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Contents - December, 2009

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FEATURES

  1. POSITION & HOLD
    Bizjets—a bottom-half crunch
    by Richard Aboulafia
    How and why one part of the business jet market took the biggest hit this year.
  1. FLIGHT DEPT OF THE YEAR 2009
    Air Mobility Command 89th Airlift Wing
    by Phil Rose
    US Air Force’s SAM FOX uses mixed fleet of 18 Boeing and Gulfstream aircraft to transport military and civilian leaders.
  1. ENROUTE
    Technology Timeline 2010–39
    by Marvin Cetron
    Industry leaders look at where future technology may be taking us in the next 30 years.
  1. FBO TRENDS
    Operators grapple with challenge
    by Mike Potts
    With bizjet flying down, fuel sales suffer and oil companies vie for branding.
  1. INTERNATIONAL OPS
    India opens for business travel
    by Grant McLaren
    Trade is up, but parking, bureaucracy and operating flexibility remain problematic.
  1. FLIGHTDECK TECHNOLOGY
    Honeywell’s latest SVS/FMS philosophy
    by Glenn Connor
    Matching systems and software with NextGen requirements.
  1. HEADSET PREFERENCE SURVEY 2009
    Users rate their headset units
    by Pro Pilot staff
    Electronic ANR: 1 Bose, 2 Lightspeed, 3 Telex, 4 David Clark, 5 Sennheiser
    Nonelectronic PNR: 1 David Clark, 2 Telex
  1. WX BRIEF
    Winter weather woes
    by Karsten Shein
    Cold season flying includes preparing for both severe and subtle adverse conditions.
  1. PILOT TECHNIQUE
    Avoiding overrun accidents on contaminated runways
    by Nihad Daidzic
    Landing on slippery runways requires precise touchdown and judicious use of brakes or thrust reverse.
  1. OUTER MARKER INBOUND
    Shifting to space-based augmentation systems
    by David Bjellos
    SBAS approaches will eventually mean replacement of terrestrial ILS equipment.

Volume 43. No 12

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Leaders depend on USAF 89th Airlift Wing for global air transportation. (L–R) C32 Crew Chief SSgt Siegfried Herrmann, 89 OG Cdr Col Monty Perry, 99 AS Cdr Lt Col Preston Williamson, 89 OSS Cdr Lt Col Al Smith, 1 AS Dir Ops Lt Col Timrek Heisler and DynCorp Intl A/C Branch Mgr Lewis Dickerson with Boeing C32A and Gulfstream C37A. Cover photo by Pro Pilot Art Dir Jack Sykes.

 

 

DEPARTMENTS

  1. SQUAWK IDENT
    Readers express their views on flying in Canada and sharing airspace with UAVs.
  1. ACCIDENT RECAP
    CBP Citation strikes distance-remaining sign on takeoff roll. Final report on MSP Dauphin crash.
  1. AV HAZARD
    More on radio use. Airline mergers confuse unwary pilots.
  1. TERMINAL CHECKLIST
    Answers on p 38.
  1. SID & STAR
    Speculating on parallel universes.
    Artwork by Wayne Shipp.
  1. PIREPS
    PC12 NG cockpit to feature cursor control device. EU ETS takes effect next year.
  1. FBO NEWS
    Announcements from Air Routing and Air BP. Panorama breaks ground at HPN.
  1. HELICOPTER NEWS
    Sikorsky S76D hovers toward certification. Highlights from AMTC 2009.
  1. RAMP & HANGAR TALK
    Jobs, product ads and other reader opportunities.