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New FAA Wings Program Stresses Proficiency, Not Award

During the late 1990s I participated in the FAA Pilot Proficiency Award Program. Each year, in return for attending one safety seminar and logging three hours with an instructor (one each for airwork, patternwork, and hoodwork) I met the biennial flight...

Published Mon, Aug 25 2008 2:43 PM by Jetwhine

Filed under: The Buzz, Airports, FAA, General, Blogging, Flight Training, aviation safety, Aviation Marketing, Light sport aircraft, sport aviation, Wings Program, Pilot Safety, Pilot Training, Recurrent Training, FAA Pilot Proficiency Program
Flying Snoopy’s New Airship

Finally, a topic I know almost nothing about … flying a blimp, or as it is more commonly known in FAA language, an airship. This well-produced short video tour and introductory flying lesson of the newest of the MetLife airships , the Snoopy 3,...

Published Fri, Aug 22 2008 3:19 PM by Jetwhine

Filed under: The Buzz, air travel, Light sport aircraft, Learn to Fly, Snoopy, MetLife, blimp
Controllers Work Less Air Traffic Now Than in 2000

Before you all begin sending shipping the uglygrams, let me tell you that neither the title of today’s editorial, nor the concept behind it originated with me. The idea that air traffic controllers are working less traffic these days - as well as...

Published Wed, Aug 20 2008 1:36 PM by Jetwhine

Filed under: Air Traffic Control, The Buzz, FAA, air travel, NATCA, Bobby Sturgell, AirVenture 2008, Labor contract
Gemini Diesel Engine Attracts Industry’s Eye

At first glance the Gemini 100 looks like a compact water-cooled aircraft engine with four opposing cylinders. Narrow and not very tall or deep, it’s roughly the same size as a Continental O-200 and has the same output, 100 hp. That’s where...

Published Mon, Aug 18 2008 1:34 PM by Jetwhine

Filed under: The Buzz, light-sport aircraft, Continental O-200, Powerplant Developments, Tecnam P92 Eaglet, Lycoming O-235, Gemini Diesel Engine
Fun Flyer Lands Roll in new Amelia Earhart Film

If time is short, never ask *** and Sharon Starks what they’ve been up to lately. Both pilots, these retired schoolteachers have a full flying life that any pilot would envy. Anxious to see Sharon’s new airplane, a Morane Model L parasol,...

Published Wed, Aug 13 2008 7:35 PM by Jetwhine

Filed under: Airports, General, Blogging, Aviation Marketing, Light sport aircraft, sport aviation, Kansas City Dawn Patrol, movie making, Airdrome Aeroplanes, Bleriot, Morane, Amelia Earhart, Flyboys
United Pilots Give Tilton a Kick

To most people, owning a web site address with their name is something to truly covet. What better way to tell the world through a good blog what we think about everything that’s wrong or right with the world. But what happens when someone else...

Published Mon, Aug 11 2008 11:03 PM by Jetwhine

Filed under: The Buzz
John Carr Speaks to Drug Screening

The post John Carr put up yesterday about the U.S. DOT’s proposed new guidelines for administering drug tests to some aviation employees would be absolutely hilarious if it wasn’t so sick. John posted comments from the general counsel for...

Published Fri, Aug 8 2008 4:22 PM by Jetwhine

Filed under: The Buzz
One Air Traffic Controller’s Perspective on Morale

Fresh on the heels of Sunday’s post about the flavor of labor relations that led PATCO controllers to call a strike against the FAA in 1981 , I added a question I asked acting FAA administrator Bobby Sturgell about employee morale during the “Ask...

Published Wed, Aug 6 2008 12:19 AM by Jetwhine

Filed under: Air Traffic Control, The Buzz, FAA, pilots, air travel, ATC, NATCA, Bobby Sturgell, Jetwhine.com, FAA employee morale
August 3, 1981 - PATCO Strike Remembered

I remember the morning of August 3, 1981 vividly as I turned on the TV to find news stories of air traffic controller members of the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization-PATCO -marching with picket signs at the base of the tower at Chicago...

Published Sun, Aug 3 2008 6:40 PM by Jetwhine

Filed under: Air Traffic Control, The Buzz, Airlines, Airports, FAA, Business Aviation, Blogging, Flight Training, pilots, air travel, ATC, NATCA, Aviation Marketing, Light sport aircraft, FAA Public Affairs, unions, PATCO, government leadership
Cole & Kittinger: Hearing History First Hand

It seems fitting that my fourth decade of EAA AirVenture attendance starts like the first, meeting those who made the history I read about as a kid. On my first trip to Oshkosh in 1978 I met Pappy Boyington and George Gay (see EAA AirVenture Forums is...

Published Sat, Aug 2 2008 3:19 PM by Jetwhine

Filed under: The Buzz, General, Blogging, EAA AirVenture, Military, Man High, Project Excelsior, Doolittle Raid, 30 seconds over Tokyo, Dick Cole, Joe Kittinger
Ken Scott: Multitasking at Van’s Aircraft

Van’s Aircraft is a small company that’s put a big smile on faces who’ve taken to the sky in the company’s line of RVs. The handful of employees also wear big smiles, even after standing in the hot Oshkosh sun all day, because...

Published Fri, Aug 1 2008 1:12 PM by Jetwhine

Filed under: The Buzz, General, Blogging, Aviation Marketing, Light sport aircraft, sport aviation, LSA, EAA AirVenture, Van’s Aircraft, Rotax 912S, RV-12, light-sport aircraft

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New FAA Wings Program Stresses Proficiency, Not Award

Flying Snoopy’s New Airship

Controllers Work Less Air Traffic Now Than in 2000

Gemini Diesel Engine Attracts Industry’s Eye

Fun Flyer Lands Roll in new Amelia Earhart Film

United Pilots Give Tilton a Kick

John Carr Speaks to Drug Screening

One Air Traffic Controller’s Perspective on Morale

August 3, 1981 - PATCO Strike Remembered

Cole & Kittinger: Hearing History First Hand

Ken Scott: Multitasking at Van’s Aircraft