Jetwhine

Sort by: Most Recent | Most Viewed | Most Commented

Flying Club May Resuscitate Flying Career

CLEAR! TV doctors bark this sharp-elbowed warning before they shock a restive heart back to a regular rhythm. It is also the warning pilots issue to bystanders before they energize an airplane’s air processer. Seemingly disassociated warnings, several...

Published Thu, Feb 9 2012 2:00 AM by Jetwhine

Filed under: Airports, General, Blogging, Flight Training, Aviation Marketing, Pilot Population, Wittman Regional Airport, Affordable Flying, Pilot Dropouts, club, club’s, doable, Flying Club, monthly, resuscitate, winnebago
Jetwhine Tries to Out-Cranky the Cranky Flier

I’m made quite a career out of whining about the aviation industry, but even I need someone’s shoulder to moan on every so often. As I sit here in a hotel room in Bordeaux trying to get back to the states from France using an American/Iberia...

Published Sun, Feb 5 2012 7:26 PM by Jetwhine

Filed under: The Buzz, Airlines, Blogging, Aviation Marketing, American Airlines, The Cranky Flier, Air France, airline code sharing, American Airlines Advantage, code, cranky, flier, goodie, iberia, Iberia Airlines, sanity, ticket, whining
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
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
Will Army Drones Spark Interservice Rivalry?

Wandering through a Google collection of aviation news, Combat Aviation Brigade Welcomes a New Unit, New Aircraft , grabbed my attention. I’m a dedicated rotorhead, helicopters comprise the majority of the US Army’s fleet, and I was hoping to learn about...

Published Thu, Jan 12 2012 2:00 AM by Jetwhine

Filed under: Blogging, Military, US Air Force, Predator, UAV, army, brigade, combat, Defense Budget, Drone Pilots, drones, gray, interservice, US Army, welcomes
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
Our Monkey Speaks About Your Jetwhine Subscription

In case today’s title has you wondering, don’t worry. We haven’t decided to farm our content production out to a cheap, new labor source. In 5 and a half years of writing Jetwhine, the world has continued to evolve around us although...

Published Mon, Jan 9 2012 8:00 PM by Jetwhine

Filed under: The Buzz, database, chimps, mail, post, production, remained, subscription, verify
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
Looking Bach at the Joy of Simple Flight

An old-school reader, annually I must winnow my collected ink-on-paper titles to make shelf room for Christmas newcomers. As they have for decades, the works of Richard Bach survive every purge. Like many others, I met Richard through the pages of Jonathan...

Published Tue, Dec 20 2011 4:00 AM by Jetwhine

Filed under: Airports, General, Flight Training, Aviation Marketing, Light sport aircraft, Pilot Population, Richard Bach, richard, bach, jonathan, Jonathan Livingston Seagull, joy, livingston, newcomers—seeks, seagull, titles
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
Commercial Curiosity Reveals High-Flying Volunteer Space Program

Curiosity often costs me a lot of sleep. Tonight I saw that TV commercial about the guys who captured some cool, outer space video using a weather balloon. So Google and I went looking for them. I found JP Aerospace . I don’t know if they did the commercial...

Published Tue, Dec 6 2011 4:00 AM by Jetwhine

Filed under: The Buzz, General, Blogging, Aviation Marketing, aerospace, Aerospace Future, airship, ato—airship, JP Aerospace, jp’s, jpa, orbit—program, pongsat, suborbital, Suborbital Airships, Weather Balloons
AA Pilots: Bankruptcy is YOUR Fault

From Paris – There’s no small amount of irony that AMR, parent of American Airlines and American Eagle, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection – a move certain to save the carrier millions over the next few years – only a day before 2,000,000...

Published Wed, Nov 30 2011 9:18 PM by Jetwhine

Filed under: The Buzz, Airlines, Airports, Blogging, Aviation Marketing, American Airlines, IAM, Boeing, labor, labor, AA, aa’s, airline bankruptcy, Allied Pilots Association, bankruptcy, Gerald arpey, greedy, labor management relations, management, management’s, nerve, Tom Horton
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

1 2 3 4 5 Next > ... Last »

Syndication

Recent Posts

Tags

Archives

Flying Club May Resuscitate Flying Career

Jetwhine Tries to Out-Cranky the Cranky Flier

Signs of New Aviation Era are Unmistakable

Will Aviation Biofuel be New Farm Subsidy?

Aviation: It’s ALWAYS About The Passengers

Will Army Drones Spark Interservice Rivalry?

A Monkey in Our Subscription Works

Our Monkey Speaks About Your Jetwhine Subscription

VOR Days Numbered in FAA Proposal

Looking Bach at the Joy of Simple Flight

Pitch & Power and the Margin of Error

Commercial Curiosity Reveals High-Flying Volunteer Space Program

AA Pilots: Bankruptcy is YOUR Fault

Unmanned & Automated Aircraft: Are We Getting Too Smart for Our Own Good?

Boeing Flight Test Engineers Get Creative