Dassault Aviation’s Falcon 5X, the first in a line of next-generation business aircraft from the French firm, rolled out in front of 500 company guests, employees and partners at its Bordeaux Merignac plant on June 2nd.
Many flight departments also coordinate with other aviation organizations, comparing standards and practices. Participating teams often are led by people who want to move up the chain of command, perhaps becoming flight department managers themselves.
A common trait among maintenance managers is a kind of career blindness. Most enter aviation because of the airplanes, or their talent for fixing things.
It’s beginning to heat up now. I’m told this is the prelude to the scorching that’s coming in August, a condition I readily accept as just penance for fleeing south before the winter of all winters turned my New England hometown into an ice locker buried in towering snowdrifts.
Professional pilots can be perfectionists regarding preflight planning, cockpit resource management and adherence to SOPs. So, why is it that a large percentage of them aren’t equally fastidious about what’s in the fuel tanks of their aircraft?
Cleveland, Ohio-based Nextant Aerospace has opened a resale division with its first aircraft, a 2012 Nextant 400XT. Plus, Bombardier CEO Alain Bellemare discusses the Learjet 85 and his priority for business aircraft. And the EPA’s proposed finding that aircraft emissions contribute to climate change and endanger public health launches a process to set a regulatory standard — being developed by ICAO — for aircraft carbon dioxide emissions.
At the 2015 Aerospace Media Awards dinner held June 14 in Paris, B&CA Senior Editor Fred George was honored with the Best Business Aviation Award for his February cover story: "Bombardier Learjet 85 – The Window of Opportunity Slams Shut."
You knew it was coming — oh, yes, you did — the impending deadline to purchase and install Automatic Dependent Surveillance–Broadcast avionics in your aircraft to retain access to U.S. controlled airspace after Jan. 1, 2020. The same cutoff applies to ADS-C, or “Contract,” equipage, necessary for operation in oceanic airspace and requiring flight crew training and, unlike ADS-B, an FAA Letter of Authorization, as well. Five years may seem like a lot of time …
As pilots we learn to deal with crosswind landings almost from Day One of our training. Chances are this was in a primary flight trainer that weighed less than your car and was accomplished with what some call the “wing low” method, something more properly called a sideslip. This could very well be a valid technique for the airplane you are flying now but probably isn’t.
Teterboro Airport in Teterboro, N.J., was the most popular business aviation airport in May 2015, according to an analysis of acukwik.com traffic. Paris Le Bourget Airport and Doha-Hamad International Airport in Doha, Qatar, were the only airports outside North America to crack the top 10.
During May 2015, Teterboro Airport in Teterboro, N.J., was the most popular business aviation airport among U.S., Canada and Mexico airports, according to an analysis of acukwik.com traffic from that period.
Dassault Aviation expects the Falcon 5X to make its first flight this summer. Plus, analysts say the company is revamping the super midsize Cessna Citation Longitude in advance of its expected debut later this year. NetJets' CEO chairman and CEO resigned, and two executives who recently left NetJets are returning to the company. Business Jet Center's new Love Field hangar can accommodate Gulfstream 650s or Global Expresses.
