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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Looking to help pilots and flight planners cut down on the number of tools they require to perform their tasks, Honeywell Aerospace is unveiling its new GoDirect flight planning technology, which the company says will provide faster and better options when planning flights worldwide. The software system and its accompanying website are designed to simplify the planning process by minimizing the amount of information that needs to be input, thereby reducing the time required to plan a flight. According to Honeywell, which is demonstrating the new system at NBAA-BACE (Booth 2600), in a two-month trial period, it generated both domestic and international&nbsp;flight plans 75 percent more rapidly than&nbsp;older methods.

 


“Honeywell has built a unique flight planning solution around next-generation flight management system technology,” said John Peterson, the company’s senior director for connectivity services. “With just a click, GoDirect flight planning presents pilots with a comprehensive list of routes at multiple cruise modes and various approaches and departures. In addition, the pilot can select the route based on time, fuel used and forecasted weather around the globe.”

 


All GoDirect Flight Service customers have access to the GoDirect Flight Bag Pro, Honeywell’s electronic flight bag application, and now with a single sign on, they can move easily between previously separate portals, allowing them to monitor their cabin connectivity, flight planning and flight tracking all from one place.

Honeywell Unveils New Flight Planning Software

Debuting at NBAA '18, the new GoDirect system promises to make the flight planning process faster and easier.

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