Welcome to the
Centennial Airport Business Association's
September Newsletter! It has been quite a
busy summer and our committees are plunging
forward. Please keep in mind that we are
always looking for people to help us in our
endeavors. These committees are as
follows: · Communications ·
Operations, Safety, and Security · Colorado
Airports · Community Outreach ·
Education · Schedulers and Dispatchers ·
Membership If anyone is interested in
joining or participating in these committees
please contact Brittany Davies at bdavies@mycaba.org.
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CABA Website Updates and YOU! www.mycaba.org |
Have you
been to our website yet? We are constantly
updating our website and are looking for any ideas
from our users. Feel free to browse through
it and let us know if you have any comments or
suggestions for the future of our website.
Contact Brittany Davies (bdavies@mycaba.org). |
Southern Colorado Regional
Group Host NBAA President, Ed
Bolen
On September 3rd, a group
of CABA officers and members attended the
Southern Colorado Regional Group's NBAA breakfast
featuring guest speaker Ed Bolen. Mr. Bolen
discussed the image of business aviation today and
the issues associated with the industry.
Quick to highlight the "No Plane, No Gain"
campaign, he outlined the four major points
that the public often negates.
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The Aviation
industry is responisble for employing more than
1.2 million people
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With airlines
restricting commercial service, business
aviation serves those communities who are
impacted by these limitations
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Most companies
that utilize business aviation are small to
medium size companies, not Fat Cats
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Business
avaition includes those life saving services to
the community
He also stated that it is everyone's duty
within the industry to speak up on the issues and
challenged the crowd to change the image that
is portrayed. |
Creating a
Compelling Future
Operations,
Safety, and Security Committee
By Donovan
DeVasher
It is with great anticipation
and excitement that CABA announces the
Educational Outreach Program that will begin to
connect our members with bright young talent
that are interested in pursuing careers in
aviation. Our overarching mission is to help
enrich our membership with the great
industriousness and ground-breaking innovations
of younger generations-the program's aim, to
give a voice to enlightened ideas, while also
extending a mentoring hand. The
CABA Educational Outreach Program is
specifically designed to feed the intellectual
and professional advancement of Colorado
university/college students interested in
pursuing careers in aviation. Tapping into the
vast wealth of CABA members' expertise and
emerging business needs and opportunities, this
program will facilitate profitable relationships
between our members and academic institutions,
acting as a 'talent conduit' for bringing
students and businesses together so that all
might benefit. Our desire is to strengthen and
revision our futures, so that our industry can
continue to grow and prosper in a global
marketplace. CABA is charged with
promoting the service and longevity of the
Colorado aviation industry on behalf of both the
business operators of the Centennial Airport and
the Rocky Mountain Metropolitan Airport. It is
the mission of our working group to provide
'opportunity' networks between aviation centered
disciplines and members' business developmental
needs. Our members employ atmospheric
scientists, engineers, cartographers, GIS
specialists, finance/accounting specialists,
legal experts, pilots, mechanics, FAA certified
dispatchers, human resource/psychologists,
mathematicians/statisticians,
logistics/operations management specialists,
sales and marketing experts and many more.
Because of our broad and diverse membership,
many potential academic and professional
synergies exist, both at the undergraduate and
graduate levels.
Representing many of the most
important business organizations in aviation,
CABA is well positioned to function as the
'central terminal' for connecting all
stakeholders. To date, there exists no single
place where business needs on behalf of Colorado
aviation companies large and small, can be
communicated and managed for multiple interests.
Instead, individual businesses typically
communicate their specific needs to cooperative
education offices, which then have the sole
responsibility of matching students with those
needs. This practice can become cumbersome
for academic institutions. It also has the
unintended effect of marginalizing smaller
businesses who may offer significant
opportunities and financial reward for students
but who do not have the knowledge or resources
for cultivating these relationships with
academic institutions. CABA gives these
businesses more visibility, simultaneously
increasing the number and quality of
opportunities for students. Not only does this
program benefit our membership and the
university/college students in our state, it
also streamlines the cooperative
education/research site process and has the
economic potential to provide, enhance and
protect future employment opportunities.
Having spoke with many
members and students, and having done
independent research during the course of this
envisioning process, it became clear that the
current structure (or lack thereof) of
mentorship in our regional aviation community,
and the business aviation industry at large, is
probably costing us dearly. Younger generations
are either avoiding the profession altogether
due to current economics, or they have found
little avenue for their innovative ideas and
talents, while other industries have embraced
them. Dr. Annika Hylmo (2009) of Insight
Generation, a generational research organization
states that Science, Technology, Engineering and
Mathematics degrees (STEM) earned by U.S.
Citizens embarking upon an aviation career has
dropped dramatically over a 20 year period,
likely as a result of many economic and
work-life declines. Of the four
distinct generational groups identified, only
two, the Traditionalists and the Baby Boomers
witnessed industrial growth and wage advancement
considering inflation. Generation X and the
Millennials have witnessed their parents endure
substantial corporate downsizing, displacement
from achieving advanced positions due to prior
generational longevity in those jobs, and
stagnant if not negative wage growth. Not
surprisingly, the Millennials have developed a
value system that puts greater emphasis upon
work-life balance and schedule flexibility. This
is often at odds with the realities of most
aerospace/aviation employers. They are also
shrewd in their demand for wage and professional
advancement opportunities, and are far less
likely to remain loyal to an employer. This is
thought by experts to be the result of observing
their parent's diminishing professional 'buying'
power in these fields. While some argue that
perhaps these youth are less willing to invest
in a professional future that has a large
financial barrier to entry, data shows and
research suggests that this is not true, in that
both Generation X and the Millennials are
entering the marketplace with greater interest
in technological innovation and
entrepreneurship. Clay Collins, the author of
the Productivity Manifesto lists a number of
distinct 'properties' that an organization may
need to embrace in order to take advantage of
the innovative minds of youth today:
- An organization must embrace modern tools
and technologies
- An organization must value a balance between
work and life, and encourage remote electronic
commuting when possible
- An organization must understand that
professional advancement and fulfillment equate
to loyalty, and not job security. Stagnation or
indifference to innovation equates to talent
loss. (Millennials are more willing to face
unemployment in their field than endure
difficult conditions-they are far more likely to
leave a job for other opportunities)
- An organization must embrace the knowledge
and creativity of its employees. It must also
value cross-functional
teaming.
Given this research,
the CABA Educational Outreach Committee proposes
a plan to address these industry needs and our
specific members' demands. It is important to
remember that this plan is a work in progress.
We need active participation from all members'
and their ideas if we are to succeed in making
this a model program. I greatly encourage you to
consider the profound benefits to your
organization with a mentorship program like
this. Many of you can attest to the fact that
some of your most productive and profitable
employees today were at one time involved in a
university cooperative education program. But we
also aim to take this several steps further,
much further in fact. Please click on the
link below to view the first proposal of our
strategic plan for 2009/2010. We have also
constructed a letter of introduction that will
be sent to a number of key academic institutions
and departments after we receive and incorporate
feedback from you regarding this initial
envisioning. Thank you for your
kind participation in advance. I believe this is
one more foundational step that CABA will take
that solidifies not only the future of our
organization, but the futures of those that will
someday run it. All
Best Donovan DeVasher CABA
Educational Outreach Chairman Board Member,
CABA | |
Rocky Mountain
Metropolitan Report
By Mike
Turner |
Introduction from
www.4safepassage.com : "Do we possess
the courage and the vision to seed greatness in
tomorrow's fields of Aviation? Change requires
energy. That energy can only be found through
capturing simple waves of motion and amplifying
those waves through time. Safety Management
Systems are such a wave. Safe Passage is such a
seed. The synergy of these is our conduit. Can we
direct the force of Safe Passage Safety Management
Systems to promote safe and successful trips for
our clients? Can we harness the combined potential
of business aviation and executive services and
provide our clients with a tool that wields the
power of success? This is the dream of Safe
Passage Safety Management
Systems." We have a different kind of
energy crisis. Throughout history, the most
critical energy crisis has been human energy.
Finding inspiration, influence, will-power...just
the strength to get out of bed some days; how do
we find the energy to make things happen? The most
tragic waste of energy is regret. "I could
have...I would have...I should have..." Think of
the power that lies beneath those words and yet
its too late to benefit from it. Today we're
looking straight into the face of 9-11-01...again.
Its been eight years since that horrific day
happened. What have we done to take
responsibility for the security of our operations?
Where will we find the "energy" to really make a
difference? Let me ask a seemingly
different question. What have we done to make
business aviation a more valuable service to our
clients and a more compelling career for our
industry? What if we could use the
"energy" of both of these questions to forge a
mutual solution? The Rocky Mountain
Metro Airport CABA group will be meeting next week
to discuss the first of four steps in the Safe
Passage program...Safe Passage Day. In the coming
months we hope to conduct Safe Passage Day events
at both Metro and Centennial Airports. These
events will enable our combined community:
aircraft operators, FBOs, airport operations
staff, first responders (fire, rescue and law
enforcement), medical and security providers to
work cooperatively to prevent and to respond to
emergency and security events. The
natural flow of events will progress from Safe
Passage Day through the other steps of the program
which include: Observer, Community Training and
Diversified Crews. Safe Passage welcomes you to
visit our website, www.4safepassage.com, and to
join us in each level of the program that you're
capable of. Let's start with strong participation
in the coming Safe Passage Day events. I look
forward to working with you to forge a great
future in business
aviation. Sincerely, Mike
Turner RMMA
CABA |
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CABA Mission
Statement |
"To
foster and promote aviation and related business
at and near Centennial Airport; to collectively
address and respond to issues impacting Centennial
Airport, including safety and operational
effectiveness; to educate the general public about
all aviation activities at the airport, and to
preserve the airport and related businesses as
valuable economic assets to the community at
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CABA Board of
Trustees |
Iver
Retrum (Chairman)
Dave Purvis (Vice
Chairman)
Brittany Davies (Treasurer)
Larry
Ulrich (Secretary)
Donovan DeVasher
John Furstenberg Craig
Johnston Michael
Turner Michael
McCready Gene
Langfeldt Craig Teasdale
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