Business and Corporate Aviation Management, Second Edition, 2nd Edition

CHAPTER 5

Flight Department Management

While most flight department personnel have a good feel for what it takes to fly and maintain aircraft, they often have little appreciation for how to integrate those operations with other elements that go into running a flight department. Scheduling, personnel, reports, budgets, planning, communications, and control all have a significant impact on flight department operations but may be foreign concepts to the people responsible for running the department. In many ways, aviation personnel lag behind their corporate counterparts in knowledge of these essential elements because while the aviation people were focusing on the narrow disciplines of flight and maintenance at the beginning of their careers, the ...