GE Aviation is celebrating passing a major production milestone for its flight-management systems. The company has just delivered its 20,000th flight-management computer, some 35 years after ...

The FAA issued SAFO 13002, “Manual Flight Operations,” in 2013 and updated it in 2017 with SAFO 17007, “Manual Flight Operations Proficiency,” in 2017.

Manual flying is defined as flight path management using pitch, yaw, roll and thrust, with the use of a flight director and autothrottles optional.

In the over 1,600-page flight manual of Boeing's 737 Max 8 planes, the aircraft's new MCAS computer system, now at the centre of the investigations into two deadly crashes, is mentioned only once ...

US investigators are examining a United Airlines Boeing 737 Max 9's flight-management computer after an incident in which the system's displays apparently blanked before the aircraft inadvertently ...