Business Aviation Posts

As an author, I pay pretty close attention to discussions about copyright and royalties. And aviation industry folks should be very afraid too since the Feds at the U.S. Copyright Office’s Copyright Royalty Board are trying to sink Internet Ra…

A week sure flies when you’re having fun. I just returned from the Paris Airshow where among other things, I had an opportunity to fly Dassault’s new Falcon 7X. More on that later.If you’ve never been to Paris, you might be thinki…

Most of the time I find myself constantly juggling a series of stories trying to decide which is the most important to write about here on Jetwhine.com. Today though, the decision was easy.About 10 this morning the DHL folks dropped off a box fill…

It really pains me to say something good about United Airlines when I look back at the history of lousy service I’ve had from them over the years, from canceled flights, to unexplained delays for mechanicals.  Probably too, it’s the indi…

When Joe LePore and Jan Paladino — the two U.S. Legacy pilots, where released from house arrest in Brazil late last year, everyone wondered if they’d ever be called back to testify. And let’s face it, we’ve all wondered what we&#…

In all the years I’ve been regularly flying airplanes above 10,000 feet, I’ve never experienced high-altitude/hypoxia training beyond reading the section of the Flight Training Handbook and hearing a few lectures about the dangers of wha…

What a difference a letter makes.In yet another dose of infinite wisdom, the FAA recently transformed millions of dollars worth of avionics into window boxes when it released the updated “A” version of AC 90-100. The Advisory Circular…

This story would actually be funny if it weren’t such a sad reminder of miserable state of air traffic control in Brazil.When Pope Benedict left Brazil on Sunday aboard an Alitalia flight, he wanted to send one final good will message to his …

Being a passenger on board an airplane that barely escapes becoming a pile of twisted metal and flesh would probably be enough to drive most men’s passions for air safety, at least that’s what I’d say about Joe Sharkey.Sharkey, th…

You just have to love the Brazilian government.After eight months of pilot and air traffic controller interviews, the Federal Police there seem to have decided the only logical reason for last fall’s midair collision over the rainforest was t…

Henry Ogrodzinski thinks the FAA’s Valentine’s Day funding legislation is “a solution in search of a problem.” He’s the president and CEO of NASAO, the National Association of State Aviation Officials. We caught up with…

When I was asked a few months ago to run a workshop about airport marketing and new media for the Texas Aviation Conference in Corpus Christi I was pretty excited. The Texas Department of Transportation folks put on a great event and have always mad…

When the City of Chicago’s Department of Aviation destroyed Meigs Field in the middle of the night a few years ago, it transformed KCGX into a poster child for the failure of both pro and anti-airport groups to work together successfully. With…

Air Line Pilots Association President John Prater recently painted a bleak picture of airline travel for the upcoming tourist season, “This summer is going to be brutal,” he told Air Transport World Online. Prater believes this summer w…

I received quite a few private pieces of mail about my post on the Brazilian air traffic controller issue last week, so I thought I’d share something I learned after speaking with Marc Baumgartner, president of the International Federation of …

Just when pilots and flight departments began to breath a little easier about flying outside the U.S. comes word that the Brazilian air traffic control is finally coming unglued, much the way many predicted after the midair collision over the rainfo…

Airlines are Pulling Out All the Stops FAA Administrator Marion Blakey expressed surprise recently at the heat her user-fee proposal generated so far with industry professionals, but also from Congress.Blakey was shocked … shocked mind you, …

Andrew H. Broom and I don’t know each other. We’ve never met and I don’t owe him any money, nor he any to me. At least none that I recall. What we do have in common is an infatuation with an incredible airplane concept and the nee…

No one I know disagrees with the need to constantly upgrade the U.S. air traffic control system. We all know system demand is on the rise. We just disagree on who should pay, how much they should pay and whether of course the sky is actually falling…