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AIN Blog: Torqued: Brain Drain in Maintenance Sector Needs Another Look
January 3, 2013 - 1:55am
John Goglia
Aircraft maintenance

Imagine seeing this headline: “Major Airline Uses Student Pilots on Passenger Flights.” There would be universal outrage and condemnation if an airline tried to put students in the cockpit on passenger-carrying flights–even if “just” to handle the radios or practice touching some of the controls in cruise flight.
AIN Blog: Singing the Legalese Blues
January 2, 2013 - 12:28pm
Jeff Burger

When John Adams proclaimed, “I believe in a government of laws, not of men,” he couldn’t have imagined just how many laws—or how much legal mumbo-jumbo—his descendants would have to endure. In his day, after all, people didn’t do things like put an empty sheet at the end of the Constitution labeled, “This page intentionally left blank.”          
AIN Blog: Behind the Scenes at Business Jet Traveler: December 2012/January 2013
December 10, 2012 - 9:58am
Jennifer Leach English

I am so relieved that the U.S. presidential election is finally over. The past year—and especially recent months—have been marked by an undercurrent of anxiety, with otherwise-loving families having cocktail-soaked dinner wars and old friends severing Facebook ties over national policy issues. Perhaps now we can all stop bickering and get down to business. 
AIN Blog: A City Seemingly in Perpetual Crisis
December 9, 2012 - 7:41pm
Bill Carey
One of the gargoyles on the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C., seems to be a city that is in perpetual crisis. Now the U.S. government is in conniptions over the “fiscal cliff.” Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke coined that metaphor to describe the tax increases and automatic spending cuts that kick in on January 2 unless Democrats and Republicans somehow tame the $16 trillion national debt.
AIN Blog: Decriminalization of Aviation Accidents Has a Ways To Go
December 7, 2012 - 5:46pm
Paul Lowe

When it comes to decriminalization of aviation accidents, the world seems to take one step forward and two back.
AIN Blog: An Open Letter to the Editors
December 4, 2012 - 10:25am
Jeff Burger
S. Claus, a Business Jet Traveler reader, wants the magazine's help to purchase a bizliner.

This month, I’m turning my blog space over to the reader who submitted the following letter to our magazine.—Jeff Burger, editor of AIN sister publication Business Jet Traveler

An Open Letter to the Editors of Business Jet Traveler:
AIN Blog: Regulations Have Consequences
December 3, 2012 - 7:34pm
Matt Thurber
Citation X

A reader recently took me to task for writing that the FAA is reinterpreting Part 135 regulations, in a story about the FAA’s belief that contract charter instructors and check airmen apparently are not complying with the rules.
AIN Blog: Torqued: Robust Regulatory Oversight Remains Backbone of Aviation Safety
December 1, 2012 - 2:05am
John Goglia

All these nightly news reports of the oversight failures in the pharmaceutical industry that allowed a so-called compounding pharmacy located just 20 miles down the road from where I live in Massachusetts to wreak havoc with tens of thousands of lives (including those who developed fungal meningitis from contaminated injections and those who are just frantically worrying about getting it) got me thinking about government oversight of the avia
AIN Blog: Virtually Impressive
November 21, 2012 - 4:46pm
Curt Epstein
Using the system's headset takes one into an virtual aircraft cabin.

If a picture is worth a thousand words, what is the value of being able to walk through a finished aircraft long before the first seat is installed or the first carpet?
AIN Blog: Technology at the Speed of Light, Or Pretty Darned Close
November 19, 2012 - 6:00am
Kirby J. Harrison
Lumin cabin management system

At this year’s NBAA convention in Orlando, new cabin technology was holding court, eliciting a chuckle from a day-one visitor who remarked, somewhat tongue-in-cheek, “This stuff will probably be outdated by the time the show ends.”

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