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Janet, Just Tell the Nice Pilot You’re Sorry

When Janelle from CNN called for my opinion of the latest aviation security boondoggle, I had to admit I knew very little about the incident. The story focused on the Sacramento-based airline pilot who secretly recorded a security door in the terminal...

Published Tue, Dec 28 2010 3:16 AM by Jetwhine

Filed under: Air Traffic Control, The Buzz, Airlines, Airports, FAA, Business Aviation, Aviation Marketing, TSA, 9/11, Aviation Security, CNN, DHS, FFDO, Fran Townsend, Janet Napolitano, Pogo
The Atlantic Takes GA View of Coal

General aviation is so rarely a supporting player in larger stories that this occurrence quickly captures your attention. Reading Dirty Coal, Clean Future in the December 2010 issue of The Atlantic, James Fallows wrote: “When I have traveled at low altitude...

Published Thu, Dec 23 2010 2:00 AM by Jetwhine

Filed under: Airports, Business Aviation, General, Blogging, Aviation Marketing, James Fallows, Cirrus Aircraft, atlantic, coal, Coal Mining, dirty, fallows, james, mining, regions—west, The Atlantic Magazine, virginia
Air Traffic Control: Over-Controlling

The service delivered by some ATC facilities today is just not what it used to be in the old days before the PATCO strike. There, I said it. Having been around in the old days – like the 70s – when traffic at most towers was insane by today’s standards...

Published Mon, Dec 20 2010 3:51 PM by Jetwhine

Filed under: Air Traffic Control, The Buzz, Airports, FAA, Business Aviation, Blogging, Flight Training, NATCA, Aviation Marketing, kdpa, kenosha, kenw, kpwk, kugn, towers, vfr, waukegan
CPC Training Sets Customer Service Baseline

Customer service, as the AOPA student retention survey recently reaffirmed , plays an important role in the student pilot dropout rate. As anyone who has called or visited more than one flight school can attest, the quality of customer service—good, bad...

Published Tue, Dec 14 2010 7:29 PM by Jetwhine

Filed under: Airports, General, Blogging, Flight Training, Aviation Marketing, Pilot Population, CFI, customer service, AOPA Aviation Summit, Pilot Dropouts, baseline, Cessna Pilot Centers, cpc, customer, service—good
Fixing Flight Training: the FT-IEP

Introduced in Fixing Flight Training: What You Can Do Now!, the flight training individual education plan, or FT-IEP, can be initiated by students, instructors, or flight schools. It has the potential to alleviate three of the four dropout motivators...

Published Tue, Dec 7 2010 2:00 AM by Jetwhine

Filed under: Airports, FAA, Business Aviation, General, Blogging, Flight Training, Aviation Marketing, Pilot Population, CFI, AOPA Aviation Summit, Student Pilot Dropouts, Student Pilot Retention, iep
Fixing Flight Training: What You Can Do Now!

In the overwhelming number of comments to last week’s Aviation Has the CFIs it Deserves , pilots, instructors, and flight school owners clearly confirmed the veracity of AOPA’s survey that identified the leading causes of aviation’s 80-percent dropout...

Published Thu, Dec 2 2010 10:00 AM by Jetwhine

Filed under: Airports, FAA, Business Aviation, General, Blogging, Flight Training, Aviation Marketing, Pilot Population, CFI, AOPA Aviation Summit, fsbn, Student Pilot Dropouts, Student Pilot Retention

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Janet, Just Tell the Nice Pilot You’re Sorry

The Atlantic Takes GA View of Coal

Air Traffic Control: Over-Controlling

CPC Training Sets Customer Service Baseline

Fixing Flight Training: the FT-IEP

Fixing Flight Training: What You Can Do Now!