Sabreliner Corp., St. Louis, has announced that Ronnie Herman has been promoted to senior vice president, operations, responsible for the company's Southeast Missouri operations. Gene Harbula has been promoted to senior vice presi- dent, business development. Gina Bey was promoted to senior manager, eastern region sales and service, and Beth Thomas was promoted to senior manager, international and western region sales and service.
Tdata has released Version 1.44 of its maintenance tracking software. The improved version offers network file sharing, the ability to select a central file saving location for all users, file open as read-only or exclusive, upgraded reports to include on-condition items and the ability to track an unlimited number of aircraft. Price: $749 and up Tdata (800) 783-2827 (United States) 1 (614) 885-1169 (International) www.tdata.com
In order to help catalog and record repairs and alterations, the FAA has instituted an electronic system for collecting 337's. As more approved repairs and alterations are captured in the central database, this should help local inspectors provide a rapid processing of field approvals. For more information see FAA Notice 8300.121, which is available on the FAA Web site at: http://www.faa.gov/library/manuals/ examiners_inspectors/8300/notices/
The Isle of Man Aircraft Register is a step closer to reality as ICAO has issued an amendment to the Aircraft Nationality and Registration Marks. "The Isle of Man registration 'M' will be followed by four characters," says Brian E. Johnson, Isle of Man 's director of Civil Aviation. Legislation for the new register, which targets business aircraft, is being submitted to the Tynwald (Isle of Man Parliament) this month and is expected to come into being in April or May.
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During the first quarter, Executive Beechcraft, the Midwestern aircraft service company, expects to begin installations of the Garmin G1000 integrated avionics suite in Beech King Air C90s. The Raytheon authorized service center, which plans to perform the retrofits at its Kansas City Downtown (MKC) and Spirit of St. Louis (SUS) airport locations, is anticipating receipt of an STC for the modification shortly.
WHILE THE REST OF US were enjoying the long Thanksgiving weekend with family and friends, Joe Lepore and Jan Paladino were stranded some 4,500 miles from their families and homes on Long Island. Instead of eating turkey and watching football on TV, the two ExcelAire pilots were anxiously awaiting another court hearing, hoping for an end to their two-month ordeal in Brazil.
Sharp Details, Dulles, Va., announced that Allen Cable will be the new site manager of the company's White Plains, N.Y. (HPN) and Oxford-Waterbury, Conn. (OXC) operations.
Baseops/World Fuel Service, Houston, named Lisa Peacock as the newest member of the sales team at World Fuel Service. She will be based in the Calgary, Alberta, office.
In general, the concentration of GA traffic does substantially increase the probability of an inflight collision. With only two aircraft in the same piece of airspace there is only one possible collision pair. However, with five aircraft there are 10 possible pairs and with 10 aircraft there are 45. What is the practical meaning of this?
A Beech F33 was substantially damaged during a forced landing following a loss of engine power during cruise when it was a short distance from William P. Hobby Airport, Texas. With the airplane still slipped up on it's nose due to the landing the FAA inspector who responded to the accident observed that the left fuel tank was empty and the right tank had "about an inch" of fuel in its tank. However, the pilot reported to the inspector that he visually checked the fuel before departing Houston and that both tanks were at the three-quarter level.
In the highly competitive business jet charter market, operators are using a variety of methods to attract customers, from block charter plans and membership cards to direct marketing campaigns conducted on a local basis.
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The Republican-led 109th Congress is history; the Democratic-led 110th Congress will be tasked with completing appropriations legislation for the fiscal year that began Oct. 1, 2006, for many government agencies, including the DOT. The tax extension provisions include a measure to provide some relief to air ambulances and crop dusters against IRS anti-fuel-fraud requirements that tax jet fuel at the highway diesel fuel rate and permit refunds of the difference only to registered vendors.
JetBird, Dublin, Ireland, announced that Patrick Raftery was appointed to operations director. He will be involved in developing the firm's European operating model in preparation for launch in early 2009.
Rep. John Mica (R-Fla.) has been named ranking Republican on the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee for the next session of Congress. Rep. James Oberstar (D-Minn.) will chair the committee. Mica currently chairs the House Aviation Subcommittee. Oberstar and Mica are both considered to be well-informed and open- minded on aviation issues.
PASSUR's radar receiver comprises a single antenna at a single site. Another dependent surveillance system using many antennas spread over an area beneath the airspace to be controlled is multilateration. The deployment of these systems has already taken place in Europe and Asia and takes advantage of the fact that all airline and most general aviation aircraft are transponder equipped. The antennas are simple, easier to site than radar's, non-rotating and inexpensive.
For scheduling and dispatch professionals with decision-making responsibilities for inflight telephone communications, the latter half of 2006 was abuzz with news that bears on current equipment purchase choices and planning for the future. Now that MagnaStar has gotten a one-year reprieve from Verizon (to December 2007), the window has opened wider for providers offering the replacement solution.
EADS Socata has appointed IndUS Aviation as its authorized sales representative for the TBM 700/850 in India. IndUS Aviation Inc. is an American/Indian aircraft manufacturing company with headquarters both in Dallas and Bangalore. In 1994, Dr. Ram Pattisapu, an Indian who is president of the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association of India and migrated to Texas, founded IndUS Aviation, which produces the two-seater Thorp T-211 trainer and sells various aircraft in India.
Boeing and PrivatAir announced the latter is getting a Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner to be configured as a business aircraft. PrivatAir, headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, becomes the first business aviation operator to purchase the 787. The order is valued at $153 million in 2006 dollars, and Boeing's Orders and Deliveries Web site lists it as a 787 BBJ. The 787 complements PrivatAir's existing Boeing fleet, which includes a newly acquired 767, a 757, three Boeing Business Jets (BBJs) and one BBJ2.
In December, the NTSB called directly on airlines to follow the runway landing distance calculations the FAA recommended in a Safety Alert for Operators (SAFO) in August 2006. The FAA originally released a policy statement that would have required commercial and fractional aircraft operators to incorporate a 15-percent safety margin in landing distance calculations based on runway conditions at time of arrival.
Millennia released an alerting feature that works through your dispatch software's e-mailer, Outlook or Lotus Notes calendar anytime a triggering event occurs, which is basically whenever a new trip is scheduled or a change is made to an existing trip. Dispatchers and schedulers have control over how the triggering events are managed and who receives the alerts. And if ops professionals want their print output to look good, Millennia's new Report Design Studio will turn you into a graphic designer who can crank out the boss's itinerary with flair.
Upon receiving an FAA production certificate for its Citation Mustang assembly line in Independence, Kan., Cessna technically delivered its first Mustang to a customer, Mustang Management Group (MMG) of Fresno, Calif., then immediately leased the aircraft back for 10 months for use as a demonstrator. MMG plans to use the Mustang in its Scott Aviation subsidiary for flight training when it actually takes delivery. The certificate authorizes Cessna to build, flight test and grant airworthiness certificates for its newest and smallest Citation.
The second Bell/Agusta BA609 tiltrotor prototype recently made its first flight as the first prototype passed the 100-flight-test-hour milestone at Bell's flight test center in Arlington, Texas. The second, s.n. 60002, flew at Agusta/Westland's facility at the Italian Air Force airfield at Cameri, Italy. Pietro Venanzi was the pilot and Herb Moran copilot for the 52-minute flight. The third prototype is already at the Cameri facility and s.n. 60004 is on the assembly line in Fort Worth.
A new Eurocontrol survey shows that air traffic safety has continued to improve in Europe since the tragic accidents at Italy's Linate-Milan Airport when an SAS airliner and Citation collided, killing 118 people, in 2001 and over Uberlingen, Germany, where a TU-154 and DHL 757 collided in 2002; ATC lapses were factors in both accidents.
