Fractional ownership company NetJets has received more than 1,000 resumes from qualified candidates for open pilot positions, the company says. It has also received about 200 resumes from flight attendant candidates for open positions. NetJets recently announced plans to add up to 87 pilot positions and up to 50 new flight attendant positions throughout 2015. The first group of new pilots is expected to start on-site training in the first quarter, the company said.
Fractional ownership company NetJets has received more than 1,000 resumes from qualified candidates for open pilot positions, the company says. It has also received about 200 resumes from flight attendant candidates for open positions. NetJets recently announced plans to add up to 87 pilot positions and up to 50 new flight attendant positions throughout 2015. The first group of new pilots is expected to start on-site training in the first quarter, the company said.
U.K. air accident investigators have called on the U.S. FAA to examine possible issues with the angle-of-attack vane units and stall warning system on the Cessna Citation CJ2+ business aircraft after a stall incident in U.K. airspace in late 2013.
Cabin completion and MRO specialist AMAC Aerospace celebrated its seventh year in Basel, Switzerland, with the impending completion of a Middle East head-of-state BBJ747-8i and the construction of a new hangar.
Longtime aviation journalist Molly McMillin will join Aviation Week on Jan. 5 as the managing editor for The Weekly of Business Aviation and Aviation Week Intelligence Network business aviation coverage.
The new kid on the business aviation block was unveiled Dec. 17 with the rollout of Dassault Aviation’s new Falcon 8X ultra long-range business jet. It will replace the Falcon 7X as the French OEM’s flagship business jet. First flight is expected in the first quarter of 2015. The big tri-jet was announced last May at the European Business Aviation Convention & Exhibition and promises to push the performance boundaries.
Civil aviation leaders will work to build a consensus and develop recommendations for improving the safety of business and commercial aircraft operating near conflict zones at the Internaitonal Civil Aviation Organization’s (ICAO) High-Level Safety Conference. The meeting will take place in Montreal Feb. 2-5 at ICAO headquarters.
The three major airports in the Washington, D.C., area are using parallel, satellite-based “highways in the sky,” marking a significant expansion of the FAA’s NextGen concept. Each of the three airports – Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall in Maryland, Dulles International in northern Virginia and Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport in northern Virginia – has its own dedicated NextGen system.
Daher-Socata delivered the milestone 700th aircraft of its TBM single-engine turboprop series on Dec. 15. The aircraft, a TBM 900 model, was delivered to a private customer in Illinois through a sale organized by TBM distributor Muncie Aviation of Muncie, Indiana. The TBM 900 is the flagship of Daher’s aerospace activities and demonstrates the full acceptance of the single-engine turboprop concept, said Stephane Mayer, president and CEO of Daher-Socata. “We are now setting our sights on the next milestones,” she added.
A business jet and helicopter training Center of Excellence will be set up in the Middle East by FlightSafety International and helicopter operator Abu Dhabi Aviation. “Selecting FlightSafety to provide industry-leading flight simulators and proven instructional technologies for the new Learning Center will establish Abu Dhabi as a major aviation hub and center of excellence for training in the Middle East,” says Nadir Al Hammadi, chairman of Abu Dhabi Aviation.
A $1.1 trillion government spending bill signed by President Barack Obama contains good news for the business aviation industry. Called a “cromnibus” bill, referring to the combination of a continuing resolution and an omnibus spending bill covering dozens of federal agencies, the legislation provides $15.72 billion for the FAA through fiscal year 2015, ending Sept. 30, 2015. The Obama administration request was $15.4 billion.
Textron Inc., the parent of Wichita-based Beechcraft, Cessna and Hawker, continues to fine-tune its new business segment, Textron Aviation, under which the three companies now fall.
Two major milestones coincided within days of each other at Turbomeca, the French manufacturer of helicopter engines: the 40th anniversary of the first flight of its Arriel engine, and the entry into service of its latest engine, the Arrius 2B2 Plus. The Arriel family, ranging from 650 to 950 shp, powers more than 40 helicopter models, including the Airbus Helicopter Dauphin and Ecureuil. The 11,500 Arriel engines produced have logged more than 42 million flight hours.
Proposed tax rule changes recently issued by the Texas state comptroller go beyond the plain meaning of the tax code in Texas, and seek to impose significant new burdens on aircraft owners and operators, the National Business Aviation Association (NBAA) says. The rules would “significantly change the standards for creating aircraft ownership and operating structures [and] under the proposal, a new rule might determine when operators could qualify for the ‘sale or resale’ exemption through aircraft leasing,” according to the association.
A consortium of 15 companies called Advanced Approaches for all Airports (A3), led by NetJets Europe, has been formed under the Single European Sky Air Traffic Management Research (SESAR) program. The program is intended to demonstrate new approach and landing solutions that will increase the capacity of the European airport network while reducing emissions and noise.
