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

One program that GE Aviation expects will migrate from its commercial powerplant side to its business aircraft engine division is its myEngines offering. A series of digital smartphone applications aimed at helping operators better manage their engine fleets and improve productivity, the program was started in 2010 for commercial customers. Its engine monitoring function can send alerts from aircraft in flight, notifying maintenance departments of potential problems. 
“We’ve got a lot of experience with diagnostics and the algorithms that are built around them to make sure that we can identify problems as they occur or even before they occur,” said Shawn O’Day, GE Aviation’s marketing leader for business and general aviation. 
He said one difference between the commercial program and the business aviation program will likely be the information requested. Commercial customers with numerous engines indicated that they are interested primarily in receiving updates on their mobile devices as to a particular engine’s repair or overhaul shop status and when it would be available for use. 
“On the business aviation side, our customers don’t see a lot of shop visits,” O’Day told AIN. “What we are hearing is they want to know more about “how the performance on my engines is doing, and is there some kind of a problem that I need to be aware of…before the VIP that I am flying on that aircraft even feels or hears it.” 
“I think there is a lot of value in it in terms of monitoring health management, knowing exactly what the health is and also how the fuel consumption is,” said Dr. Laurent Rouard, GE Aviation’s chief marketing officer. “We don’t have any timeline for the launch of the application, but I would imagine that we’ll be launching something before the end of the year for business aviation.”

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