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FAA InFO Translates Canadian ATC Lingo

In an attempt to keep current with all aspects of aviation, I subscribe to all manner of e-mail updates. In this arena, the FAA is prolifically focused. My latest discovery is the InFO, short for Information For Operators. Produced by the FAA’s Flight...

Published Thu, Mar 1 2012 1:20 AM by Jetwhine

Filed under: Air Traffic Control, Airlines, FAA, Business Aviation, General, Blogging, star, ATC Phraseology, canadian, clears, descend, FAA Flight Standards, info, NavCanada, phraseology, restrictions
Why Southwest Grabs My Business, Again and Again

Word of Mouth marketing (WOM) is a bit like the Superman of campaigns. Nothing can stop it. That’s because the company the campaign focuses on has little or nothing to do with the effort. It’s all customer driven. People recommending products...

Published Mon, Feb 27 2012 4:28 PM by Jetwhine

Filed under: The Buzz, Airlines, Airports, FAA, United Airlines, Northwest Airlines, Southwest Airlines, Aviation Marketing, American Airlines, Southwest, Nuts about Southwest, The Cranky Flier, Brett Snyder, American Airlines Advantage, cranky, loyalty, Southwest Rapid Rewards, swa, wom, Word of Mouth marketing
Will Aviation Biofuel be New Farm Subsidy?

First thing last Monday morning I read that US Department of Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack was scheduled to hold an hour-long meeting with aviation officials from Boeing, Honeywell, and United Airlines later that day at Boeing HQ. The announced agenda...

Published Mon, Jan 23 2012 3:00 AM by Jetwhine

Filed under: Airlines, FAA, Business Aviation, Blogging, Military, Alternative Jet Fuel, Biofuel, biofuels, biojet, Ethanol, gallon, Green Fleet, navy, subsidies, vilsack
Aviation: It’s ALWAYS About The Passengers

Last Saturday was not a good day for transportation, but for once the bad news was not about aviation. An immense cruise ship — the Costa Concordia — capsized in the Mediterranean Sea off the west coast of Italy where rocks near the shore...

Published Thu, Jan 19 2012 3:51 PM by Jetwhine

Filed under: Air Traffic Control, The Buzz, Airlines, Airports, FAA, Business Aviation, Flight Training, aviation safety, Light sport aircraft, Continental Airlines, 2012, captain schettino, Concorde, costa, costa concordia, owe, pilot in command responsibility, responsibility, ship
A Monkey in Our Subscription Works

A college professor of mind told me a story years ago — OK … MANY years ago — about how solving one problem often creates another. Boy … did our switch from Feedburner to Mail Chimp subscriber software — not to mention my...

Published Wed, Jan 11 2012 5:04 PM by Jetwhine

Filed under: Air Traffic Control, The Buzz, Airlines, Airports, FAA, mail, subscription, blog subscribers, chimp, jetwhine subscription, mail chimp, monkey, reconsider, subscriber, works, wrath
VOR Days Numbered in FAA Proposal

In a general sense, I knew that NextGen would be the end of the VORs that have reliably led aviators for decades. But 10 days before Christmas, the retirement of these familiar white cones is much more real. That’s when the FAA published its request for...

Published Tue, Jan 3 2012 4:00 PM by Jetwhine

Filed under: Air Traffic Control, Airlines, Airports, FAA, Blogging, Flight Training, navigation, Next Generation Air Transportation System, Performance-Based Navigation, anpt, mon, network, nextgen’s, pnt, positioning, vors
Pitch & Power and the Margin of Error

A recent issue of AOPA’s Flight School Business included this story: FAA Updates CFI Renewal Clinic Guidelines . It referenced the updated advisory circular that covers FIRCs and noted that the FAA added angle of attack (AoA) to the list of core subjects...

Published Sat, Dec 10 2011 6:18 PM by Jetwhine

Filed under: FAA, Blogging, Flight Training, CFI, student pilots, angle, Angle of Attack, aoa, attack, clinic, FIRC, Flight Instructor Renewal Clinic, inadvertently, pitch, renewal
Unmanned & Automated Aircraft: Are We Getting Too Smart for Our Own Good?

Serving the military in Afghanistan According to the The Daily Planet , the blog of Air & Space Smithsonian, in November troops in Afghanistan will likely be resupplied by the K-Max, an automated cargo helicopter. The video is from a test earlier...

Published Mon, Nov 28 2011 4:15 PM by Jetwhine

Filed under: Airlines, Airports, FAA, Blogging, Aviation Marketing, Aviation Future, Pilot Population, Military, UAV, unmanned, automated, Automated Aircraft, K-Max, messenger, prayed, Unmanned Aircraft, victory
Boeing Flight Test Engineers Get Creative

Test pilots and flight test engineers are an amazing and interesting group of people. But they are deadly serious about their work because focus and attention to detail preserves not only their lives, but those who go aloft in the aircraft they are testing...

Published Mon, Nov 21 2011 8:00 PM by Jetwhine

Filed under: Airlines, FAA, Blogging, Aviation Marketing, Flight Testing, 747, airplane—310, Boeing 747, duration, engineers, etops, Flight Test Engineers, intercontinental, Long Duration Flight, randy, test
Mr. Babbitt Needs to Get in Shape

Some functions come naturally to most humans, eating, sleeping, even defending ourselves … at least most of the time. But the message the House of Representatives just sent FAA Administrator Randy Babbitt with passage of the European Emissions Trading...

Published Wed, Oct 26 2011 9:21 PM by Jetwhine

Filed under: Air Traffic Control, The Buzz, Airlines, Airports, FAA, Business Aviation, pilots, Southwest Airlines, European Union, AOPA, General Aviation, Herb Kelleher, Randy Babbitt, NBAA, babbitt, European Emissions Trading Scheme Prohibition Act of 2011, European Emissions Trading System, Gold's Gym, scheme, trading
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
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
AOPA FTSRI Offers Hope for GA’s Future

Given its more than half century of tradition unimpeded by progress, I’ve always been cynical about the future of general aviation and its life’s blood, the flight training industry that educates new pilots. Then I attended the next-to-last regional meeting...

Published Sat, Aug 27 2011 12:47 AM by Jetwhine

Filed under: Airports, FAA, Blogging, Flight Training, Aviation Marketing, flight instructors, Flight Schools, student pilots, AOPA Flight Training Student Retention Initiative, aopa’s, attribute, attributes, challenges—initial, ftsri, retention
Voices from the DC-3 a Delightful Surprise

Throughout its life, now 75 years and counting, millions of words have been written about the iconic DC-3/C-47/R4D/Dakota. I’ve written some of them, and read most of them. So I cracked the cover on Together We Fly: Voices from the DC-3 with some trepidation...

Published Sat, Aug 20 2011 12:59 AM by Jetwhine

Filed under: Airlines, Airports, FAA, General, Blogging, Military, Aviation History, DC-3, C-47, R4D, Airline Operations, birthday, chapters, delightful, douglas, voices

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