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Business Aviation Now
Can FAA Resist the Political Long Knives?
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by Jim Swickard at
7/3/2008 11:08 AM CDT
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In my opinion, political pressure is ratcheting up on the FAA to be more adversarial with those it regulates. Airlines and Part 135 operators are already feeling the impact. The agency's treatment of charter operators is particularly harsh. Are the rest of us next? ... Read More » |
GAMA Applauds FAA Bilateral Safety Accord with EASA
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by Jim Swickard at
7/1/2008 10:38 AM CDT
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The FAA signed a comprehensive bilateral safety agreement with the European Aviation Safety Agency during the TransAtlantic Aviation Issues Conference yesterday, Monday June 30 in Brussels, Belgium. The accord encompasses many of the safety agreements that the U.S. has held with individual European states. The Bilateral ... Read More » |
Cirrus Prepares 'the-jet' for First Flight
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by Graham Warwick at
6/29/2008 1:41 PM CDT
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Single-engine personal jet rolls out, a year after the mockup was unveiled to customers. ... Read More » |
FAAs Sabatini Expects Fatigue Symposium Proceedings in August
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by Jim Swickard at
6/25/2008 2:01 PM CDT
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FAA's first Fatigue Management Symposium is likely to yield lots of valuable information. ... Read More » |
Happy Fifth Birthday, Gulfstream Luton
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by George Larson at
6/24/2008 2:54 PM CDT
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(BCA Photos follow the text) Gulfstream's Luton, England facility located in Hangar 63 at London Luton Airport held a birthday party for itself on June 21. The occasion marked the fifth year of operations as a wholly owned subsidiary of Gulfstream, which acquired it in April 2003. During that time, the size of ... Read More » |
Eclipse Throttle Problem Prompts AD, Misconceptions
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by Jim Swickard at
6/18/2008 2:56 PM CDT
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This is a chronology of what happened between June 5 and June 13 with links to soujrce documents that should clear up some misconceptions, particularly that the Eclipse 500 fleet was grounded. I ran this in the June 18, Business Aviation Bulletin ... Read More » |
Friction Between Air Travel Haves and Have Nots
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by Fred George at
6/17/2008 4:58 PM CDT
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The Chasm Between Premium Level Air Travelers on Business Jets and Working Class Road Warriors on Sky Buses Never Has Been Greater ... Read More » |
DayJet: Very Little Impact From Throttle AD, Restructuring Ahead
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by George Larson at
6/17/2008 3:56 PM CDT
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DayJet CEO Ed Iacobucci says he was concerned when he first learned of a required emergency inspection on the company’s Eclipse 500 throttle quadrants. He says they knew an incident had occurred through a bulletin Eclipse issued. “We were on standby to see what decision the FAA would make, and we got the ... Read More » |
DayJet, FAA Agree on Five-Year Plan for Florida NextGen
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by George Larson at
6/11/2008 11:56 AM CDT
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On Tuesday, DayJet and the FAA inked a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) to accelerate the implementation of NextGen technologies in Florida in three phases from 2008 to 2013. The collaboration includes participation by Florida’s Department of Transportation Aviation Office and Embry-Riddle’s Daytona campus. The ... Read More » |
In the Rear-View Mirror--EBACE '08
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by George Larson at
5/28/2008 12:54 PM CDT
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So there's a credit crunch that's squeezing aviation companies like DayJet, which couldn't complete a round of financing and had to drop its growth plan for a while? You'd never know it at this year's EBACE, where the big news headlines were all about large sums of money changing hands. I'm talking BILLIONs of $$$. XOJet, ... Read More » |
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