Maintaining Instrument Flight Rules (IFR) proficiency is challenging, with skills easily lost, and pilots must meet FAR 61.57(c) recency requirements, which can be accomplished in aircraft or approved ...

A fatal accident demonstrates the critical importance of strictly adhering to Instrument Flight Rules (IFR) departure procedures to ensure terrain and obstacle clearance, even for instrument-rated ...

The Federal Aviation Administration has launched the FAA Mobile Clearance trial, allowing general and business aviation ...

ATLANTA—Airbus plans to develop a single-engine instrument flight rules (IFR) capability for its H125 light helicopter, following in the footsteps of competitors such as Bell and Leonardo. The IFR ...

With a cockpit upgrade including a three-axis autopilot from Genesys Aerosystems, the IFR-certified H125 will operate more flexibly. Airbus and Genesys Aerosystems are making the H125 helicopter ...

Airbus Helicopters has secured US Federal Aviation Administration certification for single-pilot instrument flight rules capability on its H125 light-single. The move paves the way for deliveries to ...

LYON—Elixir Aircraft, after having started Elixir two-seater deliveries to Airbus Flight Academy Europe in their new glass-cockpit version, is pressing on with the development of an instrument flight ...