We could justifiably have billed this spring 2024 edition of EVA as the People & Passion Special. People feature strongly as the cornerstone of every article, while their passion for the aviation industry, and business aviation in particular, shines through.

Don Campion, co-founder of Florida’s Banyan Air Service, is about as passionate an aviation person as you could hope to find. His story begins with flying to school in bushplanes as a child in Africa, progresses through road trips between Toronto and Miami in a Honda Civic, and includes creating one of America’s busiest non-airline airports.

Gulfstream president Mark Burns will need no introduction to many readers. He received the Lifetime Aviation Industry Leader Award at the 21st Annual Living Legends of Aviation Awards ceremony in January. Afterwards, he reflected: “This recognition is very humbling for me, but I think it’s really a testament to the more than 20,000 Gulfstream employees who are some of the best in our industry.” Passion and humility make for a powerful combination in his case.

Over the previous 18 months or so we have explored aspects of crew training, from emergency evacuation, through medical emergency to maintenance. In this