HARTFORD, CT – A flight school headquartered at Brainard Airport has announced that it is the first in the nation to offer flight training to the public on a 100% electric aircraft. Learn 2 Fly CT, in partnership with Hartford Aviation Technologies of CT, has received from the FAA an exemption that allows them to use the 100% electric Pipistrel Alpha Electro for public flight training in the United States.

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Flight 447 Lawsuits filed

A Reuters release announces that the relatives of passengers killed in an Air France crash off Brazil have filed nearly two dozen wrongful death lawsuits against Airbus, alleging that aircraft maker’s A330 crashed because of flaws in the plane and its U.S.-made components.

The search for the black boxes is supposed to be continuing now that investigators have decided on the likeliest location where they may be found. The plane originally went down 680 miles off the coast of Brazil, but in the past ten months since the tragedy, water currents dispersing the wreckage will have made the search more difficult.

An Airbus Americas spokesman has said they “will be moving to have (the lawsuit) dismissed.”

Lawyers from the Miami-based firm Podhurst Orseck has not yet responded to Airbus statements.

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Santa Monica No Authority to Ban Jet Op

After rebuffing the FAA’s offer to enhance safety areas around the airport, including the FAA’s offer to install an engineered material arresting system to accommodate 90 percent of the Category C and D aircraft utilizing the airport, Santa Monica officials defend their March 2008 ordinance to ban Category C and D jets (such as Gulfstreams and some Citations and Challengers) from operating at the airport. Santa Monica is appealing the FAA’s July 8 decision that the city had no authority to ban jet operation.

The AOPA (Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association) and the FAA oppose the ban.

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EASA Proposes Fatigue Across the Board

New European rules ‘harmonizing’ the workload limits across 27 member states could allow pilots to fly aircraft for 22 hours without sleep, increasing a pilot’s work day from 16 hours 15 minutes to 20 hours, and the maximum shift time for a long haul flight with two pilots from 12 to 14 hours, as well as eliminating the need of a third pilot on long-haol flights.

The proposals have raised the attention of BALPA, The British Airline Pilots Association.

The seventeen percent increase in workload will result in a 5.5% higher chance of an accident.

It is inconceivable how EASA can call “flying farther with less rest-time, more frequently (7 starts in a row), no back up crew and more fatigue” bringing standards “up” when it is actually leveling down safety standards. Such a workload flies in the face of the constructs of human biology.

But the UK’s Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) “has said they have no fundamental problem with the rules.”

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