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NOTE: THIS STORY WAS CORRECTED ON AUGUST 10TH AT 10:23 AM, THANKS TO THE HELP OF A SHARP-EYED READER. MAKING AN ATR-72 SPIN I wasn’t in Brazil on Friday afternoon, but I saw the post on Twi...

https://www.jetwhine.com/2024/08/making-the-brazil-atr-72-spin/

Continuing my curiosity quest inspired by Can GPS Spoofing Fool a Flight Navigator? , it seems that the US Air Force and Navy are the only reliable sources of air navigator training available to...

https://www.jetwhine.com/2024/07/who-trains-todays-navigators/

Beyond worrying about the heating bill and bundling up for the sub-zero trek to the mail box, reports about how much of America has been dealing with the polar waterfall has stimulated an unexpe...

https://www.jetwhine.com/2024/01/do-electric-aircraft-face-lapse-rate-challenges/

Is it coincidence that after decades of shrinking seat pitch (that ever-narrowing gap where your legs are supposed to go in coach), that the airlines have so thoroughly alienated people that the...

https://www.jetwhine.com/2023/05/airlines-make-price-pitch-for-more-legroom-but-will-it-last/

Aviation safety, when you get right down to it, is an endless round of risk assessment what ifs. There is much to learn when what ifs become real life right now. If you survive, that is. Anot...

https://www.jetwhine.com/2023/04/learning-from-the-decisions-of-others/

During the State of the Union Address, President Joe Biden said he wanted to crack down on airline “junk fees” that airlines added to their ticket prices. Given the motivation for the ever e...

https://www.jetwhine.com/2023/03/airline-fees-ticket-tax-avoidance/

If traveling from stockyard to stockyard on winged cattle cars is a fate just shy of death, drop what your are doing right now and click this link to the Federal Register: Request for Comments in...

https://www.jetwhine.com/2022/10/act-now-send-your-airline-seat-size-comments-to-the-faa/

When I returned home from the EAA Aviation Museum to start writing this I discovered that today, October 13, 2022, is Ernest K. Gann’s 112th birthday. This is significant because he owned the...

https://www.jetwhine.com/2022/10/celebrating-ernie-ganns-typewriter-on-his-birthday/

It’s been slightly more than a year since I’ve flown on an airliner. I certainly didn’t miss airline travel in the middle of the pandemic, but this summer’s cancellation and delay insanit...

https://www.jetwhine.com/2022/09/the-ultimate-airline-mileage-run/

Everyone knows airline flying stopped being fun 20 or 30 years ago once a deregulated industry realized just how cheaply they could package and sell their product. Along with searching for a lo...

https://www.jetwhine.com/2022/07/a-practical-solution-to-airline-service-hell/

During a bimonthly recon of a used bookstore hoping that some unexpected title would catch my eye, Indestructible: One Man’s Mission That Changed the Course of World War II arrested my scan wi...

https://www.jetwhine.com/2022/06/indestructible-the-rest-of-the-pappy-gunn-story/

Boeing 737 MAX 7 For the thousands of us who call the aviation industry home, 2020 turned out to be a year we’ll be glad to see the end of although the change of calendars won’t wipe away ma...

https://www.jetwhine.com/2020/11/a-glimmer-of-light-ahead-for-the-aviation-industry/

Aviators live and die by their acronyms, so reading one unfamiliar motivates a frenzy of catch-up research. A short news item about changes ICAO recently made to special procedures for in-flight...

https://www.jetwhine.com/2020/11/slop-mitigates-collision-risk-posed-by-gps-navigation-paradox/

Nothing in the world seems to make sense anymore. On Monday (September 14), GAMA published its aircraft shipping and billings report for the second quarter, and it’s not good. Every category...

https://www.jetwhine.com/2020/09/where-does-general-aviation-go-from-here/

Rarely are the dots so closely connected to an epiphany that turns a train of thought on the future of automated aviation in the opposite direction. SkyDrive The first dot was an August 29 New Y...

https://www.jetwhine.com/2020/09/paper-airplanes-and-automated-aviation/

Like one of Chicago’s other major aerospace companies, Boeing, the town’s hometown airline has had more than its own share of problems, in addition to those gnawing customer service problems ...

https://www.jetwhine.com/2020/05/a-few-thoughts-on-chicagos-hometown-airline/

Concentrating on a short-term goal is natural when facing unpleasant restrictions, but these inconveniences pale in comparison to the long-term consequences. What unites both timeframes is the in...

https://www.jetwhine.com/2020/04/aviations-covid-consequences/

Bob Crandall retired in 1998 as chairman, president, and CEO of AMR, parent organization to American Airlines and while many people today might not remember his name, they’ll pretty quickly rec...

https://www.jetwhine.com/2020/03/bob-crandall-upfront-on-industry-bailouts/

When things go chronically wrong in aviation, a safety stand down is an efficient and effective treatment because you stop all operations and dissect what you’ve been doing and how you’ve bee...

https://www.jetwhine.com/2020/03/pandemic-opportunity-for-safety-stand-down/

Unless you’ve been a disconnected intraterrestial for the past week or so, you’ve probably seen the memes noting the triple one-week whammy of the change to daylight savings time (for those o...

https://www.jetwhine.com/2020/03/zulu-time-full-moon-madness-and-pilot-superstition/