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- What’s WAAS !!!!
I’m going to try to explain WAAS without any ”Geek Speak”. This is a very simplified explanation for non-aviation professionals. WAAS :Wide Area Augmentation System is a means of enhancing conventional GPS accuracy to enable precision like approaches where no conventional ground based precession approach facilities exist. There are about 1500 of these approach procedures published [...]
- “Flying Home” Palm Beach Illustrated
Integral Aviation Solutions was featured in Palm Beach Illustrated this month. Please click on each picture or download PDF.
- Posting of FAA Safety Alert
Explicit Runway Crossing Procedure Change · Beginning June 30, 2010, controllers will be required to issue explicit instructions to cross or hold short of each runway that intersects a taxi route. · “Taxi to” will no longer be used when issuing taxi instructions to an assigned take-off runway. · Instructions to cross a runway will [...]
- Corporate Flight Attendant Recruitment / Training & Cabin Provisioning Services by Susan C. Friedenberg
In the fast paced and ever changing world of business aviation, whether your aircraft is on a Part 91 certificate and operated by a corporate entity, a private individual, or on a Part 135 charter certificate, you must have the most professional and qualified in-flight crew. In a Part 135 environment the manner in which [...]
- MEL’s Minimum Equipment List : Use or Abuse
Minimum Equipment Lists: For those of you not familiar with them, is a document submitted by the operator and approved the Air Agency (FAA in the US). All airlines and most corporate aircraft have them. The purpose intially, was to fly an aircraft with an inoperative component back to base where repairs can be made. [...]
- Aviation: Legal v Safe
Those of us on the line side of flying or maintenance always here the following words from crew scheduling, maintenance control and our chief pilots. “It’s Legal” my response has always been but is it “safe”. Let’s take a look a the formal definitions of the terms courtesy of Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary: Legal: of or [...]
- Capt. Klugman on crew rest
There are many schools of thought on crew rest. Here is my thoughts on the local news. I feel qualified to comment on the subject having flown as many as 6 round trip Atlantic crossings in a two man aircraft in one month. I have flown for a major US airline for over 23 years [...]
- FBO/CHARTER/PILOT/S&D’S/CHARTER BROKERS Food Safety Awareness & Catering Training
The importance of food safety involves safeguarding food from anything that could harm the health of consumers. In this case, it applies to the crews and the passengers that come thru your FBO. For Part 135 operations that order catering for their customers, it is crucial that the catering you order accommodates the galley size [...]
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