http://smalljetcharter.com Save time and money with a small jet charter. Sun, 05 Sep 2010 07:18:06 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The UPS Boeing 747-400 that crashed in Dubai Friday was only three years old and had less than 10,000 hours on it according to a news release issued by the company on Saturday. UPS identified the pilots killed in the crash as Capt. Doug Lampe, 48, of Louisville, KY and ... http://smalljetcharter.com/cvr-recovered-in-ups-crash/ A flyer left by the DHS in an FBO at Hickory Regional Airport in North Carolina makes bullet points of suspicious behavior associated with illegal activities but ensnares some behavior pilots might consider routine. The flyer was left at the FBO about two weeks ago by federal agents and lists ... http://smalljetcharter.com/warning-suspicious-activity-may-include-yours/ Two years ago, a Spanair MD-82 crashed on takeoff at Madrid, killing 154 people and marking Spain's worst air tragedy in 25 years; now, malicious code infecting a maintenance department computer has been implicated in the crash. To be clear, the code was not flown on the aircraft's own systems ... http://smalljetcharter.com/computer-virus-linked-loosely-to-airline-crash/ The Pulse of Aviation will not publish Monday, Sept. 6, as the General Aviation News offices will be closed for Labor Day. Look for The Pulse to return to your e-mail boxes Tuesday, Sept. 7. ===> Posted on September 2, 2010 by Janice Wood. No comments. © GAN 2010 Related posts:Happy ... http://smalljetcharter.com/labor-day-hiatus-for-the-pulse/ By now you've likely heard about John and Martha King being held at gunpoint by police in Santa Barbara last weekend. We've already heard from more than 100 readers about how they feel about the whole thing. Now, we want to know how you feel — not about ... http://smalljetcharter.com/question-of-the-week-is-it-safe-to-panic-yet/ The Santa Barbara police chief had the decency and class to apologize to John and Martha King after holding them at gunpoint over the weekend following an erroneous stolen aircraft report. Unfortunately, as Paul Bertorelli reports on the AVweb Insider blog, pilots are uniquely vulnerable to this sort of ... http://smalljetcharter.com/avweb-insider-blog-up-against-the-fence-martha/ Gulfstream's new G650 recently reached Mach 0.995 on a test flight, which the company says establishes the business jet as the world's fastest civil aircraft. That title that has long been held by Cessna's Citation X, which flies at Mach 0.92. Gulfstream said the G650 achieved the maximum speed during ... http://smalljetcharter.com/gulfstream-claims-fastest-civil-aircraft-title-for-g650/ Heard on the air near KTRK (runways 19 and 28 in use today):Cessna:"Truckee Unicom, Twin Cessna XXX eight miles southwest. Runway advisory, please."Unicom:"Winds are 190 at 20, gusting 30. All runways are open."Cessna (slightly clueless sound in his voice) :"Do you have a suggested runway?"Unicom:"Most aircraft are using ... http://smalljetcharter.com/short-final-6/ Pilot’s License? Check. FAA Medical? Check. Credit cards? Check. $100 for a hamburger? Check. All these items are easily carried in the AOPA Money Clip Wallet from Sporty’s, the only one made just for pilots. Read more... ===> Posted on August 30, 2010 by Janice Wood. No comments. © GAN 2010 Related ... http://smalljetcharter.com/keep-your-100-hamburger-money-close/ Mexicana, Mexico's largest airline, stopped flying at noon on Saturday telling passengers still holding tickets it was sorry for the inconvenience. The airline entered bankruptcy protection earlier and was trying to reorganize when parent company Grupo Mexicana pulled the pin, citing, among other things, the inability to reach deals with ... http://smalljetcharter.com/mexicana-stops-flying/