Relating to Cockpit Voice Recorder Tapes Deters Safety, Rather Than Enhancing It... [more]
