Succession planning in any flight department, like developing other essential disciplines, is a lengthy, comprehensive process. The sooner you start planning and grooming potential successors, the more likely the high standards you’ve set for your organization will endure after your departure.
Airport ramps can be hazardous to a pilot’s health. On an icy ramp one winter day, a good friend slipped while manipulating the door on his business jet, causing him to hit the pavement, wrists first.
Embraer Legacy 650 operators concede that there are more luxurious, larger cabin, higher flying, faster cruising and longer range large-cabin business aircraft than the aircraft they fly. But nothing comes close in terms of “value for money.”
By William Garvey, Jessica A. Salerno, Molly McMillin
The Flight Safety Foundation is expanding its Basic Aviation Risk Standard, or BARS, suite of documents aimed at managing aviation risk for contracted aircraft operations.
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.
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.
