Someone categorized time as our greatest resource. Everyone living has it. What we do with and how we manage time makes the difference. Time should be considered as life. To waste time is wasting life. Wasting time reveals the lack [...]
The new rules designed to protect fliers on commercial airlines go into effect on Tuesday. These new regulations are being put in place after years of complaints of abuse by the traveling public. In an effort to prevent long delays [...]
The uncertainty of today's economy along with slimmer balance sheets has caused most aviation users and operators to take a harder look at their daily operations and budget. Are you doing everything you can to increase efficiencies across the board [...]
On July 23rd, Congress adjourned and failed to pass a temporary funding measure for the Federal Aviation Administration. This funding measure's failure to pass has a direct result on 4,000 jobs at the FAA, and an estimated $2M per week [...]
Recently, our esteemed President floated another one of his brainy ideas. This time it was in a speech about the debt ceiling "crisis". His plan is to raise taxes, by disallowing the deduction, on corporations that purchase aircraft for business [...]
Clouds are very familiar to the aviation community. Cloud also is a "noun metaphor" used for the Internet. Information Technology (IT and at least the immediate entity known to me) has transitioned the noun into an acting verb cliche known as [...]
Special Services was recently given another opportunity to help expose a group of kids, their parents and grandparents to the fun, freedom and business of aviation. A local community has put together an annual summer camp for the visiting grandkids [...]
Business aviation plays a vital role for citizens, companies and communities across the U.S. The industry is vital to the national economic interest, generating over a million jobs, providing a lifeline to communities with little or no airline service, helping [...]
Welcome back to the Special Services Corporation Blogspot. Each week we strive to provide pertinent information about our industry and our services. Our desire is to pass along information that is both informative and thought provoking. As you get to [...]
The altitude keeping ability of each aircraft operating in RVSM airspace is key to the safety of the system. Since the system was implemented in January 2005, there have been very few if any problems with the system. The manufacturer [...]