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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Building on its noise-abatement program introduced in 2007, the advisory board at Colorado’s Aspen/Pitkin County Airport (KASE) has released the next phase with a new voluntary program for aircraft operators.&nbsp;Known as the <a href="https://acrobat.adobe.com/id/urn:aaid:sc:us:84338ff4-21fe-42d8-ba08-820a86a85a11">Fly with Integrity Noise Program</a>, this latest evolution is an outshoot of the 2020 ASE Vision Process, which examined how the airport should be modernized to accommodate the Aspen-area’s air service needs and aims to&nbsp;reduce airport-related noise emissions by 30%.
The program will apply to Part 135 and Part 91 operators, as well as airlines, classified according to number of operations. It will use data from a variety of sources—third-party radar data, year-round noise monitoring, and observations from airport and consultant staff, among others.
Operators will be evaluated under a rubric of five compliance measures and three bonus measures, which also will be used track the success of noise-reduction efforts.&nbsp;The former includes fleet noise quality, high noise events, curfew, measured quiet departure, and noise contour size, while the latter consists of commitment to minimize ground noise, sustainability commitment, and quietest aircraft types.
Its grading system is based on the percentage of compliance, with end-of-year reports issued for each operator. Results will be processed into a 0-100 rating system to demonstrate which operator is the best in each category and how each operator rates. This data will also be published online.

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