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Adventure and the Future of Flying

Celebrating her birthday at our favorite brewpub, my wife was spending part of the quarter-billion dollar Powerball lottery prize just before the drawing that gave it to a Missouri convenience store worker instead of her and a pool of coworkers. Sharing...

Published Thu, Apr 29 2010 4:09 AM by Jetwhine

Filed under: Airlines, Airports, FAA, General, Blogging, Flight Training, Aviation Marketing, Light sport aircraft, Military, Learning to fly, student pilots, Aerobatics, Aviation Adventure, Millennial Generation, Steve Canyon
Airlines and Ashes

With tens of thousands of travelers stranded all over much of the Western Hemisphere still trying to either get to or from major European destinations last week, airline management became understandably tense at what was indeed the worst travel crisis...

Published Fri, Apr 23 2010 10:16 PM by Jetwhine

Filed under: The Buzz, air safety, airline safety, professional pilots, London Heathrow, volcanic ash, aircraft engine failures
Do Pilots Still Use the E-6B Whiz Wheel?

Recently I received a release from Sporty’s Pilot Shop about its new CD or downloadable training course, Virtual Tips & Tricks for the Manual E6B . Not a week or so later I read that Sporty’s will soon have its iPhone E-6B app ready for download,...

Published Tue, Apr 20 2010 5:11 AM by Jetwhine

Filed under: FAA, General, Blogging, Flight Training, Aviation Marketing, Light sport aircraft, student pilots, E6B flight computer, National Intercollegiate Flying Association, whiz wheel flight computer, SAFECON
Rightsizing Aviation: Doing Less With More

For the past week or so a number of us have been engaged in an ongoing discussion on flight training, inspired by Pro Pilot Training Evolving to Industry Needs , about the forthcoming end Danny Webster’s program. This discussion has focused on training...

Published Thu, Apr 15 2010 5:36 AM by Jetwhine

Filed under: Air Traffic Control, Airlines, Airports, FAA, Business Aviation, General, Blogging, Flight Training, United Airlines, Aviation Marketing, US Airways, Des Moines Flying Service, NextGen National Airspace System, Airline Mergers, Aviation Transition, Radar-Based ATC
Hope & Cynicism for EAA’s Learn-to-Fly Day

For more than two decades the GA industry and the companies that make a living from it have launched a handful of programs designed to get people who look up to act on their aviation interests. When Flight Training magazine was launched in 1989, it luckily...

Published Mon, Apr 12 2010 3:52 AM by Jetwhine

Filed under: Airports, FAA, General, Blogging, Flight Training, flight training magazine, Aviation Marketing, Light sport aircraft, sport aviation, Flight School, Sport Pilot, AOPA, EAA, EAA Chapters, International Learn to Fly Day, aviation community
FAA: A Prozac-Induced Change to Business?

The nice folks at Fox and Friends asked me to join a debate last Saturday morning about the new FAA rule allowing some pilots to fly while taking anti-depressant medications such as Prozac, Lexipro, Zoloft and Celexa, all designed to treat the symptoms...

Published Wed, Apr 7 2010 4:04 AM by Jetwhine

Filed under: The Buzz, drugs, haldeman, depressants, prozac, anti, depression

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Adventure and the Future of Flying

Airlines and Ashes

Do Pilots Still Use the E-6B Whiz Wheel?

Rightsizing Aviation: Doing Less With More

Hope & Cynicism for EAA’s Learn-to-Fly Day

FAA: A Prozac-Induced Change to Business?