A Closer Look at Jet Linx Jet Linx is finalizing a lease at Chicago Executive Airport and plans to open its new base before the holidays. Founded in 1999 in Omaha, the company currently manages 105 aircraft for clients around the country from more than a dozen bases in locations like Dallas, Denver, Atlanta, Washington DC and more, with plans …
If it’s January, the Chicago Area 99’s IFR/VFR Aviation Expo can’t be far off. In fact, the expo is this Saturday January 27th starting at 8:00 a.m. at the Itasca Holiday Inn at 860 W. Irving Park Rd and everyone’s invited. You don’t need to be a pilot. Just like last year, the Expo is divided into three interest categories, so …
Do You Know Lou Wipotnik? There aren’t too many things around PWK that date back to 1957. The old timers still call it Pal-Waukee Airport and will probably never stop. The airport’s original control tower built above hangar 4 in the 60s was torn down years ago and replaced by a more modern structure where controllers keep an eye on things …
If you have young people around your house, you probably know the number of summer jobs for kids continues to dwindle. The ones that do come along are often boring minimum wage positions too. But what if your teenager was offered the chance to earn some money AND gather some valuable work experience … at well … an airport? Here’s that big opportunity …Click …
Mr. Abbott Goes to Tokyo Late in September, Chicago Executive Airport Executive Director, Jamie Abbott, was invited to speak about EMAS, the engineered material arresting system installed on both ends of the airport longest runway 16/34. EMAS is designed to snag an airplane that normally might have run off the end of the runway, possibly spilling on to nearby highways. …
Part 107 Drone Rule is Here In case you missed the news, the FAA last week made Part 107, governing the commercial use of drones, the law of the land. Part 107, containing the operational and safety rules for drones, is expected to make it easier to organize and certify the pilots who operate them. From this point forward, commercial …
Life Inside the Fence Despite the tall steel security fences that seem ready to halt people from any angle they might approach the airport, we actually organize quite a few events, many of which you don’t need to be a pilot to attend. Take a look at what’s coming up, as well as a few of the happenings you might …
To those on the ground, airspace is invisibly boundless. All that changes in an airplane. To make flying safe for pilots, their passengers, and people on the ground , the sky is subdivided into unseen slices delineated by altitude and distances from specific points on the ground, like airports. In each of five airspace categories, pilots and aircraft must meet …
Chicago Executive Airport is one of thousands of airports that dot the American landscape. Each of them is different, but pilots have little trouble navigating around them because each of them use standardized pavement markings on the taxiways and runways that safely and efficiently guide them from the ramp to the sky. (Although they didn’t offer much help to the runners …
Airports are labor intensive businesses. Every time you turn around, there always seems to something that needs attention. A runway check each morning is easy enough to point out a broken runway light or two, or patch a piece of crumbling taxiway pavement. Sometimes though, the work’s a bit more involved, like when an airplane ends up somewhere we hope …
