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Signs of New Aviation Era are Unmistakable

From aviation’s infancy, the US military has been a leading source of aerial innovations and educator of those who put those winged aviation innovations to work. With the end of each conflict, pilots, technicians, and engineers used their training and...

Published Tue, Jan 31 2012 2:30 AM by Jetwhine

Filed under: Airlines, Airports, General, Blogging, Flight Training, Aviation Marketing, Military, General Aviation, Aviation History, Cessna 172, UAV, fighter, Defense Budget, Drone Pilots, bomber, budget, defense, drone, F-35, globalpost, warplanes
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
Southwest Offers NextGen Lesson With RNP

Reading government documents isn’t very much fun sometimes, but it often reveals informative tidbits, such as this table found on page 43 of the FAA’s NextGen Implementation Plan of March 2011 . It’s clear that GA is way behind the airlines when it comes...

Published Mon, Jun 20 2011 4:45 PM by Jetwhine

Filed under: Air Traffic Control, Airlines, Airports, FAA, Business Aviation, Southwest Airlines, General Aviation, NextGen, Next Generation Air Transportation System, Required Navigation Performance, rnp, ADS-B, comm, Data Comm, ramifications, southwest’s, van, ven
Are CFIs the Lynchpins in Keeping Aviation Alive?

Let’s be serious. When we fly on the airlines, we’re a captive audience. They can do pretty much whatever they’d like to us and we have to put up with it. But most of the time we also fly on the airlines because we must … for work, even...

Published Mon, Mar 21 2011 1:45 PM by Jetwhine

Filed under: The Buzz, Airlines, Airports, FAA, Business Aviation, Flight Training, Aviation Marketing, General Aviation, NAFI, CFI’s, SAFE, Wolfgang Pucks
Is FlightPrep Evil, or Just Wrong?

I consider Rod Rakic as a friend responsible for a number of things that have changed my life, not all for the good my wife sometimes says. Because of our first lunch together a few years ago, Rod turned me into an iPhone and later an Apple devote’...

Published Thu, Jan 6 2011 3:06 AM by Jetwhine

Filed under: Airports, Business Aviation, Blogging, Flight Training, pilots, Aviation Marketing, AOPA, General Aviation, jeppesen, MyTransponder, Rod Rakic, Coradine Aviation, Facebook, flight planning, FlightPrep, ForeFlight, NavMonster, RunwayFinder, SkyVector
Flyabout, One Movie, Two Perspectives

Editor Notes: Being based in the Midwest, Chicago in particular, makes the name Siskel and Ebert and the Movies legendary when it comes to chatter about film. While neither Scott nor I are will even attempt to compare ourselves to that dynamic celluloid...

Published Tue, Nov 2 2010 2:47 AM by Jetwhine

Filed under: The Buzz, Flight Training, pilots, General Aviation, AirVenture 2010, FlyAbout, Monika Petrillo, Aborigines, Australia, land down under, the movie
Does Parochialism Hinder Aviation’s Future

Last weekend I had the honor of being a guest on Airplane Geeks , thanks to my JetWhine.com co-conspirator Rob Mark, who is one of the quartet of regulars. It was my inaugural podcast (Episode 101), and I greatly enjoyed the wide ranging aviation conversation...

Published Thu, Jun 24 2010 6:37 AM by Jetwhine

Filed under: Airlines, Airports, FAA, Business Aviation, General, Blogging, Flight Training, Aviation Marketing, Light sport aircraft, sport aviation, LSA, Military, General Aviation, Podcast, Aviation Industry, powered parachutes, homebuilt aircraft, Airplane Geeks Podcast, Airport Access, Weight-shift Trikes
Flying in Alaska is a Little Different

It’s nice to be the editor of an aviation blog like Jetwhine.com because I’m lucky enough to connect with people from all parts of the globe, folks I would never have a chance to meet in my everyday life. A few weeks back, Josh Saul sent me...

Published Fri, Jan 15 2010 7:46 PM by Jetwhine

Filed under: The Buzz, Flight Training, General Aviation, Alaska Flying. Josh Saul, Alaska Dispatch Bush Pilots
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...

Published Sun, 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
TSA Large Aircraft Comment Period Begins

By now, most aviators are aware of the TSA’s new focus on general aviation security now that they have slapped the airlines around enough over the past five or six years that is. I’ve always thought anything that is detrimental to any sector...

Published Wed, Nov 5 2008 7:45 PM by Jetwhine

Filed under: Air Traffic Control, The Buzz, Airlines, Airports, FAA, Business Aviation, Blogging, air travel, Aviation Marketing, General Aviation, EAA Sport Aviation, TSA, Large Aircraft Security NPRM, Earl Lawrence, Air Transport Association, ATA, Department of Homeland Security
More AirVenture Blogging Buzz

And just when you think almost no one notices anything you write comes a great article like this one from FlightGlobal’s Runway Girl, Mary Kirby . She interviewed me a few days ago when she realized she wouldn’t be able to make it to Oshkosh...

Published Wed, Jul 23 2008 12:07 AM by Jetwhine

Filed under: The Buzz, Airlines, Airports, Business Aviation, Blogging, Flight Training, air travel, flight training magazine, Aviation Marketing, Light sport aircraft, General Aviation, AirVenture 2008, social media, Blog Fest, FlightGlobal, Mary Kirby, Runway Girl
AirVenture Blogger Fest Next Week

It doesn’t seem possible that it’s been nearly a year in the making, but it has. When I suggested a get together for aviation bloggers last fall I never thought I’d see much interest. But was I wrong. By Thanksgiving I’d had messages...

Published Mon, Jul 21 2008 6:56 PM by Jetwhine

Filed under: Air Traffic Control, The Buzz, Airlines, Airports, FAA, Business Aviation, Blogging, Flight Training, air travel, Aviation Marketing, Light sport aircraft, General Aviation, AirVenture 2008, social media, Jetwhine.com, Oshkosh Wisconsin, Web 2.0, Twitter
Cessna Pilot Centers May be GA’s Last Hope for Reversing Pilot Population Decline

Reversing the decline of the pilot population “is the most important thing we are addressing,” says Cessna Pilot Center Manager Julie Boatman. “We have several things in development that I’m not quite ready to talk about yet,”...

Published Thu, May 22 2008 1:09 PM by Jetwhine

Filed under: The Buzz, Airports, General, Blogging, Flight Training, Aviation Marketing, Light sport aircraft, sport aviation, Pilot Population, Sport Pilot, Learn to Fly, Cessna Pilot Center, General Aviation

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Signs of New Aviation Era are Unmistakable

Mr. Babbitt Needs to Get in Shape

Southwest Offers NextGen Lesson With RNP

Are CFIs the Lynchpins in Keeping Aviation Alive?

Is FlightPrep Evil, or Just Wrong?

Flyabout, One Movie, Two Perspectives

Does Parochialism Hinder Aviation’s Future

Flying in Alaska is a Little Different

Artful Flying

TSA Large Aircraft Comment Period Begins

More AirVenture Blogging Buzz

AirVenture Blogger Fest Next Week

Cessna Pilot Centers May be GA’s Last Hope for Reversing Pilot Population Decline