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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, Airlines, Airports, Business Aviation, FAA, The Buzz

• FAA & Test Takers a Step Closer to Learning

  Tests are an important part of the learning process because they assess the knowledge students have acquired—and retained. This measurement is as important for students as it is for teacher. As anyone who’s taught any subject for the past century or so... Posted Nov 17 2009, 04:48 AM by Jetwhine Filed under: Airports, Aviation Marketing, Blogging, CATS, FAA, FAA Knowledge Tests, LaserGrade, student pilots, Subject Matter Codes, General, FAA Test Reports, flight instructors, Flight Training

• Proverbs for Powered Flight’s Second Century

  Aviation is all about change, and it makes rapid advances in short spurts of time. World War I was once such spurt, and World War II was another. Capabilities soared and crew size shrank as progress took the place of navigators and radio operators. The... Posted Nov 10 2009, 01:34 PM by Jetwhine Filed under: Air Traffic Control, Airports, Aviation Marketing, Blogging, aviation safety, avionics technology, FAA, GPS navigation, situational awareness, General, Pilot in Command, pilot logbooks, powered flight, Flight Training

• Warning! Read Technology’s Fine Print

  Preparing for my first encounter with a new (to me) integrated avionics system, I dove into the system’s reference guide with eager anticipation. With a PFD, MFD, and FMS keypad this baby had all the bells, whistles, and databases that qualify it as a... Posted Nov 03 2009, 04:35 AM by Jetwhine Filed under: Air Traffic Control, Airports, Aviation Marketing, Blogging, avionics technology, FAA, GPS navigation, Integrated avionics system, General, Pilot Training, terrain avoidance, Flight Training

• 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: Aeronautical Decision Making, ag flying, Air Traffic Control, Airlines, Airports, Blogging, Business Aviation, FAA, Northwest Airlines, General, pilot sleep, FAA Safety Team, aerial application, flight safety, Flight Training

• 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: Airline Safety and Pilot Training Improvement Act of 2009, Airlines, Airports, Aviation Marketing, Blogging, FAA, Sallie Mae, Student pilot loans, The Buzz, Pilot Population, pilot shortage, Flight Training

• Chance of Better Aviation Future is 51%

  In the grand scheme of American aviation, at least as the FAA sees it, amateur-built aircraft aren’t even on the radar sweeping through regulated skies. Created in home workshops and comparatively unfettered by the bureaucracy, these flying machines have... Posted Oct 13 2009, 04:36 AM by Jetwhine Filed under: 51-percent rule, Airports, Amateur-built Aircraft, aviation innovation, Aviation Marketing, Blogging, EAA, FAA, homebuilding, sport aviation, Kit Aircraft, General

• Visual Distractions Still Affect Flight Safety

  When I learned to fly back in the mid 1970s, the airspace over the LA Basin was pretty crowded. Because of the smog that then reduced the visibility to some degree every day, most aviators were usually quite serious about seeing and avoiding each other... Posted Oct 06 2009, 06:06 AM by Jetwhine Filed under: Air Traffic Control, Airports, Aviation Marketing, Blogging, Business Aviation, aviation safety, Aviation Safety Reporting System, Callback, FAA, NASA Form, see-and-avoid traffic avoidance, situational awareness, General, Flight Training

• Brennand Airport: A Work in Perpetuity

  Owning and operating an airport was never one of Ted Vander Wielen’s life goals. But in 1995, Ted says, he learned that Bill Brennand was retiring and selling the airport he built 10 miles north of Oshkosh in 1968. The only party interested in buying... Posted Sep 30 2009, 04:32 AM by Jetwhine Filed under: airport survival, Airports, Aviation Marketing, Blogging, country airport, EAA AirVenture, Light sport aircraft, private airport, sport aviation, General, Oshkosh, Brennand Airport, Flight Training

• Sonex Onex Overshadowed by R&D Stars

  Unveiling the projects gestating in the Sonex R&D department, the Hornet’s Nest , during EAA AirVenture Oshkosh, the SubSonex jet and E-Flight Power System (covered last week in Jet & ESA Fly From Sonex Hornet’s Nest) got all the attention... Posted Sep 10 2009, 05:09 AM by Jetwhine Filed under: Airports, Aviation Marketing, Blogging, E-Flight Power System, folding wings, Homebuilt Airplane, Light sport aircraft, light-sport aircraft, LSA, Sensinich Propeller, Sonex Aircraft, sport aviation, Sport Pilot, SubSonex Jet, The Buzz, General, Electric Airplanes, electronic ignition, Onex, Flight Training

• 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: Airlines, Airports, Aviation Marketing, FAA, The Buzz

• Jet & ESA Fly From Sonex Hornet’s Nest

  At EAA AirVenture Oshkosh, Sonex Aircraft pulled back the curtain on its research and development department, called the Hornet’s Nest , and unveiled three projects it’s been working on for the past handful of years. One of them the E-Flight Power System... Posted Aug 31 2009, 02:34 PM by Jetwhine Filed under: Airports, Aviation Marketing, Blogging, EAA AirVenture Oshkosh, E-Flight Power System, FAA, Light sport aircraft, light-sport aircraft, LSA, Sonex Aircraft, sport aviation, Sport Pilot, SubSonex Jet, The Buzz, General, Electric Airplanes, Onex, Flight Training

• 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, Blogging, FAA, Podcast, sport aviation, Flight Training

• 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: air travel, Airlines, Airports, Aviation Marketing, AvWeekBenet, Barry LaBov, Benet Wilson, Blogging, Business Aviation, Ed Bolen, Aviation Now, Labov and Beyond Marketing, NBAA, Flight Training

• 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, airplanegeeks, Airports, AirVenture 2009, artistmac, Aviation Marketing, Blogging, Business Aviation, Cutter Aviation, dick knapinski, Ken Smith Illustration, MyTransponder, Ryan Keough