Succession planning in any flight department, like developing other essential disciplines, is a lengthy, comprehensive process. The sooner you start planning and grooming potential successors, the more likely the high standards you’ve set for your organization will endure after your departure.
Airport ramps can be hazardous to a pilot’s health. On an icy ramp one winter day, a good friend slipped while manipulating the door on his business jet, causing him to hit the pavement, wrists first.
Embraer Legacy 650 operators concede that there are more luxurious, larger cabin, higher flying, faster cruising and longer range large-cabin business aircraft than the aircraft they fly. But nothing comes close in terms of “value for money.”
A common trait among maintenance managers is a kind of career blindness. Most enter aviation because of the airplanes, or their talent for fixing things.
By William Garvey, Jessica A. Salerno, Molly McMillin
Gulfstream Aerospace celebrated its third win of the Robert J. Collier Trophy by setting a city-pair record with its G650ER between Paris and Washington, D.C., where the trophy was awarded June 3.
Many flight departments also coordinate with other aviation organizations, comparing standards and practices. Participating teams often are led by people who want to move up the chain of command, perhaps becoming flight department managers themselves.
By William Garvey, Jessica A. Salerno, Molly McMillin
Sonex Aircraft CEO Jeremy Monnett and Sonex assembly mechanic Mike Clark were killed June 2 in an accident involving a Sonex Sport Acro at Wittman Regional Airport in Oshkosh, Wisconsin.
Dassault Aviation’s Falcon 5X, the first in a line of next-generation business aircraft from the French firm, rolled out in front of 500 company guests, employees and partners at its Bordeaux Merignac plant on June 2nd.
