by Jeff Price | Jun 13, 2022 | Aviation Career, Pilot Training
You may or may not know that I am also a pilot. I began flying while still in college as I pursued my degree in Professional Pilot. So when a reporter contacted me for a story to ask a question about something she overheard while boarding a plane, I was happy to...
by Jeff Price | Mar 30, 2022 | 50 Books in 50 Weeks, Aviation Career, Basic Success Principles, Life & Career Success
Do you think it was a good thing that Captain Chesley Sullenberger had a flight plan on that day he landed US Airways Flight 1549 on the Hudson River? Obviously, the flight plan did not call for an encounter with a flock of geese, nor a water landing but the...
by Jeff Price | Dec 9, 2020 | Aviation Career, Commercial Aviation Airport Security, Current Affairs
A message from Jeffrey Price, professor MSU Denver and owner of Leading Edge Strategies, an aviation security and airport management training and consulting firm, shares a special message of hope to the 2020 graduating class of aviation and aerospace science. To the...
by Jeff Price | Sep 11, 2019 | Aviation Career
As we approach the 18th anniversary of the terrorist attacks on September 11th, many of us forget that there is an entire generation out there to which 9/11 is merely a historical event, much like Pearl Harbor was to our generation of boomers and genx’rs. My daughter,...
by Jeff Price | Mar 22, 2016 | Aviation Career
“The worst vice is advice,” Al Pacino in the movie, The Devil’s Advocate. For years, there was a rumor circulating around the United Airlines hiring process that pilot applicants, (if they were from out of town and staying in the designated hotel) could never be seen...
by Jeff Price | Jan 15, 2016 | 50 Books in 50 Weeks, Aviation Career, Basic Success Principles, Employment and Achievement, Life & Career Success
“Aren’t there some jobs where it doesn’t matter if you’re there or not?” This was a question posed by a student the other day. It came during a discussion when I was encouraging my students to make a difference at every job they are at. My answer: yes, in fact every...
