Careers

It’s not something I usually admit in polite company, but I think I’m fairly prone to addiction. I’ve never been a raging alcoholic or desperate junkie, mind you, but when I take an interest in something, I tend to go all in. Shortly after I started motorcycling, I rode my old BMW on a 15,000-mile […]

It was a spectacularly clear spring day in Lakeland, Florida. My wife, Cathy, and I were sauntering from exhibit to exhibit with four friends at Sun ’n Fun. The airshow had just begun. A fleet of Pitts Specials screamed by. We were just talking to Darryl Taylor of Van Bortel Aircraft in Texas about the […]

One of the biggest aviation universities in the country, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, has teamed up with a major regional airline, American Eagle Airlines, on a program that provides a pathway for students to transition from the school into first officer positions at the airline. The American Eagle Airlines Pilot Pipeline Program will offer select Embry-Riddle […]

Members of tomorrow’s aviation workforce are getting a leg up on their future careers, thanks to Embry-Riddle Worldwide’s Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) program, which provides university-level aviation education to select groups of high school students. The program, which is currently active at six Arizona schools and one Nevada school, offers participants the ability […]

The National Business Aviation Association will for the first time host Build A Plane’s Teachers’ Day at the upcoming annual Business Aviation Convention and Exhibition, set to take place in Las Vegas October 22 through 24. The Teachers’ Day will be incorporated into the Careers in Business Aviation Day, sponsored by Honeywell, on October 24. […]

A British Airways poll conducted last month shows that at least British kids still aspire to fly. The independent research involved 650 U.K. youngsters from ages six to 12. Most boys chose careers as football (soccer) players, followed by pilots and then “superheroes.” (Nice to know pilots came out ahead of caped crusaders.) Girls favored […]

“We are thrilled to be expanding our dedicated pilot team during this exciting growth period,” said Flexjet vice president of operations Jason Weiss, “and anticipate hiring in the double digits in 2013 and beyond.” With fractional and jet card sales almost doubling from January 2012 through January 2013, the Bombardier subsidiary is bullish on its […]

Should you pack a tie for Oshkosh? Redbird Flight Simulations has announced it will host pilot interviews for SkyWest Airlines, as well as conduct evaluations of candidates’ IFR skills in a King Air 350i simulator. The process will all take place at the Redbird tent (No. 208) on the EAA AirVenture grounds. Redbird and SkyWest […]

| The forest below was thick and rolling, with leafy hilltops set ablaze by the setting sun and brooding valleys already lost to deepening shadows. A few lights twinkled to life through the canopy, but there was little other evidence of the hamlets and roads that my atlas showed sprinkled through these foothills of eastern […]

The University of North Dakota took a survey of what courses its students wanted and found heightened interest in business aviation. About half of the students surveyed said they had interest in pursuing careers in that area of aviation. So the university administration is now offering a concentration in that specific field, with 16 credit […]