29 March 2011

Foxaero is providing flight review in Germany at Essen Mheulheim, including IFR. Essen Mheulheim (EDLE) is very near Duesseldorf Airport (EDLD). After FAA PPL has obtained in US better to have training German Airspace familiarization.

14 July 2010 China Making Progress Toward GA-Friendly Skies

By Mary Grady, Contributing editor

Changes are expected soon that would make China much more open to general aviation, according to China Daily. "There will be progress in opening up the low-altitude airspace in the later half of this year, and many local governments have expressed interest in investment," said Wang Xia, vice president of the General Aviation School at Civil Aviation University of China. The skies have gradually become more open to private, low-altitude aircraft, but only if operators comply with a complex and time-consuming approval process that involves several different government agencies. To become a private pilot, applicants must pass a series of tests and physical exams, and spend about $20,000. There are only about 1,000 private pilots in China, according to China Daily. Meanwhile, officials are investigating corruption in China's aviation industry, the Canadian Press reports.

Several officials have been fired, and investigations continue into bribery and influence peddling involving individuals in both industry and government, according to the CP. "In China, aviation is a semi-militarized industry, not a completely commercial one," said Zhang Qihuai, a law professor at the Logistics College of the Chinese Air Force. "It attracts huge amounts of money and power ... This has been a terrible problem for a while." One aviation official, who had not been targeted in the probe, threw himself in front of a train last week.

8/04/2011

We took off Orlando International Airport (KMCO) at 05:55 early morning destination to West Memphis (KAWM), famous Elvis Presley who was born there. Citation Encore is so far best corporate Jet compare with Citation Bravo. Fast Aircraft, cursing 411 Knots and fly 41000 feet. It took only 1hour and 47 minutes for 699SM. Compare with Citation Jet that most of switches are the same location on cockpit panel. I love this Encore, it cost 10 million.

29/03/2011

Japan Earthquake and Tunami Disaster

Disaster prevention Medical Air Support Fund

While many pilots are helping with the disaster relief efforts in Japan by donating funds, some have connected with organizations and started using their aircraft to help deliver supplies.

Please contact : http://www.flyingarrows.aero

13/04/2010

Florida's Sun 'n Fun Fly-in offers a welcome chance to promote general aviation, according to columnist Jamie Beckett. The fly-in brings valuable business to Lakeland, Fla., and pilots can use the opportunity to change people's minds about general aviation. "We can change that apathy to a warm and welcoming embrace of general aviation as a viable part of the community," writes Beckett. General Aviation News (4/12)

29 March 2011

Cirrus Aircraft company for sale to China!

1 January 2011

Gulfstream G200 sets records

A Gulfstream G200 business jet set two city-pair speed records this year, connecting Savannah, Ga., to Keflavik, Iceland, and Keflavik to Vnukovo, Russia. The large-cabin, mid-range G200 flew 2,915 nautical miles from Savannah/Hilton Head International Airport to Keflavik International Airport with an average speed of Mach 0.75. It also flew 1,827 nautical miles from Keflavik to Vnukovo, near Moscow at Mach 0.80.

25 November 2010

Flexjet 25 Jet Card offers Napa holiday bonus
The Flexjet 25 Jet Card offers the luxury gift of private flight, and includes a Napa Valley bonus if purchased before Jan. 15. The promotion includes a dinner for two prepared by "Iron Chef" star Masaharu Morimoto, as well as a cooking class and wine tasting at his Morimoto Napa restaurant. The jet card retails for $132,000 and includes up to 35 hours of flight time on private jets.

20 November 2010

General aviation anticipates Chinese market for aircraft
General aviation aircraft manufacturers are eying the Chinese market after the country opened up its airspace below 12,000 feet. According to the Chinese media, the country has more than 1,000 general aviation aircraft, but only 200 helicopters. However, China could manufacture its own helicopters by 2020, sources say.

14 October 2010

USA  aircraft specialist is looking to cash in on China's increasing demand for pilots and its resolve to open up the sky to general aviation.

Headquartered in Providence, Rhode Island, Textron Inc, has built a factory exclusively to make aircraft for pilot training in Shenyang of Liaoning province. Textron owns brands such as Bell Helicopter and Cessna aircraft.

"For both Cessna and Bell Helicopter, clearly the biggest market opportunity is in China," said Scott C. Donnelly, president and chief executive officer of Textron.

A report by Boeing, released on Sept 16, predicted that China will need 70,600 pilots and 96,400 aircrew members in the next 20 years.

However, Textron's decision was initiated years before Boeing's report. In 2007, Textron built an important partnership with Shenyang Aircraft Corporation (SAC) located in Shenyang, Liaoning province in Northeast China, to produce the Cessna 162 Skycatcher light sport aircraft exclusively for pilot training.

Although the factory only commenced production this year, Textron expects the production volume will reach 300 aircraft a year. More than 1,000 orders have arrived so far, of which 70 percent are from Canada and the United States.

"This is the first time we have a partner in manufacturing aircraft outside the US," said Donnelly, adding Textron looked all over the world for the right partner.

The decision was made not just to save costs, so as to make the aircraft affordable to trainee pilots, but also to gain a foothold in China's huge aviation market, he said.

Donnelly sees the wide gap in the number of Cessna aircraft flying in China and the US as a big reason for optimism.

There are a total of 208 Cessna airplanes (24 Citations, 10 Caravans and 174 Pistons) in China, while in the US the number is 83,314 (3,675 Citations, 600 Caravans and 79,039 Pistons), more than 400 times that of China, according to figures from Textron.

"The gap results from the (restricted) air space," Donnelly explained.

More business people in China have started to buy business jets and a growing number of people want to learn to fly.

But the restrictions on both business jets and pilot training are still stiff, making the procedure extremely complicated.

"China has more businesses than ever before, so once the air space is allowed to utilize general aviation, you will see many businesses benefiting from it," Donnelly said.

Donnelly added that the aviation sector has a heavy reliance on general aviation, and he found what the Chinese government has been saying and doing is very encouraging.

"It has been clearly moving in the direction of seeing growth in general aviation," he said.

A survey by the Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) said 20,535 persons had received aircraft pilot licenses from the CAAC by the end of last November.

14/07/2010

Korea Aerospace Industries will fly its single-engine KC-100 piston-engine aircraft soon in preparation for entering the market in 2013. The four-passenger aircraft, claimed to fly at 240KTAS, went undiscovered until Hartzell announced it was buillding a propeller for it. The aircraft uses a three-blade Hartzell composite propeller on a Continental TSIOF-550 engine with full autority digital engine control (FADEC), rated at 315 hosepower at 2500 rpm.

from AOPA news

14/04/2010

Following two years of "deterioration," business travel via private jet is on the rise. According to a UBS research report, the number of flights on business jets jumped 5% in December -- the first monthly jump since the middle of 2007. The New York Times