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

As NBAA’s 2016 Schedulers and Dispatchers Conference comes to a close, show organizers continued the SDC’s recent trend of making making an impact in the host city. For the sixth straight year, the Schedulers and Dispatchers (S&amp;D) advisory council sponsored a “Pay-It-Forward” clothing drive, asking attendees to bring gently worn business attire for donation to Dress for Success-Tampa Bay, and Abe Brown Ministries, two local non-profit organizations that will help disadvantaged people secure employment.

 


This year’s total—4,379 garments—shattered the mark set last year, when 1,500 items were donated, according to MedAire’s Debbi Laux, who co-created and chairs the effort. This year's donation included 3,800 new dress shirts and blouses worth $95,000 donated by World Fuel Services (with Bizmark, Alliance Aviation, Executive Flight Center and Jet Aviation), Universal Weather &amp; Aviation, Landmark Aviation, Rockwell Collins, Signature Aviation, Shirtboy and Air Service Hawaii.

 


New this year was a food drive, initiated by Eve Gregory, this year’s SDC chair. That effort collected more than $4,000 in donations. On the first day of the show, volunteer attendees packed 800 bags with food supplied in part by Gregory’s employer (and NBAA member) C&amp;S Wholesale Grocers, to be distributed to hungry children in the area.

Charity a Hallmark of NBAA’s Schedulers and Dispatchers

A new food drive joined the show’s annual Pay It Forward clothing donations.

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