Kerry Lynch stepped into the role of editor of the&nbsp;Aviation International News&nbsp;monthly magazine in May 2022 after serving with&nbsp;AIN&nbsp;for eight years. She joined&nbsp;AIN&nbsp;in December 2014 as a senior editor covering Washington and business aviation news. She has also served on Convention News teams, including as editor of&nbsp;HAI Convention News. Lynch previously spent 25 years with Aviation Week. During her time there, she reported for and later steered&nbsp;The Weekly of Business Aviation, oversaw business aviation content on the&nbsp;Aviation Week Intelligence Network, served on the&nbsp;Show News&nbsp;staff, and held roles as the Washington columnist for&nbsp;Business &amp; Commercial Aviation&nbsp;and&nbsp;Overhaul &amp; Maintenance&nbsp;monthly magazines. In 2021 she was honored with the National Business Aviation Association Platinum Wing Award for lifetime achievement in journalism and was the 2004 recipient of the National Air Transportation Association’s Aviation Journalism Excellence Award. She also has been a recipient of an Aerospace Media Award for business aviation (2022) and NBAA Gold Wing Award (2003, 2024). Lynch graduated from The Ohio State University with a bachelor of arts in journalism.

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Kerry Lynch

FlightSense, a company formed in 2024 to bring an AI-powered platform to the flight training market, recently rolled out its latest update, v1.3, which provides an array of new features.
Powered by FlightSense’s Amelia AI technology, the platform is designed to make flight training more efficient and personalized through a dashboard that enables students to track progress against FAA Airman Certification Standards and flight instructors to share student notes and proficiency monitoring.
V1.3 includes a new training insights dashboard with a real-time snapshot of progress, log activity, and skill trends that is powered by AI-driven analysis that helps identify strengths and pinpoint areas for improvement.
Further, the update includes task-specific performance tracking with detailed instructor feedback, task scores, and AI-generated insights. It also provides enhanced instructor tools with structured feedback, task-level scoring, and more seamless student tracking.
The company said the technology has been gaining traction since it was unveiled last year, in use with flight schools, independent instructors, and student pilots.

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FlightSense Bringing AI Insights to Flight Training Platform

Company recently updated platform with v1.3

FlightSense, which has developed an AI-based platform to make flight training more efficient and provide AI insights, recently rolled out an update.

FlightSense Bringing AI Insights to Flight Training

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In a Corporate Aviation Leadership Summit (CALS) roundtable on retention, an aviation staffing expert and flight department leaders traded hard-won lessons on money, culture, and knowing who you’re really competing with.

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Across three separate CALS sessions, flight department leaders worked through the same hard questions about earning trust, leading individuals, and holding the line.

Leadership from the Cockpit to the Department: What Three Days of Roundtables Revealed

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News and issues concerning the aviation charter and fractional-ownership industries and markets, including company announcements, regulations, new developments and labor issues.

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