Tag: Air Safety

Lack of In-Person Medical Screenings for Pilots a Concern, Says Advocacy Group

The federal government has no intention of bringing back regular in-person medical exams for pilots, a move decried by an air safety advocacy group. “It’s long past time to return to full, annual in-person medicals,” says pilot Greg Hill from the organization Free to Fly. Currently Transport Canada requires a pilot holding a medical certificate…


Delta CEO Calls on Lawmakers to Support FAA to Modernize Air Traffic Control Systems

Delta Air Lines CEO Edward Bastian called on lawmakers to find a way to give assistance to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) in updating air traffic control systems. Bastian made his comments during a fourth-quarter earnings call, where he discussed the recent outage of the Notice to Air Missions (NOTAM) system outage that took place…