Beever Joins Embraer Executive Jets to Head Interior Design

Melbourne, Fl, July 5, 2012 – Embraer Executive Jets named Jay Beever as Vice President Interior Design adding to the Company’s growing team of engineers and designers at its headquarters in Melbourne, FL.

“The addition of Jay Beever to our already excellent design staff is a further indication of our commitment to developing unique aircraft interiors that best serve the needs of our customers,” said Marco Túlio Pellegrini, COO and Senior Vice President Operations, Embraer Executive Jets. “It comes as we are opening a new design studio for the Legacy 650 and Lineage 1000 at our Melbourne Customer Center and introducing the 2012 Edition of the Legacy 650 with its new, refined interior. Jay’s long experience in interior design and engineering in the aerospace and automobile industries will complement this work and take Embraer Executive Jet interiors to the next step.”

Beever is well known in the business aviation and automotive industries for his interior work for high-end, luxury products at Gulfstream Aerospace and Ford Motor Company. Beever’s work as interior design manager in the New Product Development Department at Gulfstream included interiors for the Gulfstream 650, the G450 and G550 as well as overseeing the design and construction of a new design studio for the company. He also developed several design enhancements for automobiles at Ford

NTSB Alert on NEXRAD

The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has issued a safety alert warning pilots of potentially misleading age indications of NEXRAD weather radar images displayed in the cockpit. Misinterpreting or ignoring the significance of the time stamp has led to fatal accidents.

The cockpit display of NEXRAD mosaic radar images is created by weather service providers using data collected from various NEXRAD ground sites. The age indicator associated with the cockpit display does not show the age of the actual weather conditions as detected by the NEXRAD sites, but instead shows the age of the mosaic image created by the service provider.

Weather conditions depicted on the mosaic image will always be older than the age indicated on the display. The NTSB warns that in some extreme situations, the actual age of the displayed radar mosaic could reach 15 to 20 minutes, and severe weather can move and change dramatically in that period. A good rule of thumb is to add 10 minutes to the time stamp on the NEXRAD image displayed in the cockpit, and assume that is the age of the actual radar returns. 

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