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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
