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If your company is planning to fly the boss or a party of favorites to the Feb. 1, 2004, Super Bowl game in Houston, be aware that not only will you have to deal with a Special Traffic Management Program (STMP), but you’ll also be dealing with a security-based Temporary Flight Restriction. The STMP itself […]

Now that Chicago’s lakefront Meigs Field is closed, probably forever, are the industry’s warnings of an adverse local impact on air traffic congestion coming true? Although not publicly connected to Meigs’ closure, a study conducted by former FAA official Joseph Del Balzo says plans to expand Chicago O’Hare International Airport would create additional airspace congestion […]

What do air-show legend R.A. “Bob” Hoover and former NASA astronaut Eugene Cernan have in common? If you answered that they are co-founders of a new corporate-jet buying service known as Jet Fleet International (JFI), you win a free subscription to AVweb. The JFI mission is to bring the same high-volume purchasing power enjoyed by […]

Should the federal government retire its color-coded terrorist threat warning system? That’s the theme of an op-ed piece, “Damage From the Alert System Is Alarming,” written by Edward N. Luttwak at the Washington-based Center for Strategic and International Studies that appeared in Monday’s Los Angeles Times. Labeling the current five-color warning system as “useless,” Luttwak […]

Could you some day fly your steam-gage King Air down an ILS to a 100-foot decision height without the electronics costing more than the plane? Could be, if recent trends are an indication. The trends in question are the enhanced vision systems first available on Gulfstream’s high-end jets (see article above) and now being certified […]

WSI Corporation this week announced it had received FAA certification for its Internet-based weather and NOTAM delivery system, WSI Pilotbrief Online. The service’s certification is under the FAAs Qualified Internet Communications Provider (QICP) program, which means that WSI Pilotbrief Online meets the agency’s standards in areas like reliability, security and accessibility. The WSI service joins […]

Jeppesen said earlier this month that it is refusing, so far, to sign an agreement with the Australian government to pay what in the U.S. would be a user fee for the privilege of using public data to compile aeronautical charts and information. According to Jeppesen, it and other commercial organizations are being asked by […]

It won’t be registered as N1, but Bombardier Aerospace will soon deliver a brand-new Challenger 604 bizjet to none other than AVweb’s Favorite Aviation Agency. The Jan. 19, 2004, announcement by the Canada-based manufacturer says that the aircraft — for which the FAA also placed two options — will be used for runway and airway […]

Meanwhile, Cessna CEO Jack Pelton’s task of helping the company rebound from the economy’s downturn got a bit tougher after industry leader NetJets told the manufacturer that it was canceling its order for 50 Citation CJ3 aircraft. According to Cessna, the canceled order applied to jets slated for delivery in the late 2005-2008 time frame. […]

Cessna’s transition to a world without 25-year veteran Russ Meyer continued last week with Jack Pelton being named president and chief executive officer of the airframe manufacturer. Pelton, himself a veteran of both McDonnell-Douglas and then Boeing, replaces Charlie Johnson, who announced his retirement last month after months on medical leave from the Wichita-based company, […]