Posted by on 03 Sep 2010 | Tagged as: Charters, Large Jet Charters, Medium Jet Charters, Small Jet Charters, Uncategorized
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.
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Posted by on 02 Sep 2010 | Tagged as: Charters, Large Jet Charters, Medium Jet Charters, Small Jet Charters, Uncategorized
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 what happened to the Kings, but where GA fits in the whole scheme of security and crime.Plus: Last week, we asked AVweb readers about a mid-air collision between a radio-controlled model airplane and a biplane and whether than indicated a need for new regulations. Click through to see the breakdown of answers.
Posted by on 01 Sep 2010 | Tagged as: Charters, Large Jet Charters, Medium Jet Charters, Small Jet Charters, Uncategorized
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 thing and we wonder how many agencies would bother with the apology, much less the extra mile to avoid these things in the first place. Read more and join the conversation.