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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Faced with a continuing trend of ground-handling incidents during transient aircraft operations, Gulfstream and FlightSafety International have jointly created a new program to instruct FBOs on the best practices developed by the Savannah-based airframer to minimize the potential for accidental harm to aircraft.&nbsp;“Incorrect ground-handling procedures continue to cause significant aircraft damage and schedule delays, which impact our customers and the dispatch availability of the Gulfstream fleet,” said Mark Burns, Gulfstream’s president of product support.
For the remainder of the year, a free preview of FlightSafety’s Gulfstream G350/G450/G500/G550 ground- handling and servicing e-learning course is available to FBO managers. The course reviews all aspects of handling and servicing, from the aircraft’s arrival to its departure, and covers activities such as parking, fueling, towing and lavatory servicing, as well as ice and snow removal.
Jet Aviation’s Bedford, Mass. and Teterboro, N.J. facilities were the launch FBOs for the program, which will expand to other Jet Aviation locations this month. Gulfstream said FBOs that choose to participate in the program will be highlighted in its customer publications.

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