Business aviation flight activity in the United States tends to rise as fall takes hold during the month of October, according to ARGUS International Inc. At the NBAA Regional Forum in St. Louis, Travis Kuhn, associate product manager for ARGUS's TRAQpak, identified several reasons why flight activity recorded by the FAA spikes in October.

Believing aircraft instruments when they are at odds with our bodily sensations is difficult. After all, the brain is taking in thousands of inputs a second from the body’s sensors, but information from the aircraft instruments only enters the computations when we attend to them.

In the entry-level super-midsize category, is the Legacy 450 better value than the Citation Latitude? Digging deeper into design details, performance numbers and everyday capabilities can provide some answers.

Business & Commercial's senior editor Fred George takes a look at the static display at the NBAA Business Aviation Convention & Exhibition in Orlando.

Avinode’s Business Jet Charter Market Forecast is predicting the recovery of the U.S. market to continue in 2015, with a 3.5% increase in flights over 2014. All U.S. regions will see charter market growth next year, it predicts. The South will be strongest, with an increase in flight numbers of 4%, closely followed by the West, where volumes will grow by 3.6%. The Northeast will see a 3.3% increase in activity, while the Midwest will record growth of 2.5%.

Growth through acquisition is the current modus operandi among the larger FBO chains. Landmark Aviation’s recent FBO acquisitions also fill a void in its domestic and international network.

Wilson Air Center is doing a brisk business at its four U.S.-based FBOs, particularly at Chattanooga Metropolitan Airport (KCHA), where it is the sole FBO on site since TAC Air sold out in January 2014 to the Airport Authority for $12 million.

Back in the day when business aviation watchers asked “Why not use Beech King Airs on legs of less than three hours?” – they were talking about air taxis. That revolution never happened. But now, Kenny Dichter, who founded Marquis Jet and was the innovator of the 25‐hour fractional jet card, has done just that.