Entering Business Aviation, Part III: Training Options
Alteon Training, LLC is a Boeing training company that started cabin attendant training in 2003 while Beyond and Above Corporate Flight Attendant Training got started in 2002. Matt runs the widely popular Corporate Flight Attendant Community website at http. There are quite a number of programs out there that train or claim to train business flight attendants. Please be aware that the Federal Aviation Regulations (FARs) do not require that a flight attendant be assigned to an aircraft with fewer than 20 seats onboard. Time for some training! So, you are not sure what type of training you will need or how it compares to the commercial side of aviation.
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Entering Business Aviation, Part II: Pay Rates for Flight Attendants
Indeed, the NBAA supports this data with a recent survey showing that the average corporate flight attendant is paid just over 53K per year. Matt manages the Corporate Flight Attendant Community at http. You know that aviation pays better than commercial, in most cases a lot better, but you aren't sure what the going rate is for a corporate flight attendant. The higher salary can be expected when you have a VP title and be in charge of several flight attendants. Between corporate moguls and Hollywood celebrities, the two metropolitan areas produce some of the most significant amounts of flying in business aviation.
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Entering Business Aviation, Part I: Types of Aircraft
Matt manages the Corporate Flight Attendant Community at http. In addition, Embraer has recently entered the market and there are various Hawker 800XPs and other similarly sized aircraft that sometimes will utilize a flight attendant. Across the board, corporate aircraft are exquisitely outfitted. Most of the Gulfstream aircraft in flight are under the designation of Gulfstream II, III, IV, and V. The jets that people fly in corporate aviation are usually a lot smaller than those found with the airlines.
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Business Aviation Networking Notes
Matt manages the Corporate Flight Attendant Community at http. Some of these operators utilize larger cabin aircraft and are in need of flight attendants. Jet Aviation, TAG, and Netjets are some of the larger players and they all have a staff of qualified flight attendants or cabin service representatives on hand. Finally, you have a whole host of independent flight departments with one, two or more aircraft. In corporate aviation, there are several key players in the field that you probably have heard of.
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International Corporate Catering Guide
Many of the catering recommendations were received by knowledgeable corporate flight attendants directly. He manages several sites including the Corporate Flight Attendant Community and the Aviation Employment Board. One of the more challenging aspects of being a flight attendant is providing in-flight service excellence to your customers. The guide will be updated on a regular basis and is currently available in paperback and eventually also will be available on CDROM. Always check in advance to see if the caterer is still available.
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Entering Business Aviation, Part IV: Crafting a Resume
In my many years of reviewing pilot and, later, flight attendant résumés I have seen submitted anything from multipage treatises to two paragraph summations. As a private flight attendant, your résumé should fall somewhere in between. Taking other types of training related to the field can and should be mentioned as well including. For example, emergency egress training, emergency medical procedures, food safety and culinary arts, wine service, etc. After including your work history, you will need to list your training.
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Entering Business Aviation, Part V: Tips on Finding Work
This last community, the Aviation Employment Board is run by me and is a companion to the Corporate Flight Attendant Community. If you are a corporate flight attendant, do not expect many jobs to be listed publicly in any case. Matt is the admistrator of the Corporate Flight Attendant Community at http. This website was created by me to be a resource center for private flight attendants, those who aspire to become one, and their supporters. I draw upon industry leaders as well as the private flight attendants themselves to communicate what is going on in the industry, particularly from the cabin crewmember's point of view.
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Leading Private Jet Charter Operators
In each case you get the security of having two highly trained FAA licensed pilots and you can opt for a corporate flight attendant to provide cabin services and safety assistance. Chief amongst these types of providers are. A third option is to approach one of the private jet aircraft brokers who will arrange the trip for you. These are no King Airs, Lears, and Westwinds you will be flying. There are also several operations that will allow you to purchase a portion of a jet.
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Is your air traffic control person real?
But besides that these VR Control towers right now are only simulators for training control tower operators, for instance you can have the busiest day at Laguardia, O'Hare, LAX or even the EAA show is Oshkosh just to give you a challenge. You can also stay up on this information by subscribing the newsletter. It will not be long now before many aircraft are flying themselves and the air traffic control personal in the control towers do not even have windows to look outside, as the whole thing will be in a video game like augmented reality which will be recorded for later use in virtual reality training of new controllers in air traffic control simulators. Think about this and the virtual reality simulators used in aviation. Did you know that air traffic professionals are now training in virtual reality simulators hooked up to pilots in aircraft simulators and the whole thing does not even exist? Talk about working in a dream world.
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Private Jet Ownership Indeed
Where would you like to fly today? Think about it. Fractional Jet ownership has never been easy. As a matter of fact manufacturers of business aircraft are quite happy with the market sector and most are completely bullish on their future prospects in the industry. Private jet ownership is really taking off these days. There is much interest in the private transportation sector and jet aircraft business.
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Starting an Aircraft Washing Business
We've cleaned thousands of private planes, corporate jets, flying clubs, flight schools and helicopters. Corporate Aviators need you to maintain their positive image. After cleaning Thousands of aircraft over the years, I have paid for my flight school, first aircraft and then started an aircraft washing franchise as a module of another franchising company I had founded. Carpet Shampooing, Bright Work and Aluminum Polishing, etc. Customizing your services with the customer's requirements must become your specialty.
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Fighter Jet Trainers Sport Planes
Now as a matter of fact I talked to a training pilot in San Antonio who said they were getting their first ones in last June. Many third world countries go to Arizona and use old vintage A-4s for training or train in the desert in CA. Many countries still are not exactly feeling good about buying the Korean T-50s. The US is now taking delivery of Raytheon's T-6A Texan 2 has the security of U. Many Aerospace consultants in Europe believe this aircraft may take the lead around the world as the trainer of place.
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A Look at Fractional Jet Ownership
Naturally, the Gulfstream 550 also offers a full service galley, as well as a flight attendant for you and 13 others. If you're Donald Trump, you can think nothing of equipping yourself with a Boeing 727 that costs probably close to $50 Million (not including the costs of pilots, flight attendants, support staff, insurance, fuel, maintenance, etc. In fact, as a little experiment, I attempted to get the price on such a flight on very short notice. If you decide that fractional ownership is for you, be warned, you should thoroughly investigate the pilot training, safety procedures, aircraft, and management services that each company offers before making a decision. With a commercial carrier, I was unable to find a next-day flight, I was unable to find first class seating, and on one airline, I was informed that a return flight wouldn't be available until a week after the date I requested.
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Airline Security; Stewardesses The Last Line Of Defense!
Dan Sommer is the author of the SD Agent, a Surveillance Detection Manual, he has been part of the process of designing, implementing and training a SD team for a European Embassy. On the majority of flights, there are no Air Marshals, so problems have to be faced by the Stewardesses. Since 1994 the author has been writing training material's for security companies and police departments. These skills should simply be part of the standard Stewardess training program, with regular retraining. Now, some will argue that training Stewardesses, to deal with terrorist incidents are wrong and the focus should be on passenger and baggage security screening.
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Common Cockpit Concepts and Convenient Configurations
We spend too much time in training of soldiers, drivers, pilots, operators with increasingly more complicated equipment. When you go to driver training or into a simulator for your check ride, you simply find the best and most comfortable position and set it. Now then I am not criticizing the lack of cranial capacity in the modern day human, rather simply suggesting a reality check is needed. If we borrow a friend's car we are constantly looking for where stuff is, where is the hood release, fuel hatch release and how the hell do I turn off this G-Dang windshield wiper? As machines get more complicated and humans become more brain dead due to bad use of natural selection, we will need counter these issues with better designed standardization such is being done in the CCI. If you gain or lose weight you can then adjust manually the Common Cockpit you are in and it will imprint on your SmartCard the new position.
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