Corporate Aviation Management

Foreword

Foreword IT WOULD NOT BE NECESSARY FOR ME TO KICK OFF my shoes and socks to count how many pilots in the United States possess as much knowledge about the subject ofcorporate aviation management as Raoul Castro. Ifyou were to add the requirement that the members ofthis knowledgeable group had to reduce their thoughts to writing, the numbers would shrink substantially. These sixteen chapters ofvintage Castro should be as mandatory to read by corporate pilots and corporate aviation managers as an FAA Airworthiness Directive. They could even be referred to as the sixteen commandments of corporate flight operations. Raoul Castro did not come by this storehouse ofinformation the easy way. He paid his dues in driving through three decades of the characterbuilding weather ofsummer and winter in the Great Lakes region long before business jet aircraft appeared on the scene and took all the hair out of flying through thunderstorms inJuly and icing most ofthe rest ofthe time. He has always maintained a high profile in the science ofsafe flight sharing both his experience and intelligent views on various committees, panels, and forums of the National Business Aircraft Association and other similar organizations. In so doing, Raoul's one dominating precept has always shone through, and that is his firm doctrine that in our business we fly people; we don't fly airplanes. Come next grass Raoul will complete four decades of dedication to corporate flying. Come graze in his pasture and munch on his wisdom. Torch Lewis ...