I am delighted to see that most of the sites I contacted have now published our news about the Sun Valley Airpark movie. It’s wonderful that we already have some supporters who value what we do here at SkyAviator and giving such credit for us is why we do it.

Special thanks as of now go to AVSIM.com, SimFlight.com and the Pilot Magazine.

We’re glad to report that we have published one of the SkyFilm Productions’ latest products (before they closed their doors) up on our website for your watching pleasure! Our visitors have waited for this movie for a long time already and finally it’s here. I made the Sun Valley Airpark movie in 2006 when I went to visit the airpark in USA. I carried quite a lot of video equipment with me all the way to the West Coast from Estonia and I believe the results came quite alright – at least compared to my previous productions! :) The movie is 1 hour and 53 minutes long so take your time. It also features nice songs from known authors and I believe they add a lot to the movie. Yes, the usage was and still is licensed by the appropriate organizations!

To watch the movie, CLICK HERE!

Hi all,

I’m glad to say that SkyAviator is back! We had a hold up for almost a year after the first launch and occasionally our videos in Vimeo didn’t work. That was simply because I had a huge lack of time to deal with this site and I just kept it up as is while planning how to continue with it. We’re now up in the air again and the Sun Valley Airpark film will be published shortly. All the videos are available for watching again and we have put up the Piper Cherokee Cruiser and Piper Arrow YAK-52 movies to vimeo.com and YouTube for public watching and sharing. Enjoy!

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It has been reported that a Czech Airlines (CSA) ATR-42-500 aircraft with tail number OK-KFN on its flight OK777 from Warsaw to Prague was landed at Prague by the co-pilot after having declared emergency when the captain became incapacitated. The emergency personnel were not able to save the captain’s life. The situation was still considered safe since the First Officer could land the aircraft alone.

My condolences to the family of the Captain.

Somebody has come up with a nice idea – why not make a backyard ornament out of a Boeing 747 cockpit? At least a better use for it than going for total scrap.

Often we hear that an airline has delayed a lot of its flights and it is costing them a fortune every day. So why is a delay so expensive for an airline?

First of all, looking from the airline side the flight crew for each flight has certain hours that they can work per day. Once those hours expire or are expected to get expired due to the late flight, the airline has to ask out a standby crew which costs quite a bit. Airlines nowadays never have too many airplanes. Therefore, all of their fleet is generally optimized to fly as tight schedules as possible. If one flight is delayed, the whole day will be a mess since the next flights with the aircraft are going to suffer, too. In addition, every minute of aircraft parking costs money, especially at a foreign aerodrome and this could quickly get very costly for the airline.

Airlines also need to take care of their passengers when a flight is delayed. Especially when the delay was caused due to aircraft failure, crew problems etc – basically anything not weather, earthquake or tsunami related. To make it all good for the passenger, the airline has to offer new tickets, travel vouchers, hotel, transport to and from the hotel and so on.

It has been said that for even a smaller commuter airline any delay more than 15 minutes would cost around $100 per minute and this number could be much higher with larger aircraft.