Leonard Greene, Ph.D., founder and current president of Safe Flight Instrument, is this year's recipient of the annual NBAA Award for Meritorious Service to Aviation. Dr. Greene is the inventor of the stall warning indicator, the product that launched Safe Flight Instrument in 1946. He also helped to found the Corporate Angel Network, and piloted its first flight. Dr. Greene's award will be presented on November 21 during the NBAA Annual Meeting and Convention in Orlando.
Honeywell's Business and Commuter Aviation Systems in Phoenix and Trimble Navigation of Austin now will market regional airliner versions of their HT9000 and HT9100 GPS-based navigation management systems. Under the joint venture, Trimble will produce the hardware, and Honeywell will market it. Both systems are approved under TSO C129-A1 for non-precision approaches and for en route and terminal navigation. Honeywell and Trimble introduced the products in 1995 for the major carriers.
New format, standardized VFR+GPS charts now are available from Jeppesen&Company GmbH for Austria, Belgium, Germany, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and Switzerland. Changes were made to simplify navigation and flight planning. Among the revisions: Airspace for which clearances are required is depicted, and restricted areas are marked in red. Also, minimum safety flight altitudes of 1,000 or 2,000 feet above the highest obstruction within each half-degree sector are clearly shown. Color-coding for topographical levels has been added.
A Falcon 900 was the first recipient of a CAL Corporation dual satellite telephone system. JetCorp of Chesterfield, Missouri performed the installation.
Photograph: The first Global Express is scheduled to roll out later this month, followed by its first flight in September. GLOBAL EXPRESS ROLLOUT NEARS Excitement and anxiety are building within the Global Express development team at Bombardier-excitement over the anticipated rollout on August 26 and anxiety that anything could happen to cause the company to reschedule this milestone.
Keith Butler-Wheelhouse joins this avionics manufacturer this month as its executive director. In November, he is slated to be appointed as its chief executive as well.Linda Martin
The latest Canadair Regional Jet (CRJ) sale is four of the 50-passenger airplanes to Argentina's Pampas Air. Ever heard of it? The order has been pending for some time, but it seems the principals did not come up with a name for the new airline until recently.
One of business aviation's ``Holy Grails'' has been to find a reliable way to offset the cost of ownership of an aircraft when it isn't being used for its primary mission of transporting corporate employees. Some operators have found that chartering their aircraft can be an effective way to reduce the costs of ownership, but finding passengers is often a hit-or-miss affair. And what do you do when you need another aircraft on short notice or when you're deadheading?
Lachlan Beatson, a veteran AlliedSignal executive who recently was hired to oversee manufacturing at Learjet, was named the company's president following the abrupt departure of Jim Robinson. Robinson, also an AlliedSignal alumnus, left to head up Fairchild's newly acquired Dornier operations in Germany after only five months as Learjet president. In January, he replaced Brian Barents, who also left the company suddenly.
Delta Connection Atlantic Southeast Airlines has a public relations problem. It seems that civic leaders in Columbus, Georgia were publicly concerned about delays and cancellations around the time of the Atlanta-based Summer Olympics.
(Fillup Flyer Fuel Finder-June 1996) This table shows the results of a June 1996 independent survey of U.S. FBOs. The survey, by Fillup Flyer Fuel Finder in Cincinnati, reflects fuel prices reported by 1,863 U.S. FBOs. All prices are full retail-before discounts, if any apply-and include taxes and other fees. Contact Fillup Flyer for individualized customer fuel surveys at (800) 333-7900.
DOT Inspector General Mary Schiavo, who said she would not travel on ValuJet Airlines in particular, and no ``commuter'' airlines in general, has resigned. Schiavo gave no reason for her decision, but said she was not forced out. Industry insiders think otherwise. They say her views were contrary to those of the Clinton ddministration, the DOT and the FAA, which have been coming under increased scrutiny for their management of aviation safety.
A second runway and a business aviation center are on tap for Chep Lap Kok, Hong Kong's new international airport. The airport is scheduled to open in April 1998 with one runway. The second runway is scheduled to be completed in October 1998. Business aviation flights soon could double beyond the 500 movements currently at Hong Kong's Kai Tak Airport, estimated Henry Townsend, chief executive of the newly established Hong Kong Airport Authority.
The latest edition of the NBAA's biennial report on state taxes on fuel, use taxes, aircraft registration fees, personal property taxes and the types of operations that may be exempted from taxation is now available to non-member companies. The report shows that 16 states impose registration fees; six states do not impose any sales and use tax on aviation; and two states-Texas and Connecticut-do not have a tax on fuel. To obtain a copy of the 1996-1997 State Aviation Tax Report, contact the NBAA at (202) 783-9266.
FAA has banned the use of child booster seats and vest- and harness-type child restraint systems on FAR Part 135 and Part 121 operations. The rule does not affect use of other FAA-approved child restraint systems, such as certain rear-facing safety seats (for children under 20 pounds) or forward-facing seats for 20- to 40-pound children. The FAA says children over 40 pounds should use the airliner seat's standard lap belt.
Illustration: Figure: Range/Payload Profile EMBRAER EMB-145 These graphs present preliminary range, fuel and payload information that is designed to show the capabilities of the EMB-145. Do not use these data for flight planning. Notably, the June 1996 data indicate that aircraft performance should be considerably better than Embraer's original estimates that were published in the Technical Description.
Business aircraft operators, and the organizations that support them, often tout general aviation's ability to transport business travelers to 5,500 U.S. airports-10 times the number of air terminals served by commercial airlines. Add in all the international airports accessible to business aircraft and that number approaches 9,500 landing facilities.
The fear of flying isn't limited to novice travelers who have never, or only rarely, flown. In fact, experienced travelers are just as likely to be afraid-or to develop a fear of flying-as are people who never venture aloft. A Boeing study conducted in the 1980s estimated that about 15 percent of adult Americans are afraid to fly. For many, that fear, at least in the beginning, is not so acute that it prevents them from boarding an airplane. What it does do, however, is make the flying experience unpleasant.
The FAA has proposed dropping a stipulation that all new transponders operated under FAR Part 135 be Mode S types. Agency officials admit that few benefits originally envisioned under Mode S have materialized. If the proposal is adopted, only Part 121 aircraft required to be fitted with TCAS II would still use Mode S. The comment period on the proposal had not yet closed as B/CA went to press, but little opposition was expected.
``As a rule, General, we don't hire ex-military pilots. They fly airplanes; we fly people.'' So spake Tils Peabody to Dick Lassiter at NBAA a few eons back. Endicott Tilson Peabody founded GM's flight department and honchoed it from 1946 until his retirement, following which he was felled by a heart attack at NBAA Anaheim. In his final hour, Tils and I walked to the convention-he going to Flight Safety, where he dropped to the floor. Tils was 76, weighed 18 stone and could put away juniper berry squeezings (mit olive) like they was soda pop.
