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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Curt Epstein

Academy Aviation Group announced a new business division, Academy Aviation Online (AAO), last week at the NBAA Maintenance Conference.&nbsp;Featuring an online learning management system, AAO aims to bring a fresh approach to self-directed e-learning through its pool of subject matter expert, such as Academy Aviation Maintenance Training (AAMT) in Melbourne, Florida; Academy 147 in Europe; and ATC Dubai in the UAE.
These experts will write and maintain the content in their respective areas while AAO will host the courses, which will include human factors, safety management systems, suspected unapproved parts, and aviation awareness for MRO and FBO staff. &nbsp;According to the company, new courses—each with interactive multimedia features, including videos and quizzes—will be posted to the site every month.
Each class will have an assigned subject matter expert who will be available to engage with students and answer questions.&nbsp;Students will be able to study at their own pace from lesson plans that merge theoretical training aspects with real-world case studies.
“The e-learning platform is being launched to satisfy those customer requirements for critically important non-technical courses, providing a simple path to maintain compliance and expand their employee knowledge base,” AAMT president Joe Bonita told AIN.
AAO will formally launch around midyear, and Academy Aviation Group is now accepting early bookings with launch customer pricing.

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