CAVU Café: Royboy’s Prose & Cons, Page 9 of 16 The views expressed in CAVU Café: Royboy’s Prose & Cons blog are those solely of the writer and are not necessarily shared by the Aviation Suppliers Association or the Association’s staff, members, or Board of Directors. About Roy Resto DO YOU VALUE YOUR INTERNAL/SELF AUDITS?Posted By Roy Resto | June 01, 2018
Like many of you, I’m a ‘morning person’ meaning I go to sleep early and rise early to start my day. When challenged with a big project, my preference is to wake up early and get to work to put in that long day. When it’s time to go home, I leave ... Cannibalizing, Robbing, and Swapping Aircraft PartsPosted By Roy Resto | April 02, 2018
I’d like to add a new choice of terms to our ever evolving aviation lexicon. When an aircraft reaches the end of its life and it’s being parted out, we’re not removing the parts- we’re harvesting the parts from the legacy asset. A word that has m... BLOCKCHAIN IN AVIATION?Posted By Roy Resto | February 01, 2018
Can I order a Big Mac with bitcoin? Not yet, but bitcoin (cryptocurrency) excites many, and is based entirely on blockchain. But is blockchain ready for prime-time in aviation? Use of popular words is observed to cycle through articles, literature,... MASTERS OF LOGISTICS: USTRANSCOM & THE CIVIL RESERVE AIR FLEETPosted December 04, 2017
Think you know logistics? How would you handle the specialized global logistics needs of a world super power and economic behemoth; their humanitarian, government, and military logistics needs? Those needs are indeed gargantuan in scope, but USTRANSC...
Things People & Firms Say They Do in Our Industry but…Posted By Roy Resto | October 02, 2017
Ok, time to wax cynical and poke fun at some non-performers
in the aerospace and aviation industry. Ah, the tyranny of the ‘but’ word. ‘But’ is a conjunction used to introduce something contrasting with what has been already mentioned. Anticipat... COUNTERFEIT AND UNAPPROVED AIRCRAFT PARTS: STATUSPosted By Roy Resto | August 04, 2017
If a tree falls in the forest and the wife does not hear it, is the husband still wrong? Of course he is, or will be! So, if reporting or notifications of certain events appear to be waning, does that infer those events are correspondingly declini... |