Matt Thurber, editor-in-chief at AIN Media Group, has been flying since 1975 and writing about aviation since 1978 and now has the best job in the world, running editorial operations for Aviation International News, Business Jet Traveler, and FutureFlight.aero. In addition to working as an A&amp;P mechanic on everything from Piper Cubs to turboprops, Matt taught flying at his father’s flight school in Plymouth, Mass., in the early 1980s, flew for an aircraft owner/pilot, and for two summer seasons hunted swordfish near the George’s Banks off the East Coast from a Piper Super Cub. An ATP certificated fixed-wing pilot and CFII and commercial helicopter pilot, Matt is type-rated in the Citation 500 and Gulfstream V/550. Based in the Pacific Northwest, Matt and his team cover the entire aviation scene including business aircraft, helicopters, avionics, safety, manufacturing, charter, fractionals, technology, air transport, advanced air mobility, defense, and other subjects of interest to AIN, BJT, and FutureFlight readers.

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Women in Corporate Aviation (WCA) is preparing to celebrate its 25th year and wants members to know that <a href="http://wca-intl.org/scholarships.html">$10,000 worth of scholarships</a> are available, but applications are due by January 8. The association is also ramping up fundraising to help it expand and serve new members all over the world.

 


WCA will award scholarships from Air Training International for a flight procedures course; Charlie Bravo Aviation, aircraft acquisitions course; Dassault Falcon Jet, safety and/or management course; and a USC Viterbi Aviation Safety and Security program. Winners will be notified on February 15, and the awards will be announced at a ceremony at the International Women in Aviation Conference in Reno, Nevada, on March 23.

 


“We encourage any member—whether a pilot, maintenance technician, flight attendant, or aspiring aviation leader—to apply for a scholarship,” said WCA president Cindy Youngblood. “There is a wide variety of training opportunities available for nearly any role within the business aviation industry.”

 


To help expand its fundraising efforts, WCA is tapping alternative resources, including GoFundMe and Amazon Smile. Traditional donation sources are dwindling due to flight department closures and “general downturns in the industry,” according to WCA executive director Elizabeth Clark. “It’s become necessary to work harder to fund our events, and, especially with this organization’s international growth, these new, creative funding resources are becoming ever more vital to us.”

 


The association depends on volunteers to help support its worldwide activities. “They’ve kept us going, because there’s a definite need for the aviation world to see and benefit from the contributions of women in corporate and business aviation,” Clark explained. “As we prepare for our 25th year, we’re excited to increase our brand awareness and grow our membership throughout the world.

 


“We bring not only&nbsp;visibility to many women who work behind the scenes, but also a sense of camaraderie not found elsewhere. We are in a unique segment of the aviation world and though we, ourselves, are relatively few in number, we must support and encourage the increasing number of women interested in these careers. Opportunity is present, preparation is present, desire is present, and we need to keep the momentum going to further this very worthy cause.”

News about simulators and training procedures, as well as workforce.

WCA Seeking Applicants for $10,000 in Scholarships

Women in Corporate Aviation is seeking scholarship applicants and creative new sources of fundraising.

2024 Corporate Aviation Leadership Summit

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News and information on safety procedures and concerns.

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In a Corporate Aviation Leadership Summit (CALS) roundtable on retention, an aviation staffing expert and flight department leaders traded hard-won lessons on money, culture, and knowing who you’re really competing with.

The Retention Stool Has Four Legs: What Flight Departments Get Wrong about Keeping Talent

Across three separate CALS sessions, flight department leaders worked through the same hard questions about earning trust, leading individuals, and holding the line.

Leadership from the Cockpit to the Department: What Three Days of Roundtables Revealed

News and developments about airplanes, helicopters and unmanned air vehicles used in all varieties of operations, including airlines, military, business, commercial, general aviation and private.

News and issues relating to the aerospace industry that are related to the science, engineering and business of flight in space involving civil, industrial and military applications, and similar topics related to flight in the atmosphere of the Earth that are not covered more directly by other AINonline subject channels. In other words, both astronautical and aeronautical subjects, except for those aeronautical topics that are specifically covered elsewhere on this website.

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News and issues concerning the aviation charter and fractional-ownership industries and markets, including company announcements, regulations, new developments and labor issues.

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Leadership from the Cockpit to the Department: What Three Days of Roundtables Revealed

Across three separate CALS sessions, flight department leaders worked through the same hard questions about earning trust, leading individuals, and holding the line.

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Draper to stay until the end of the year to smooth the transition

Air Charter Association Expands NextGen Group

Saxon Air executive Rachel Harvey chairs the group for young charter professionals

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Building recruiting reputations for your company long before a job is posted

Kawasaki To Deploy 1st Asia-Pac Loft H145 VR Simulator

Virtual-reality device allows pilots and crew to practice realistic emergency scenarios

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