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Getting Reacquainted With NASA Callback

Cleaning out an old flight bag, in a long unvisited pocket I found a NASA form that must be more than a decade old. I was flying more than I do now, and I always carried the form in case I needed to submit the details of some inadvertent stupid pilot...

Posted Oct 13 2008, 01:42 PM by Jetwhine

Filed under: Air Traffic Control, Airports, FAA, Business Aviation, General, Blogging, Flight Training, Aviation Marketing, Light sport aircraft, sport aviation, Pilot Safety, Aviation Safety Reporting System, NASA Form, FAA Enforcement, Callback

LSA Surpasses Expectations at Oshkosh FBO

In no uncertain terms, Toby Kamark and Jeff Gentz see light-sport aircraft as the future of general aviation. It’s time for a new generation to succeed the old, and this change is happening now, they said. Sport pilot is the key to getting people...

Posted Oct 08 2008, 09:30 PM by Jetwhine

Filed under: Airports, Business Aviation, General, Blogging, Flight Training, Aviation Marketing, Light sport aircraft, sport aviation, LSA, Sport Pilot, aircraft sales, Orion Sport Aircraft, Orion Flight Services, light-sport aicraft, Remos GX

Southwest Airlines: In a Category of Its Own

In Jetwhine’s first official podcast add-on to the post below, editor Rob Mark takes a close look at what makes Southwest Airlines so successful. Read More...

Posted Oct 07 2008, 04:05 AM by Jetwhine

Filed under: Southwest Airlines, Podcast

Southwest Airlines: In a Category of It’s Own

I had a ringside seat last week to many of the inner workings at Southwest Airlines when I was invited - along with a bunch of other journalists - to the airline’s media day. No matter how many times I interact with Southwest employees, they continue...

Posted Oct 06 2008, 04:04 AM by Jetwhine

Filed under: The Buzz, Airports, Business Aviation, Blogging, pilots, air travel, Jetwhine, Southwest Airlines, Aviation Marketing, American Airlines, PR News, Midway Airport

Remember When ALL the Pilots Were Men?

A buddy of mine - Mal Gormley - sent this over today and I just had to pass it on. Here’s a shot of the largest aircraft in the USAF fleet, the C-5 Galaxy. And don’t ask if it’s an “A” or a “B” model because I...

Posted Oct 04 2008, 05:52 PM by Jetwhine

Filed under: The Buzz, pilots, air travel, Jetwhine, C-5 Galaxy, women pilots, US Air Force

In Defense of the Contract Pilot

Do you know this guy? He’s Jeff Beck, a contract pilot of some renown. Contract pilots essentially lead a vagabond life from airplane to airplane until they’re no longer needed with no single place to really call home. They wait only for the...

Posted Oct 01 2008, 05:06 AM by Jetwhine

Filed under: The Buzz, Business Aviation, air travel, Jetwhine.com, Pilot Training, Jeff Beck, contract pilots

Rare Fw-190 Part Found in Rural Kansas

When I traveled recently to rural eastern Kansas to write and shoot a profile for Aviation for Women , the magazine of Women In Aviation International , holding the last surviving part of a Focke-Wulf Fw 190 was the last thing I expected to do. But here...

Posted Sep 29 2008, 02:46 PM by Jetwhine

Filed under: Airports, General, Blogging, sport aviation, Military, warbird restoration, Aviation History, Focke-Wulf 190, Fantasy of Flight, Women in Aviation, McFarlane Aviation, White 1 Foundation

O’Hare International Airport: Land of 10,000 Lakes

There used to be an area south of the control tower at O’Hare International Airport that acted as a catch basin of sorts when the rains came. They used to call it Lake O’Hare as a matter of fact. Weekend before last, the same weekend that...

Posted Sep 26 2008, 02:19 AM by Jetwhine

Filed under: The Buzz, Airports, pilots, air travel, ATC, Chicago O’Hare International Airport

Simple Airplanes + Modern Construction = Full-Scale Affordable Flight

Like most pilots, I dreamed of one day owning an airplane. With the cost of groceries and gas, one son in college and his brother starting next year, I’d put the dream to bed. Given all the costs, I couldn’t justify it to myself, because I...

Posted Sep 24 2008, 03:59 AM by Jetwhine

Filed under: Airports, General, Blogging, Flight Training, Aviation Marketing, Light sport aircraft, sport aviation, light-sport aircraft, Airdrome Aeroplanes, Flyboys, World War I airplanes, Sopwith Pup, Nieuport 17

Aviation Supply vs. Demand - The Business Aviation Option

I’m not an economist so perhaps I tend to oversimplify some things, but I find the concept of supply and demand a bit puzzling, especially when it comes to parts of our own industry that claim to focus on the need to constantly improve customer...

Posted Sep 22 2008, 04:51 PM by Jetwhine

Filed under: The Buzz, Business Aviation, air travel, United Airlines, airline, Cessna Aircraft, supply and demand, Cirrus Design Company, airline passenger loyalty, Bombardier, Gulfstream, Dassault, Embraer

Airline Flying Isn’t Like a Bus … It is a Bus

Well, Spirit Airlines has finally gone and done it. They’ve taken what used to be a really nice product - I flew them often between ORD and TPA until they dropped the service - and turned it into the closest thing to a city bus possible by adding...

Posted Sep 18 2008, 01:56 AM by Jetwhine

Filed under: The Buzz, pilots, air travel, ALPA, bus advertising, mile high club, Spirit Airlines, mile high media

Proposed Policy Doesn’t Solve Homebuilt Problem

If my homebuilding buddies are a typical sample of the amateur-built airplane community, there’s a lot of confusion about what led to the new policy the FAA has proposed. (See Homebuilt Aircraft: How Much is More than Half? ) My friends are solid...

Posted Sep 15 2008, 04:15 PM by Jetwhine

Filed under: Airports, FAA, General, Blogging, Aviation Marketing, Light sport aircraft, sport aviation, Amateur-built experimental aircraft, 51-percent rule, homebuilding, hired-gun airplane builders, FAA Policy, EAA

September 11th; The FAA Administrator Speaks

This is the seventh anniversary of the terror attacks in New York, Pennsylvania and Washington that included the hijacking of four airliners eventually used as suicide bombs, the first time we all learned that sitting back and hoping for the best as passengers...

Posted Sep 11 2008, 02:39 PM by Jetwhine

Filed under: The Buzz, FAA, pilots, air travel, NATCA, Bobby Sturgell, New York, Washington and Pennsylvania attacks, Jane Garvey, September 11th 2001

Pilots Maintain Grassroots Aviation Growth at Liberty Landing Airport

To most pilots who fly over it, Liberty Landing Airport (4MO4) isn’t anything special. On the sectional chart it’s just another private airport, an empty circle around an R that stands for restricted about 20 nm east, southeast of Kansas City...

Posted Sep 10 2008, 08:27 PM by Jetwhine

Filed under: Airports, General, Blogging, Aviation Marketing, Light sport aircraft, sport aviation, Sport Pilot, Kansas City Dawn Patrol, World War I airplanes, Liberty Landing Airport, Missouri River, Flood of 1993

Can You Say Aircraft Emergency?

I picked up this video of an F-16 making a dead-stick landing into Elizabeth City NC from my friend Patrick at, not surprisingly, Patrick’s Video site . I don’t know where he finds all this cool stuff. If you EVER wondered what an emergency...

Posted Sep 08 2008, 05:13 PM by Jetwhine

Filed under: The Buzz, Flight Training, pilot, aircraft emergency, F-16, Patrick’s Video site, Jetwhin.com

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