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• When the Feds Revoke Your Pilot’s Certificate

  You NEVER, EVER want to receive a letter like this one from the FAA telling you that all your months or years of hard work and effort to win your pilot’s certificate have just gone up in smoke. After flying past Minneapolis a few weeks back, the... Posted Nov 05 2009, 01:18 AM by Jetwhine Filed under: The Buzz, FAA, Flight Training, airline pilots, air safety, GA pilots, Pilot privleges, pilot license revocation, Northwest Flight 1588

• NTSB Needs to Re-Admit NATCA to Investigation

  In life, everyone makes mistakes. Most of the time, that’s really a good thing though because it offers us a unique path to become better at what we do. Being human though, admitting we screwed something up is not always easy, it’s downright... Posted Aug 19 2009, 07:05 PM by Jetwhine Filed under: The Buzz, NATCA, air safety, Air Traffic Controller, NTSB, Teterboro Airport, Doug Church, Bob Richard, Hudson River midair collision

• It’s Awards Time for Aviation

  Every year about this time aviation writers around the globe start getting a little goose bumpy wondering if they made the cut. Making the cut means you’ve been nominated by the World Leadership Forum for the Aerospace Journalist of the Year awards... Posted May 20 2009, 05:42 PM by Jetwhine Filed under: The Buzz, Business Aviation, pilots, air travel, air safety, Mary Kirby, Business Jet Traveler, Flight Global, Aerospace Journalist of the Year, airline business, Jon Ostrower, Bill Sweetman, Patrick Veillette, David Lombardo, Mark Huber, Paris Air Show, Aviation International News

• Why Aviation Needs Smarter PR Practitioners

  Despite having spent a significant part of my life as a communicator, I know what people think about public relations. Many think it’s fluff. Some call it spin … that magical talent for transforming an often ugly issue into something else... Posted Apr 22 2008, 02:04 AM by Jetwhine Filed under: The Buzz, Airlines, Airports, FAA, air travel, Aviation Marketing, American Airlines, air safety, FAA Public Affairs, airline customer service, Mary Peters, public relations

• VLJ Training Means Thinking Differently; Survey 2

  Bob Barnes is already looking at VLJ training from a different perspective, one way he hopes to prevent a rash of human-caused accidents once aircraft deliveries surge to low-time pilots as I mentioned a few weeks back , And as the voluntary chairperson... Posted Mar 10 2008, 03:55 AM by Jetwhine Filed under: The Buzz, Flight Training, Jetwhine, air safety, Robert B. Barnes, VLJ Training

• The GAO’s Credibility on Aviation and ATC; Not Much, Who Cares

  Believe it or not, one of the tough parts of writing a good blog is knowing when to keep your mouth shut. And yes, I know there are a few readers who can’t imagine I ever keep my mouth shut, but I really do. Case in point. I had an opportunity to... Posted Feb 29 2008, 06:29 PM by Jetwhine Filed under: Air Traffic Control, The Buzz, FAA, NATCA, air safety, FAA Public Affairs, ATC Overtime, Jay Rockefeller, GAO, General Accountability Office

• ATC Overtime; FAA & Controller Perspectives

  Never in my quietest moments did I imagine the conversation about FAA and its overtime policy was going to erupt into such a round of air rage of sorts. Luckily only a few of the hostile words were directed at me personally. But the passion of the respondents... Posted Feb 18 2008, 08:05 PM by Jetwhine Filed under: Air Traffic Control, The Buzz, Airlines, Airports, FAA, Business Aviation, NATCA, ATC user fees, air safety, Laura Brown, FAA Public Affairs

• FAA’s Bobby Sturgell says Controllers Volunteer for Overtime

  As the Comedic Cuban troubadour Ricky Ricardo would often say to Lucille Ball, “it looks to me like someone has some splaining to do.” For months I’ve been sitting here defending the air traffic controller workforce against FAA’s... Posted Feb 14 2008, 03:00 PM by Jetwhine Filed under: The Buzz, Airlines, FAA, air travel, ATC, Hank Krakowski, NATCA, Bobby Sturgell, air traffic controllers, air safety