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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The National Transportation Safety Board today held an annual review of its “most wanted” list of transportation safety improvements. Newly added to the aviation list was a call for better oversight of Part 121 pilot proficiency, to which the board assigned the status of “urgent or currently unacceptable response.” Highlighting the issue was the Colgan Air accident in Buffalo, N.Y., last year in which the carrier was unaware of previous check rides the captain had failed. Among the items still deemed “unacceptable” or “requiring urgent attention” was flight into known-icing and aviation fatigue, while a call for cockpit image recorders was downgraded from acceptable to unacceptable. The NTSB did note progress in the areas of runway safety and crew resource management, moving both from unacceptable to “slowly progressing.” The board applauded new rules mandating that all legs of EMS helicopter flights be conducted under Part 135, but it found unacceptable the FAA’s progress on adopting EMS flight and duty time rules, flight-risk evaluation protocols, formalized flight following and dispatch, and a TAWS mandate.

NTSB Updates Most Wanted Safety List

The National Transportation Safety Board today held an annual review of its “most wanted” list of transportation safety improvements.

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