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• PBI ATC: One Bad Apple Won’t Spoil the Bunch

  One of t he truly enjoyable parts of life – for me at least – is the chance to travel often aboard a business airplane. If I’m not in the left seat, I’m usually pretty close as I was last week on board an Embraer Lineage enroute from West Palm Beach Florida... Posted Nov 20 2009, 02:56 AM by Jetwhine Filed under: Air Traffic Control, The Buzz, Airlines, Airports, FAA, Business Aviation

• Ag Interest Reveals Risk Management Handbook

  Ag flying has always interested me because it is one of the last bastions of professional stick and rudder flying. Sure, technology has infiltrated the cockpit, but here it replaces the flagman (human or otherwise) who helps the pilot apply even coverage... Posted Oct 29 2009, 03:40 AM by Jetwhine Filed under: Air Traffic Control, Airlines, Airports, FAA, Business Aviation, General, Blogging, Flight Training, Northwest Airlines, FAA Safety Team, Aeronautical Decision Making, flight safety, pilot sleep, ag flying, aerial application

• Who Will Fly for America Tomorrow?

  So, you wanna be a professional pilot, huh? Despite the economy, there will be a good number of vacant cockpit seats in the next decade or so as the last of the baby boomer bulge reaches 65, the airline pilot retirement age. If you are a Wall Street bonus... Posted Oct 20 2009, 01:01 PM by Jetwhine Filed under: The Buzz, Airlines, Airports, FAA, Blogging, Flight Training, Aviation Marketing, pilot shortage, Pilot Population, Airline Safety and Pilot Training Improvement Act of 2009, Sallie Mae, Student pilot loans

• NPRM Points to Flight Training’s Future

  In the August 31, 2009 Federal Register, the FAA published Notice of Proposed Rulemaking 09-08, Pilot in Command Proficiency Check and Other Changes to the Pilot and Pilot School Certification Rules . Its seemingly disparate proposals regarding flight... Posted Sep 16 2009, 04:45 AM by Jetwhine Filed under: Airlines, FAA, Business Aviation, General, Blogging, Flight Training, Aviation Marketing, Light sport aircraft, VLJ, Flight School, Private Pilot, Pilot Training, very light jets, instrument rating, PIC proficiency checks, FAA NPRM, pilot checkrides

• Stuck on an Airport Ramp? – "You Can’t Fix Stupid!"

  For some time, I have stood firmly on the side of the people who believe a law is needed to keep airline passengers from ending up trapped on the ramp inside an airplane for hours at a time. But I think I’m starting to be swayed. Part of my ambivalence... Posted Sep 03 2009, 05:42 PM by Jetwhine Filed under: The Buzz, Airlines, Airports, FAA, Aviation Marketing

• Pilots: Who Needs Them?

  Qualified professionals to operate the world’s fleet of new, high-technology aircraft are more necessary than ever before, despite a growing proliferation of UAVs. Unfortunately, airline management and their pilots are not always on the same page... Posted Aug 03 2009, 10:55 PM by Jetwhine Filed under: Air Traffic Control, Airlines, FAA, Business Aviation, Blogging, Flight Training, NATCA, Aviation Marketing, air traffic controllers, ALPA, airline pilot, business aviation pilots

• Social Media Gets Serious at AirVenture

  Broadcasting from high atop the massive MyTransponder mobile HQ the other night on the grounds at AirVenture 2009, I managed to add my two cents to a pretty nice Episode 58 of the Airplane Geeks podcast that I now co-host with Max Flight and Dan Webb... Posted Jul 29 2009, 05:47 PM by Jetwhine Filed under: Air Traffic Control, Airlines, Airports, FAA, Blogging, Flight Training, sport aviation, Podcast

• AvWeek’s Biz Av Lady on Vacation

  My thanks to AvWeek’s Benet Wilson for allowing me a little space on her blog while she was out on vacation. I’ll try and coax her to write something for Jetwhine. Rob GUEST POST: Business Aviation Is Still a Secret Posted by Benet Wilson... Posted Jul 18 2009, 05:18 AM by Jetwhine Filed under: Airlines, Airports, Business Aviation, Blogging, Flight Training, air travel, Aviation Marketing, Barry LaBov, NBAA, Labov and Beyond Marketing, Benet Wilson, Aviation Now, AvWeekBenet, Ed Bolen

• Cute as a Button for AirVenture 2009

  Some folks really believe that the hit of this month’s AirVenture is going to be the arrival of the Airbus A380 at AeroShell Square. And no, the big deal this year is not going to be EAA’s director of public relations *** Knapinski dancing... Posted Jul 13 2009, 03:49 AM by Jetwhine Filed under: Airlines, Airports, Business Aviation, Blogging, Aviation Marketing, dick knapinski, MyTransponder, AirVenture 2009, artistmac, Ryan Keough, Ken Smith Illustration, Cutter Aviation, airplanegeeks

• Artful Flying

  One thing you never want to do is give me a book to review. I read them quickly, but often take forever to getting around to telling people what I thought of the experience, which pretty much defeats the purpose of the review … at least from the... Posted Jun 28 2009, 11:41 PM by Jetwhine Filed under: Airlines, Blogging, Flight Training, air travel, airline pilots, Aviation Marketing, Light sport aircraft, General Aviation, Artful Flying, Airbus A380, Michael Maya Charles

• Dear FAA: Is the Administrator In Please?

  One of Jetwhine’s earliest supporters - Matt Thurber - sent us this piece, one that I’m happy to publish. Matt is an old friend and a senior editor at Aviation International News , where I’m also a long-time contributor. This piece would... Posted Jun 13 2009, 02:11 PM by Jetwhine Filed under: The Buzz, Airlines, FAA, aviation safety, NATCA, FAA Public Affairs, Ray LaHood, Aviation International News, Matt Thurber, airline safety, Randy Babbitt

• The Southwest Effect in Ireland?

  For as long as I can remember, Southwest Airlines, now the largest U.S. domestic airline, created in the 1970s by Herb Kelleher and Rollin King, has been the low-cost airline others most want to emulate. The need to copy isn’t just about money,... Posted Jun 08 2009, 10:00 PM by Jetwhine Filed under: The Buzz, Airlines, Airports, General, air travel, airline, Southwest Airlines, airline pilots, Aviation Marketing, airline marketing, Ryanair, airline passengers, Herb Kelleher, Michael O’Leary

• A380: Quite a Ride

  I was privileged to have been invited to fly the Airbus A380 in Toulouse last week. I think it took about 4 seconds for me to decide when I was asked if I wanted the job of flying, evaluating and then writing up my findings on a few new pieces of on-board... Posted Jun 02 2009, 03:31 AM by Jetwhine Filed under: The Buzz, Airlines, Airports, Business Aviation, Blogging

• Are Tower Controllers an Endangered Species?

  Years ago in another life, I was a VFR tower controller at a number of then really busy airports, Chicago Palwaukee (now Chicago Executive), Chicago DuPage, Chicago Meigs and Miami Opa-Locka. As a pilot and a newly minted flight instructor, I always enjoyed... Posted Jun 01 2009, 04:57 AM by Jetwhine Filed under: Air Traffic Control, The Buzz, Airlines, Airports, FAA, pilots, ATC, NATCA, VFR Tower, UAVs

• Corporate Flying is New Pilots’ Career Goals

  After reading reports of faltering flight schools , I wandered over to the Fox Valley Technical College’s aviation campus on the Wittman Regional Airport in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, to see how things were going in flyover country. Not so bad, it seems... Posted May 25 2009, 06:45 AM by Jetwhine Filed under: The Buzz, Airlines, Airports, Business Aviation, General, Blogging, Flight Training, Aviation Marketing, Student Starts, Fox Valley Technical College, FlexJets, Corporate Aviation, NetJets, Flight Schools