American Airlines was forced to ground flights for a period earlier this week when their Electronic Flight Bag (EFB) on which pilots carry instrument approach charts, navigational data, and other aircraft information, including manuals, using an Apple iPad, rather than…
This issue is now getting a lot of attention. United just banned a passenger who is an IT cyber security expert, because the airline believes him to be a threat to their aircraft systems. We are not sure this…
At the risk of being classified as “Chicken Little” we want to, once again, highlight the cyber security issue. Cyber security is something commercial aviation needs to keep focusing on. This thought is based on reading a report from Cylance…
Commercial aviation is focused only only one item more than making a profit – ensuring its safety record. Looking back over the industry’s history it is a very impressive record. There are literally hundreds of thousands of people in-flight at…
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This morning the FAA reported that it had “restored full air-traffic operations at the high-altitude facility in suburban Aurora, Ill.” See here for more details on what was done. Well can we see this in the data? Not yet is…