In honor of the 2013 Women in Aviation Conference, the XOJET Blog has been running a series of profiles of some of the great women who work at XOJET. We recently spoke with Nora Jacobsen, who stopped by XOJET’s booth at the 2012 conference and ended up joining us in July 2012—a month after retiring from a 20-year career as a U.S. Navy pilot. She’s now a co-pilot on the XOJET Challenger 300 super-mid-size jet.
XOJET Blog: Talk about your role at XOJET and what your responsibilities are.
Nora: I’m a co-pilot…
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As is the case with most innovations, it was the desire to make life easier that inspired former XOJET captain Joe Dickinson to create one of the most comprehensive aviation iPad/iPhone applications on the market: the Aviation Pilot Duty & Performance Calculator.
Commercial pilots must follow strict guidelines for determining—down to the minute—whether reached the on-duty flight time allowed by FAA regulations.
“We fly a lot and we often have 14-hour work days,” said Dickinson. “It can feel hard to muster the brainpower to do calculations when you’re hungry and tired.”
What makes…
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Aviation was a theme in Brad Stewart’s life even before he was born: His parents met on a charter jet flight—he was a professional hockey player, she was a flight attendant. When Stewart’s father retired from hockey, the family settled first in Cleveland—where Stewart was born on the U.S. bicentennial, July 4, 1976—and then in Eden Prairie, Minnesota, where Stewart grew up. He took his first flying lessons at the age of 19 and has been an aviation enthusiast ever since.
Stewart pursued a successful career in management consulting and private…
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In honor of the 24th Annual International Women in Aviation Conference, the XOJET Blog is re-posting some popular profiles from last year’s series celebrating the great women who work at XOJET. Today, we’re excited to bring you an interview with Sue Frost, Director of Fleet Availability at XOJET. Sue has been promoted since we published the original post in March 2012, so we’ve updated this Q&A to reflect her new role.
XOJET Blog: Sue, tell us a little bit about you and your role at XOJET.
Sue: I’m the Director of Fleet Availability, which…
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In honor of the 2013 Women in Aviation Conference, the XOJET Blog is running a series of profiles of some of the great women who work at XOJET. Today, we’re excited to bring you an interview with Randi Freyer, co-pilot on the XOJET Challenger 300 super-mid-size private jet.
XOJET Blog: Tell us a little bit about you and your role at XOJET.
Randi: I’m a co-pilot on the Challenger 300. Primarily I consider my role to be customer service. We’re the first to interact directly with customers, so we’re the face of XOJET…
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In honor of the 24th Annual International Women in Aviation Conference later this week, the XOJET Blog is re-posting some popular profiles from last year’s series celebrating the great women who work at XOJET. Today, we’re excited to bring you an interview with Tracy Chaplin, Senior Vice President of Procurement.
XOJET Blog: Tracy, tell us a little bit about you and your role at XOJET.
Tracy: I’m the Senior Vice President of Procurement at XOJET, and I’ve been with the company for five years. I manage the team that deals with all of our suppliers,…
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In honor of the 24th Annual International Women in Aviation Conference later this week, the XOJET Blog is re-posting some popular profiles from last year’s series celebrating the great women who work at XOJET. Today, we’re excited to bring you an interview with Audrey Scully, co-pilot on the XOJET Challenger 300 super-mid-size private jet.
XOJET Blog: Audrey, tell us a little bit about you and your role at XOJET.
Audrey: I’m a co-pilot on the XOJET Challenger 300. I share the flight responsibilities with the Captain, but I also use it as a chance to…
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In honor of the 24th Annual International Women in Aviation Conference later this week, the XOJET Blog is re-posting some popular profiles from last year’s series celebrating the great women who work at XOJET. Today’s post is an interview with Amanda Penna, co-pilot on the XOJET Citation X super-mid-size private jet, who was recruited from the same conference in 2011.
XOJET Blog: Amanda, tell us a little bit about you and your role at XOJET.
Amanda: I’m a co-pilot on the XOJET Citation X private jet. XOJET recruited me at the Women in Aviation conference last year, and…
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Got plans to snowboard or ski this spring? Check out this aerial photo of Vail Ski Resort taken by XOJET captain Cort de Peyster as his XOJET Citation X climbs out of Eagle, CO. And if you’re in Vail, celebrate the city’s 50th birthday season at its “Spring Back to Vail” events on April 8-14.
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As curator of the “American Focus” section at The Armory Show this month, Eric Shiner has been handed the nearly impossible task of capturing contemporary American art in a few thousand square feet. Just as calm and cheerful and insightful as he was when we interviewed him in December about his role as director of The Andy Warhol Museum, Eric kindly walked us through the four months leading up to his selection of the 30 artists and 17 galleries participating in “American Focus.”
XOJET: What was your reaction when you were…
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