Kerry Lynch stepped into the role of editor of the&nbsp;Aviation International News&nbsp;monthly magazine in May 2022 after serving with&nbsp;AIN&nbsp;for eight years. She joined&nbsp;AIN&nbsp;in December 2014 as a senior editor covering Washington and business aviation news. She has also served on Convention News teams, including as editor of&nbsp;HAI Convention News. Lynch previously spent 25 years with Aviation Week. During her time there, she reported for and later steered&nbsp;The Weekly of Business Aviation, oversaw business aviation content on the&nbsp;Aviation Week Intelligence Network, served on the&nbsp;Show News&nbsp;staff, and held roles as the Washington columnist for&nbsp;Business &amp; Commercial Aviation&nbsp;and&nbsp;Overhaul &amp; Maintenance&nbsp;monthly magazines. In 2021 she was honored with the National Business Aviation Association Platinum Wing Award for lifetime achievement in journalism and was the 2004 recipient of the National Air Transportation Association’s Aviation Journalism Excellence Award. She also has been a recipient of an Aerospace Media Award for business aviation (2022) and NBAA Gold Wing Award (2003, 2024). Lynch graduated from The Ohio State University with a bachelor of arts in journalism.

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Aviation insurer USAIG has added Kansas-based Turbine Training Center (TTC) to the options in its Performance Vector Program. TTC provides simulator-based training for agricultural aerial applicator pilots.&nbsp;When a policyholder selects TTC as its annual safety benefit from the program, USAIG will issue a certificate confirming it will pay up to $2,500 of the training fees for airplane pilots.
Under the Performance Vector Program, eligible USAIG policyholders can select one program annually to improve upon loss of control and other safety issues. Eligible parties include those with a USAIG turbine-powered aircraft policy or with multiple policies.
“Aerial applicators are vital to modern agriculture and represent an important business segment for USAIG,” said Ken Nielsen, underwriting v-p and agricultural aviation business line manager for the insurer.&nbsp;But aerial applications require a high level of proficiency from pilots, given the need to operate close to the ground in high-performance turboprop aircraft, USAIG noted. It pointed to other risk factors such as long hours in austere and changing locations, as well as seasonal surges in workload.
“Aerial applicators have unique needs and many options in our safety program that are geared more toward corporate jet operations just aren’t as relevant to their specialized operations, Nielsen explained, adding that is why it decided to add an agricultural training specialist to Performance Vector.

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USAIG added Kansas-based Turbine Training Center (TTC) to its Performance Vector Program selections, extending the options to ag operations training.

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