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Empty Charter Jets Going Everywhere

Realizing that I wouldn’t be able to attend the annual Air Charter Safety Foundation’s Safety Symposium (ACSF) in Washington last week got me thinking about how little publiscize charter jets at a...

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Cash for Towers: You Can help

Still Time to Save Some Towers — Straight off the massive printing presses at the General Aviation Airport Coalition in Washington comes late word that a deal is in the works to pull some cash from one...

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See and Avoid: Airplanes and Partisan Politics

Since the FAA issued the list of contract towers it will close to satisfy the self-inflicted sequester, I’ve been reading a lot of wailing and gnashing and incredulous screeds of how could they? Common...

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Dragonfly Vision & Hungry Midair Meetings

Like many aviators I appreciate anything that flies whether it’s a manmade machine or product of natural selection. Among insect aeronauts the dragonfly is my favorite. Let’s face it, who wouldn’t envy...

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Instructor Academy Gives Beech a Future

The recent announcement that the American Bonanza Society and its ABS Air Safety Foundation had established the ABS Flight Instructor Academy was not only good news, it was a surprise. For some reason...

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Sometimes Saying No is Just Plane Stupid

Looking back on the decade of my life I spent working at FAA I remember one thing for certain. When someone at the agency told me “No,” the reasons were seldom clear. “No,” might have meant something...

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Monday Morning Surprise at Flight Schools

Wandering around Addison Airport, a busy Dallas-area reliever, one Monday morning in late April, I dropped in, unannounced, at the airport’s four flight schools. Given the day and hour, I assumed they...

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DOT Secretary: Out with the Old and in with … the Old

After we recorded this week’s episode of the Airplane Geeks Show, I decided to turn over a new leaf and stop whining about people like the new DOT Secretary. To be honest, I had a little motivational...

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Aircraft Development Awaits Disruptive Tech

Catching up on the news after a two-week vacation that was, like my last two week respite in 1975, totally disconnected from the wider world, on May 5 The New York Times reported that there are new...

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Airplane Geeks Coming to Udvar-Hazy

Just about the time you thought you’d have a Saturday free to kick back and goof off comes word that The Airplane Geeks will again be a part of the Air & Space Museum’s Become a Pilot Day on June...

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Make & Read Pilot/IFR Training Comments

With just 130 or so comments received by the May 24 deadline, I guess the FAA felt it didn’t have enough flight training comments on its Draft Airman Certification Standards that its Airman Testing...

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With Air Show ATC Fees, the FAA is Following the Airlines’ Lead

Searching for a scintilla of logic behind the FAA’s ATC fees  for the air traffic control services it provides at fly-ins, I realized that the roughly $500,000 bill it sent EAA AirVenture Oshkosh was,...

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Fair Taxation Instead of Aviation User Fees

Inadequate revenue from aviation taxes on fuel and tickets, which fund the U.S. aviation infrastructure and the agency that regulates it, is how some in the FAA justify their desire for user fees to...

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Bloggers Play a Significant Role in Aviation Media

Every aviation blogger I’ve ever met is certain they possess a magic grasp on their own little corner of the industry, which is of course why we all do what we do. Some bloggers are just better writers...

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AirVenture: Airplane Geeks Invade Oshkosh

When people call me a “Geek” these days, I accept it as a term of endearment, especially with the advent of social media. In fact, that’s why our radio show’s called The Airplane Geeks. It’s actually...

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Two Professional Pilots … Missing

Two Turkish airline pilots have gone missing. The aircraft they flew to Beirut on August 9 is just fine, as is their cabin crew, but these two men simply vanished into thin air … and almost no one is...

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Today is Labor Day

Having been deeply involved with two major unions in my life … the Air Line Pilots Association (ALPA), the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Association (PATCO) and finally for a short while, the...

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Friends, Forecasts & the Future of Aviation

Most of my friends and acquaintances are, in some way or another, involved with aviation. Talking with them over the past months, the future of aviation seems to be the discourse destination of choice....

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Airlines, Lost Bags and Customer Service … Oh My!

“Airlines lose bags sometimes. Get over it, ” a guy told me. Yeah … right. That nice warm fuzzy reality check didn’t work for me a few months ago when Southwest Airlines lost my daughter’s bag between...

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Happy Birthday Jetwhine

Getting old isn’t really so bad, is it? Sure a few more lines and sags stare back at you every morning in the mirror, but the upside to aging is wisdom. Jetwhine’s 7th birthday is just around the...

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