difference between before and after the Dodd-Frank Act was not the technology but more of how to refine the tools we have and have better processes in place to help compliance with these new rules and regulations. This was enacted to be a sweeping overhaul of the United Stated financial regulation system and to transform this area of the American economy. Some major provisions included in this act are, according to…
Sandi Clipton (Clipton) wishes to challenge two decisions made by the Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA). The decisions affect the operation of Sanditon Aviation Pty Ltd (Sanditon), of which Clipton is the CEO. The first decision is CASA’s rejection of Clipton’s application to renew Sanditon’s Air Operator’s Certificate (AOC). The effect is that Sanditon is unable to operate. The Civil Aviation Act 1988 (‘the CAA’) provides for merits review in this instance and potentially allows for new…
This report is about an in-flight breakup of the Sealed Composite’s SpaceShip Two during a test flight. The test flight and accident occurred on October 31, 2014 at 1007:32 Pacific daylight time over an area near Koehn Dry Lake, California. It encompasses background information of the aircraft involved, the pilots, and the type of test flight as well as the intended results. Sections of this report will also explain the actual crash to include elements and findings of the accident…
After departing from Concord, North Carolina on October 24, 2004, a business aviation aircraft, a Beech King Air 200 operated by Hendrick Motorsports failed to perform a proper approach into Martinsville, Virginia Airport. The meteorological data through the duration of that flight had been determined that warm weather had caused low visibility environment with heavy fog and vapor. While navigating through these conditions, the aircraft fatally crashed approximately 10 miles from their…
Report Questions for Kite Prototype 1. Name, describe, and provide links of the five different box kites that were found in the research. The first box kite found in the research was a traditional box kite at http://www.my-best-kite.com/box-kites.html. The traditional box kite has a square base with a longer height, and crossbars are included to support the traditional box kite. An example of lengths for a traditional box kite could be 12 inches by 12 inches by 36 inches. The second box kite,…
crash or what safety items this aircraft have in the case of any problem. “Aviation safety is a term encompassing the theory, investigation, and categorization of flight failures, and the prevention of such failures through regulation, education, and training.” (Aviation safety, 2015) If we search in the internet for the aviation safety hazards we will have many reasons and example for each reason, because in the aviation industry we are facing many danger and probabilities for failures,…
2.3.2 Human and Risk Aviation Milan (2000) studied the human risk Aviation in his paper, most accidents can be attributed to human error combined with other factors. Human errors have been present in the production, maintenance and operation of aviation hardware ranging through aircraft, airports and air traffic control facilities and equipment. Human operational errors can come about when workloads exceed work ability, e.g., in stressful situations. In aviation, working capacity primarily…
According to Regulation 2(1), ‘professional diligence refers to ‘the standard of special skill and care which a trader may reasonably be expected to exercise towards consumers, commensurate with honest market practice or the general principle of good faith in the trader…
State Versus FDA Regulation of Medical Marijuana There was a consensus amongst the interviewees that there is need for regulation of marijuana as medicine, whether that regulation be at the state or federal level—through the FDA—is where the conversations departed. While several of the interviewees discussed the pros and cons of state versus FDA regulation, listing advantages and disadvantages of one or the other, only three of the interviewees expressed a definite “yes” that marijuana as…
automobile accident, while the same person has a 1 in 7,178 chance of dying in an aircraft accident. This means a person is about 73 times more likely to be killed on the road than in the air (Locsin, 2008). The unavoidable problem of perception in aviation is that, unlike auto accidents, air disasters result in a far greater loss of life and economic cost in a single incident. While an accident on the road may make the local evening news, major aircraft accidents will likely be international…