Fred George

Chief Aircraft Evaluation Editor

San Diego, CA

Summary

Fred is a senior editor and chief pilot with Business & Commercial Aviation and Aviation Week's chief aircraft evaluation pilot. He has flown left seat in virtually every turbine-powered business jet produced in the past three decades.

He has flown more than 195 makes, models and variants, ranging from the Piper J-3 Cub through the latest Boeing and Airbus large twins, logging more than 7,000 hours of flight time. He has earned an Airline Transport Pilot certificate and six jet aircraft type ratings, and he remains an active pilot. Fred also specializes in avionics, aircraft systems and pilot technique reports.

Fred was the first aviation journalist to fly the Boeing 787, Airbus A350 and Gulfstream G650, among other new turbofan aircraft. He’s also flown the Airbus A400M, Howard 500, Airship 600, Dassault Rafale, Grumman HU-16 Albatross and Lockheed Constellation.

Prior to joining Aviation Week, he was an FAA designated pilot examiner [CE-500], instrument flight instructor and jet charter pilot and former U.S. Naval Aviator who made three cruises to the western Pacific while flying the McDonnell-Douglas F-4J Phantom II.

Fred has won numerous aviation journalism awards, including NBAA’s David W. Ewald Platinum Wing Lifetime Achievement Award.

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Articles

Fred George
Bankrupt Eclipse Aviation furloughed 800 of its 850 employees Wednesday as a result of a longer-than-expected sale of its assets to EclipseJet Aviation International, a subsidiary of Luxembourg-based ETIRC Aviation S.a.r.l. EclipseJet Aviation was using up to $20 million in bridge financing from ETIRC and Al Mann, the first and second-largest shareholders, to tide itself over until completion of the asset sale at the end of January. But now, the money has run out.

Benet Wilson, Fred George
The federal government has indicted six people associated with the 2005 accident in which a chartered Bombardier Challenger business jet failed to take off from Teterboro Airport in New Jersey and instead ran off the runway, through a fence, across a highway and slammed into a building, seriously injuring four people.

Fred George
RNP 0.3: GPS — either TSO C-129 IFR GPS or TSO C-145/-146 WAAS-enabled GPS IRS — Laser IRS or solid-state AHRS FMS with approved barometric VNAV capability Digital Air Data System Appropriate EFIS displays, including moving map Appropriate, current and validated navigation database RNP ≤0.3 No single point of failure can cause the loss of RNP capability required for approach. Dual GPS Single IRS Dual FMS with approved VNAV capability