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Articles
Fractional Fairy Tales a promotional piece by Eric Elfman for air charter broker Air Royale.
Wikipedia on VLJ's the internet's encyclopedia, is beginning to pick up the debate about VLJ's, air taxi and the future of general aviation.
Behind the VLJ Frenzy—What Insurers, OEMs and Charter Providers Are Saying - This article a "Watershed" moment, as it breaks the mold and challenges other aviation journalists to report information with less bias. These articles appeared originally on Airport Journals, and are reprinted here.
Airspace an Issue? This article may have legitimate or perhaps unjustified concerns - you decide. No matter what people think about air taxi, air charter, or general aviation and the future of little planes..many experts are not worried about darkened skies.
Air Taxi-Myth or New Market Niche? a thorough article, by a thorough journalist. This article seeks who the real buyers of these aircraft are.
When Brokers Go Bad: Got questions about the future of air charter brokering and the DOT? An article featuring one of our handsome and fearless founders, although clearly he had a lot on his mind.
Pros and Cons of On Site Audits: A piece on the audit business and how it has proponents and detractors. Also nice for us on the inside too.
Fractional Fairy Tales a promotional piece by Eric Elfman for air charter broker Air Royale.
Safety Downloads
Barriers to Communication is a good one to show the boss when he threatens to fire you for pointing out that you don't have an MEL or that you don't feel comfortable flying the King Air, at night, IFR, to a non-precision approach, circle to land at an airport you have not frequented before. This PDF comes to us via Mike McKendry - our safety guru in residence. You can reach him via email.
Mountain Airports and the associated rules that one should be very aware of. These cover Aspen, CO (KASE), Eagle, CO (KEGE), Rifle, CO (KRIL), Telluride, CO (KTEX), Jackson Hole, WY (KJAC), Sun Valley, ID (KSUN). The following chart is thought to have been originated by one of the major Fractional/Charter operators. It is in wide-spread use within the industry, and appears in many General Operations Manuals. It recognizes the additional risk associated with these particular airports, and attempts to mitigate that risk.
Features
All of our empty legs are available here in an easily readable format. Want them in excel? Try this link.
The LeaderBoard is a place where we rank the friendly competition between our member operators, and how they use the site.
Lots of carriers want to know how to become Professional Members (
). Here's how.
We maintain a list of Air Charter-related Links. You can add yourself to it from that same page.
Do you run Firefox as a web browser? If so, we have a downloadable Plugin for the browser (any OS) that allows you to add a PlaneGuide search to the drop down search box in the upper right hand corner. Click here to have us sit next to your Google, Ebay, and Amazon searches to the right of the word Go:
Planeguide views
The Destination Guide is a browseable list of active airports.
The Tail Guide is a browseable list of all of our planes.
The Operator Guide is a browseable list of every known charter operator.
The Airport Index is an index of every airport, all on one page.
The Operator Index is an index of every operator, all on one page.
The International Airports page helps you to find airports in many major countries.
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