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December 01, 2019

Airborne 11.27.19: FAA Busts KSMO, 737 MAX 10 Debut, Homebuilt Accidents

Also: Gone West-Pat Luebke, CAE-Jazz-Seneca, Dubai Airshow, Safe Skies Act

It’s about time... after years of watching the FAA let the city of Santa Monica kill off one of California’s most vital airports, someone in Washington apparently has had enough. An aggressive Part 16 complaint made by a number of airport tenants, operators, the NBAA (whose leadership on this issue has been prominent), and others in 2016, resulted in an FAA investigation that found the city dealing fast and loose with airport funds, and its responsibility to operate lawfully, in accordance with FAA Airport Grant agree

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Salvatore Sciacchitano Of Italy Elected President Of The ICAO Council

Three-Year Term Begins January 1, 2020

The 36-member governing body of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), the ICAO Council, has elected Mr. Salvatore Sciacchitano of Italy as its president for a three-year term, beginning January 1, 2020. He succeeds Dr. Olumuyiwa Benard Aliu of Nigeria, who has held the position for two consecutive terms since 2014.

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Papua New Guinea Air Services To Deploy Aireon's Space-Based Technology In PNG

Will Contribute To A Safer Sky In The Asia Pacific

Papua New Guinea Air Services Limited (PNGASL) has signed an agreement to deploy Aireon's space-based Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) air traffic surveillance service in the Port Moresby Flight Information Region (FIR). This announcement will enable the near-term deployment of 100 percent, real-time air traffic surveillance of all ADS-B equipped aircraft.

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Pilatus Delivers 1,700th PC-12 To Jetfly Aviation

Company Operates The Largest PC-12 Fleet In Europe

Market demand remains strong for the Swiss single-engine turboprop as the 1,700th PC-12 enters service. Pilatus handed over the brand-new "milestone" PC-12 to long-time fleet customer Jetfly Aviation.

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Company Announces Largest Public Listing Of Private Jet Charter Empty Legs

'New Flight Charters' Lists More Than 200 Available Legs Aboard Private Aircraft

New Flight Charters, an on-demand private jet charter brokerage, now publishes the largest public listing of empty legs in the jet charter industry comprised of over 200 upcoming and available empty legs from U.S. private charter aircraft.

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Airbus Presents Ground-Breaking Technology For EUTELSAT QUANTUM

Active Antenna Is A First For European Commercial Telecommunications

Airbus, ESA and Eutelsat have presented the new ground breaking multibeam active antenna payload today at Airbus in Madrid. Airbus’ ELSA+ (ELectronically Steerable Antenna+) is a first for commercial satellite communications in Europe. The versatility of its performance represents a step change for communications satellites with a spacecraft able for the first time to adapt to the customers’ business cases as and when needed by means of software control.

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'Hey Google, Ask WestJet...'

Airline Introduces Digital Travel Assistant Powered By Artificial Intelligence

WestJet has made Juliet, its digital travel assistant, available on Google Assistant, giving guests a convenient, hands-and screen-free way to confidently have their day of travel questions answered. To chat with Juliet, guests can say "Hey Google, ask WestJet" to get started.

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GA-ASI Demonstrates Small Glide Munition Launched From Gray Eagle ER

Enables Longer Strike Range For SGMs

A U.S. Army MQ-1C ER Gray Eagle Extended Range (GE-ER) Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) manufactured by General Atomics Aeronautical Systems (GA-ASI) performed a flight demonstration using a Dynetics GBU-69B Small Glide Munition (SGM) on August 21-22. The SGM is a lightweight munition with increased effective range.

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Festive Holiday Atmosphere Awaits Everyone At EAA’s Christmas In The Air

Free Community Event Will Feature Musical Performances, Treats And Visit From Santa On Saturday, Dec. 7

Get into the holiday spirit in an uplifting setting as EAA hosts its traditional “Christmas in the Air” open house 10 a.m.-3 p.m. on Saturday, December 7, at the EAA Aviation Museum in Oshkosh.

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ANN's Daily Aero-Term (12.01.19): Radar

Radar A device which, by measuring the time interval between transmission and reception of radio pulses and correlating the angular orientation of the radiated antenna beam or beams in azimuth and/or elevation, provides information on range, azimuth, and/or elevation of objects in the path of the transmitted pulses.

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ANN's Daily Aero-Linx (12.01.19)

Aero Linx: The American Navion Society The American Navion Society was founded in the fall of 1960 by the late S. Dan Brodie.  He enjoyed the Navion so much that he wished to bring the owners together in an organization where the members could participate in social events and share  maintenance and technical information.  The headquarters were first based in San Leandro, California, and in 1961 moved to Oakland, California.  Later regional Navion clubs were formed with support from the American Navion Society.  Prior to the foundation of the ANS, one regional club, Imperial Valley Navion Club had been up and running since 1955, so it was actually the first owner organized Nav

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Aero-News: Quote of the Day (12.01.19)

"Customers today demand effortless support on their channel of choice. Voice assistants like Google Assistant are emerging as critical tools for companies to provide the instant, convenient and personal customer service that customers expect. By extending Juliet's capabilities to Google Assistant, WestJet customers will be able to get the information they need without lifting a finger and this launch raises the bar for customer-first support. After the incredible impact Juliet has made on the customer experience in Messenger, we're excited to partner with WestJet to extend our powerful AI platform to voice and make an incredible impact on agent productivity and customer satisfaction." Source: Puneet Mehta, Founder and CEO, Netomi, com

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