Jamie Beckett is a CFI and A&P mechanic who stepped into the political arena in an effort to promote and protect GA at his local airport. He is also a founding partner and regular contributor to FlightMonkeys.com. While I am a bit of a workaholic who is not at all unfamiliar with the sights and […]
Politics for Pilots
Redlands, California goes renegade – and it’s working
Jamie Beckett is a CFI and A&P mechanic who stepped into the political arena in an effort to promote and protect GA at his local airport. He is also a founding partner and regular contributor to FlightMonkeys.com. Roughly 65 miles to the east of Los Angeles is the mid-sized city of Redlands, California. With a […]
Don’t be a one-trick pony
Jamie Beckett is a CFI and A&P mechanic who stepped into the political arena in an effort to promote and protect GA at his local airport. He is also a founding partner and regular contributor to FlightMonkeys.com. Bear with me for a minute. I’m going to use your imagination to help make a point. It’s […]
GA’s most effective advocate just might be you
Jamie Beckett is a CFI and A&P mechanic who stepped into the political arena in an effort to promote and protect GA at his local airport. He is also a founding partner and regular contributor to FlightMonkeys.com. If you want to make headway in the realm of politics, you need to have advocates working on […]
Navigating a course to the future
Dick Gaynor is running for a seat on the city council in Columbus, Indiana. I know this because he wrote to tell me so. You see, Dick is a pilot who has gotten involved in the political fabric of life in Columbus. I did the same thing here in Winter Haven, FL. Misery loves company, […]
When opportunity knocks…do something
Jamie Beckett is a CFI and A&P mechanic who stepped into the political arena in an effort to promote and protect GA at his local airport. He is also a founding partner and regular contributor to FlightMonkeys.com. It seems like an obvious axiom of business. When opportunity knocks, answer the door, say “Hello,” invite it […]
A winning perspective
Jamie Beckett is a CFI and A&P mechanic who stepped into the political arena in an effort to promote and protect GA at his local airport. He is also a founding partner and regular contributor to FlightMonkeys.com. In February I gave a speech to a group of business and civic leaders on the value of […]
The value of aviation
GAN blogger Jamie Beckett was recently invited to speak to the East Polk Committee of 100 at their February 2011 gathering. The topic was aviation — which is right up his alley. After talking about the speech in his blog, many GAN readers asked for a video of the speech. He didn’t have one, so […]
The dollars and sense of Sun ‘n Fun
Jamie Beckett is a CFI and A&P mechanic who stepped into the political arena in an effort to promote and protect GA at his local airport. He is also a founding partner and regular contributor to FlightMonkeys.com. It was nearly 40 years ago when a spry young fellow named Billy Henderson gathered with a small […]