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North Dakota Aviation: Front Door to Growth

Lately there hasn’t been much good news about aviation, general or otherwise. Then I went to North Dakota for a story on a one-tech avionics shop halfway between Fargo and Bismarck. A flight school was setting up in the next hangar, an indicator of better...

Published Mon, Sep 26 2011 12:24 AM by Jetwhine

Filed under: Airports, Business Aviation, General, Blogging, Flight Training, Aviation Marketing, Pilot Population, CFI, flight instructors, dakota, commission, Flight Training Assistance Plan, North Dakota Aeronautic Commission, passport
Anniversaries: The Good, the Bad and the Great

Sometime next month, a few anniversaries begin jumping out at me. And no, my 20th wedding anniversary doesn’t pop up til next spring, but I’m told I can still choose between China and Platinum trinkets with my Happy Meals. I was actually thinking...

Published Wed, Sep 21 2011 1:07 AM by Jetwhine

Filed under: Air Traffic Control, The Buzz, Airlines, Airports, FAA, General, Blogging, Aviation Marketing, Midway Airlines, Allen Howell, Brazilian midair collision, Corporate Flight Management, Daniel Bachmann, Jetwhine’s anniversary, Joe Sharky
Airlines Not Only Ones Addicted to Autopilot

September started with an AP story that revealed the cost of airline cockpit automation , atrophied stick and rudder skills. As one might expect, there’s been a lot of comment on both sides of the argument. Some GA types have been, without justification...

Published Thu, Sep 15 2011 12:00 PM by Jetwhine

Filed under: Airlines, Airports, FAA, Blogging, Flight Training, Aviation Marketing, Autopilot, Aviation Technology, automation, “stick, addicted, atrophy, Automation Addiction, Autopilots, demo, Pilot Skill Atrophy, time”, twisting
Flying Job Scales Tilt Toward Pilots

When I wrote the second edition of Professional Pilot Career Guide a few years back, a great economy was in full swing with many more flying jobs than there were pilots to accept. If it had not been for the economy taking a nosedive in 2008, the pilot...

Published Tue, Sep 13 2011 3:45 AM by Jetwhine

Filed under: The Buzz, Airlines, Business Aviation, Blogging, Flight Training, airline pilots, Aviation Marketing, American Airlines, American, pilot careers, American Eagle, dream, eagle, fltops, Fltops.com, louis, louis smith, smith, wages, won’t
Celebrate a Century of Aviation Achievement

To appreciate what we have—and how far we’ve come, now is the time to celebrate the centennials of aviation’s many achievements. In the process, we might attract some new participants, which is surely aviation’s more pressing concern as it marches into...

Published Wed, Sep 7 2011 10:00 PM by Jetwhine

Filed under: Airports, General, Blogging, Aviation Marketing, Bleriot, Aviation History, Austin Straubel International Airport, Bleriot XI, celebrate, Centennial of Flight, curtiss, Curtiss Model D, fiz, Green Bay, state—wisconsin, straubel, vin, Vin Fiz, wahf, Wisconsin, Wisconsin Aviation Hall of Fame, Wright Model B
Labor Day 2011

In our house when I was a kid, Labor Day was always a big celebration. My father retired at age 65 from life as a union plasterer, a profession few people can even define today. My grandfather on my mom’s side, John Kikulski, was one of the first presidents...

Published Mon, Sep 5 2011 6:14 PM by Jetwhine

Filed under: Air Traffic Control, The Buzz, Airlines, FAA, Business Aviation, Blogging, pilots, NATCA, Aviation Marketing, ALPA, PATCO, Labor Day, American jobs, John Kikulski, labor, Pullman Strike, unemplyment

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North Dakota Aviation: Front Door to Growth

Anniversaries: The Good, the Bad and the Great

Airlines Not Only Ones Addicted to Autopilot

Flying Job Scales Tilt Toward Pilots

Celebrate a Century of Aviation Achievement

Labor Day 2011