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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Arizona-based advanced flight training provider&nbsp;Aviation Performance Solutions (APS) has introduced an upset prevention and recovery training (UPRT) curriculum focused on operators of the Pilatus PC-12 and PC-24.
Given PC-12 turboprop single and PC-24 light twinjet capabilities, pilots routinely operate these aircraft across a broad range of missions and conditions. APS’ Pilatus Family UPRT Program—building on the company’s decade-plus of supporting the Pilatus pilot community, including partnership with the Pilatus Owners and Pilots Association—will provide pilots of those aircraft with a training solution designed to prepare them to recognize, prevent, and recover from unexpected airplane upsets before they escalate into loss of control in-flight (LOC-I), one of the leading causes of aviation fatalities.
According to APS, the course combines academics, all-attitude on-aircraft training, advanced simulation, and type-specific virtual reality to develop transferable upset prevention and recovery skills tailored to the operating environments and missions of PC-12 and PC-24 pilots.
“Pilatus aircraft give pilots tremendous capability and operational flexibility, requiring training that reflects the way these aircraft are actually flown,” said APS CEO Paul Ransbury. “Our Pilatus program prepares pilots for the unexpected, building the skills and resilience to prevent an airplane upset from becoming a catastrophic loss of control.”

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