EAA Program Will Help Ensure Young Eagles Guidelines Are Maintained Even as it celebrates 30 years of success with its Young Eagles initiative for providing youth an introduction to general aviation, EAA reports a growth in discrepancies within the volunteer program and its guidelines, including some “inappropriate Young Eagles practices.”[…] Read this article
FAA Cites Runway Configuration Challenges At KVGT Safety Meeting The FAA hosted a safety meeting at North Las Vegas Airport (KVGT) in Nevada on Monday (Sept. 19). The meeting was prompted by last July’s midair collision that claimed four lives. In that accident, a Piper Malibu arriving from the[…] Read this article
NBAA-BACE To Put Spotlight On Business Aviation Owner-Operators In recent years, the National Business Aviation Association (NBAA) has redoubled efforts to support aircraft owner/operators who use their aircraft, at least in part, for business travel. Next month’s NBAA Business Aviation Convention & Exhibition (NBAA-BACE) in Orlando, Florida, will[…] Read this article
This Job Recruiter Wants You Aviation Search Group Managing Director Jay Gallagher is a former crew chief on a B1-B, so he knows something about leadership and attention to detail. That’s the professional attitude he brings to the job of putting qualified pilots in the[…] Read this article
Textron's 'Help Wanted' Shingle Has Some Tempting Small Print Textron Aviation is addressing the labor shortage with a three-prong effort to bring in career talent. Job prospects range from entry-level manufacturing positions to high-level engineering slots. Incentives include, according to Textron, starting wages, sign-on bonuses and special tax credits[…] Read this article
IATA To Cut Newark Airport Out Of The New York City Herd There is longstanding friction over whether New Jersey’s Newark Liberty International Airport (EWR) “belongs” to New York or the Garden State. It is controlled by the cross-state Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, along with Teterboro Airport—also in[…] Read this article
Short Final: Invasion As a CFI, I recently had the opportunity to attend a Mooney Pilot Proficiency Program at KSMX, Santa Maria airport, up the coast from Los Angeles. We were told that we could do approaches—but no landings or touch and goes—at[…] Read this article
