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

Edited by Paul RichfieldFred George
BFGoodrich became the second firm to announce a low-cost Terrain Awareness and Warning System (TAWS) box when it introduced its Landmark TAWS8000 at the NBAA Convention in October. The TAWS8000's terrain avoidance capability complements the firm's Skywatch and TCAS791 traffic alerting systems and its Stormscope hazardous weather detection systems, thus providing protection from the three major causes of fatal accidents.

By Fred George
Imagine flying with an instrument panel display system that produces a virtual VFR window to the outside world, one that provides a clear, daylight view of terrain and aircraft attitude in three-dimensional perspective.
Air Transport

Edited By Paul RichfieldBy Fred George
If you have an aircraft equipped with an older-generation GPS receiver, you may be in for an unwelcome surprise, come the third week of this month. This is when Week Number Roll Over (WNRO) potentially will become a problem for some GPS receivers.