Jessica is Executive Editor of Business & Commercial Aviation magazine. She started as Editor of ShowNews Online, Aviation Week's on-site trade show daily published at the Paris Air Show, NBAA Annual Convention, Singapore Air Show and at other significant aerospace gatherings.
Jessica has worked in television production and management consulting. While not yet a licensed pilot, Ms. Salerno has received flight instruction and has soloed.
Flying Musicians Association, Inc., has been formed by two pilot/musicians, John Zapp and Aileen Hummel, with the goal of encouraging, promoting, educating and supporting music and flying. The group feels that by flying around the country and visiting music programs they can expose young people to the thrill and fascination of aviation. The first Fly-In Musicfest is scheduled for Nov. 6-8 at the Fort Worth Springs Airport (KFWS), Fort Worth, Texas. Flying Musicians P.O. Box 2201 Grapevine, TX (817) 501-3641
Metis Systems, a division of DHK Holdings, LLC, has just released version 1.2 of the eAPIS Tool. This program safely and securely saves all of your aircraft, pilot and passenger data on your computer and makes submitting a Customs eAPIS manifiest a snap, according to the company. It validates your data against the Business Rules published by Customs, then prepares a fullly compliant and sufficient “.xml” file that can be uploaded to the eAPIS Web site. The tool keeps information in several tables that interact with the part of the program that produces the file.