Airline Fuel Costs Mount
Think of the military aviation, jets, helicopters, UAVs, AWACs, bombers and even flying gas stations in the sky for aerial re-fueling. Opening up the floodgate of supply, lowers the prices and puts the cartel in check. If not certain businesses become un-viable when fuel prices go too high. These reserves have been used when OPEC plays hardball creating fuel prices above our ability to operate our industries and businesses and keep America employed and the wheels of commerce turning. The modern Aircraft carriers use nuclear power, like the submarines, but the rest of the world's greatest arsenal uses fuel of various types.
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Common Cockpit Concepts and Convenient Configurations
Taken to extreme this would mean your automobile or a commercial truck would be similar to a war fighting tank, jet airliner, private boat, fighter jet, helicopter and school bus. When you go to driver training or into a simulator for your check ride, you simply find the best and most comfortable position and set it. If you gain or lose weight you can then adjust manually the Common Cockpit you are in and it will imprint on your SmartCard the new position. In the CCI, I propose that you simply standardize all common cockpits with the same sensors and seat movement positions and add this to your SmartCard, RFID imbedded chip or wrist watch. Since humans come in different shapes and sizes and if every cockpit is the same, then why not have the seat controls also the same.
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Laser Beam Guidance for Oshkosh Air Show
The FAA assures the AOPA, EAA and other pilot's association not to worry it will not be using any high powered lasers like was used against the Delta Heavy on its way into Salt Lake City or the many others we heard about in the news. The Federal Aviation Administration is devising a method of alerting pilots who enter a restricted airspace to leave immediately. Because general aviation aircraft often fly at relatively low altitudes, today's strongest lasers may pose a threat to the safety of the flight in all flight regimes. Airplane Owners and Pilots Association states their position. The Military would also like to keep general aviation pilots away, so they do not have to shoot them down.
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The History of the Aircraft Wash Guys, Part Two
To compound things they did not think a guy who left school could handle such an undertaking. He felt college was superficial and that he had more experience and a better sense of reality than the textbooks of yester year being taught by Professors who had never actually run a business of any kind. Lance was ready to go for his dream and needed to get some venture capital about 1-2 million. Thus built in clientele in nearly every industry and after flying around all over California he noticed things on the ground that needed his services. Winslow still uses aerial pictures and mapping to target accounts to this day.
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Young Men Trying to Imitate the 9-11 Scenario, Part II
Also private enterprise gave us more innovations, people like Burt Rutan came onto the scene with the Vari Eze, Long Eze, Vari Viggen. We marched, went to a shortened version of boot camp. I still think that this program teaches more than any guidance counselor at any school. All I had to do was study ground school and take aviation tests, which I loved anyway. Some of us were in sports, some in other extracurricular activities.
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Airline Security; Stewardesses The Last Line Of Defense!
Dan currently acts as the International Director of the World Federation of Bodyguards and has a private business as a Security & Protection Consultant. However, the current efforts are focused primarily, on simply throwing in more security personnel and making them federal employees, which in reality has done little to actually increase security. This is a fact that is evident by the many cases of persons carrying weapons onboard aircrafts anyway. This fact has repeatedly been proven by security inspections, where security agents, have boarded aircrafts with weapons and explosives etc. To those I will say yes, I fully agree, to the necessity of pre-screening of passengers and baggage and an increase in Airport security procedures is necessary.
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Entering Business Aviation, Part II: Pay Rates for Flight Attendants
New York and Los Angeles are the two most trafficked areas for private flying. Indeed, the NBAA supports this data with a recent survey showing that the average corporate flight attendant is paid just over 53K per year. Much of what I've heard as the quoted salary is in the low to mid-50s range. The higher salary can be expected when you have a VP title and be in charge of several flight attendants. Generally, never expect anyone to reveal their salary to you.
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Entering Business Aviation, Part IV: Crafting a Resume
As a private flight attendant, your résumé should fall somewhere in between. Include training locations, dates, and a brief synopsis of the training. If you completed FACTS, Alteon, FlightSafety, etc. For example, emergency egress training, emergency medical procedures, food safety and culinary arts, wine service, etc. Do not write several paragraphs but do include some information about what was accomplished during your training.
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The History of the Aircraft Wash Guys, Part Three
Arthur was one of the original Tidy Car Franchisees, his dad once owned a small airline in Los Angeles, which flew jets and later had one of the top performing Mail Boxes Etc. They have washed jets in Little Rock Arkansas, Scottsdale AZ Airpark, Colorado Springs CO, Bozeman MT, Columbus OH, Van Nuys CA, Palm Springs CA and many other airports across the country. Arthur's brother operated the Tidy Car Franchise after that and did lots of aircraft washing for jet customers in Florida. Recently Burt Rutan made such a comment to Congress during his testimony on the birth of the private space industry. It was noticed that FBOs, Flying Schools and especially the fractional jet market was really taking off.
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Airlines, Price Wars, and Branding
An Industry that takes wartime aviation advances and a few years after to allow for the new technology to reach the private sector with new and efficient aerodynamics and electronic positioning and fuel allocation devices. Start the price war, but not until you are 100% at the top of your game. If you are at the top you can win a price war. What these authors and Professors did not mention is that the best way to win a price war is simple. Why did they already not offer these lower prices since they could have.
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