Airspeed eroded, despite six eyes on the Asiana 777 flight deck

House and Senate lawmakers, though nearly $1 billion apart on their recommended fiscal 2014 FAA budget, are in agreement on a number of priorities, including support for the transition to an unleaded aviation gasoline and funding for FAA’s certification and inspection workforce.

Cessna has resumed deliveries of the Corvalis single-piston aircraft, now called the TTx and equipped with a number of enhancements. Cessna announced in April 2012 that it would restart the TTx’s production line, and began production later that year. The company flew the first of the new production TTx aircraft in early March.

FAA is proposing a series of regulations to permit greater use of enhanced flight vision systems (EFVS) during landing, address training for EFVS and facilitate installation without the need for special conditions. The agency touts the proposal as a means to help achieve NextGen goals of increasing access and efficiency at airports in low visibility, while maintaining safety.

A resurgence of interest in the updated Dornier 228 NG from commuter airlines has prompted RUAG Aviation to consider producing another batch of the twin-turboprop multirole aircraft. “We want to pre-sell the next batch before we go ahead with it, but then keep on selling for another batch afterward,” a company executive says.

The low-cost carrier phenomenon is transforming the airline industry all over the globe, but it is proving slow to catch on in Japan. The demise of one of Japan's three new LCCs is the clearest sign yet that the challenges they face in this market are larger than they bargained for. However, the stakes are still high enough to keep several major players in the game.

Adding to London's Heathrow Airport is the most cost-effective way of delivering extra capacity to the capital's busiest but most constrained airport, its owners are asserting. In the next fortnight, airport managers will deliver evidence to the U.K. Airports Commission outlining their ambitions to expand the Heathrow site.

How does a squadron charged with testing navigation and guidance systems in extreme jamming know where its aircraft and weapons are and how they are performing when GPS is jammed? The answer from next year on will be by using a local positioning system that has the potential to back up GPS wherever jamming or spoofing could have disastrous results, such as critical infrastructure, airports or guiding unmanned aircraft in civil airspace.