Earning an instrument and a type rating today still demands the applicant successfully fly a circling approach. Despite the FAA’s recent Advisory Circular (AC) 120-123 calling for an increased focus ...

How can two competing manufacturers have such wildly different views of how a cockpit should work? Boeing and Airbus have ...

Noise nuisance from aircraft can be reduced significantly by changing the way the planes come in to land. Lining up with the runway as far as 70 kilometres away and making a steady descent can more ...

OTTAWA — A WestJet flight nearly collided with the water while landing at a Caribbean airport in heavy rain and the pilots only aborted their approach when a cockpit alarm warned about the impending ...

A new aircraft separation system introduced by NATS, the UK’s air traffic control organization, has had beneficial effects at London Heathrow, the organization said Aug. 11. NATS said its introduction ...