A lifelong aviation enthusiast who joined&nbsp;AIN&nbsp;in 2007, Curt came to&nbsp;the publication&nbsp;from the broadcast industry where he was a national science and technology television reporter and producer. He writes on the FBO field, aviation finance, and sustainable aviation and occasionally contributes to&nbsp;AIN&nbsp;sister publication&nbsp;Business Jet Traveler. Curt was a member of the AINtv reporting staff that won the 2008 Aerospace Journalist of the Year award for Best Airshow Daily. That same year, he was a finalist for another AJOYA award. He earned an AJOYA for Best Business Aviation Submission in 2018 and was a finalist in that category in 2021. He received the National Air Transportation Association’s&nbsp; Aviation Journalist Award in 2012 and won a Pegasus Sapphire Business Aviation Award for outstanding journalism in 2021.
Before joining AIN, Curt worked with&nbsp;Consumer Reports’ television division, CRTV, and for several local television news staffs. An honors graduate of the State University of New York at Stony Brook, he earned a master’s degree in broadcast journalism from Boston University in 1995. Curt lives in New York State with his wife and two young sons.

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Curt Epstein

Aircraft departing New York City-area Teterboro Airport’s (KTEB) Runway 24 will now use the new WENTZ 1 RNAV SID. The departure route was intended to replace RUUDY 6 in starting in July, but its implementation was delayed to ensure proper air traffic control (ATC) training and familiarity.
According to the Teterboro Users Group (TUG), it has worked with the FAA to develop a KTEB Runway 24 SID that “offers greater clarity, improved procedural simplicity, and lower susceptibility to error than the current RUUDY 6 SID.”
TUG offered two specific reminders for operators unfamiliar with the new procedure, noting that the maximum altitude for WENTZ is 1,500 feet, with aircraft not permitted to climb above that until authorized to do so by ATC. In addition, there are no left-hand turnouts allowed in the new departure route—to do so will put aircraft leaving KTEB into the Newark Liberty International Airport (KEWR) traffic flow.
RUUDY 6 will remain as a fallback for some time should unforeseen circumstances necessitate its use, and it is expected to be eliminated within the coming year.

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