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November 12, 2020

Brian Foley: Boeing's Pilot Demand Forecast May Be Too High

Boeing's Latest Forecast Dropped 5% From Last Year's

By Brian Foley The word "forecast" sounds far more sophisticated than "educated guess", which it really is. Boeing released its annual Pilot And Technician Outlook for the next 20 years estimating a need for 763,000 new civil aviation pilots which is a whole lot of swagger. But not taking into account the technological progress being made in semi- and fully-autonomous flight, this number would seem drift away from the educated part of a guess. Let's first put that number of new pilots required into perspective. That's more airmen than the entire population of Boeing's birthplace of Seattle. It's more than the number of people living in De

AD 2020-22-11 Prompted By A Report Indicating That The Material Used To Manufacture The Upper Frame Feet Was Changed

The FAA is superseding Airworthiness Directive (AD) 2017-18-17, which applied to all Airbus SAS Model A300 B4-603, A300 B4-620, A300 B4-622, A300 B4-605R, A300 B4-622R, A300 F4-605R, A300 F4-622R, and A300 C4-605R Variant F airplanes. AD 2017-18-17 required modifying certain fuselage frames and a repair on certain modified airplanes. This AD continues to require the actions in AD 2017-18-17, and also requires, for certain airplanes, an inspection to determine if rotating probe inspections were performed prior to oversizing of the open-holes, and repair if necessary; as specified in a European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) AD,