November 16, 2001

Echo Flight weather system making smaller planes safer

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BOULDER ? Ask just about anyone in general aviation what caused most of the 1,835 accidents and 592 deaths in their industry in 2000 and the answer is immediate: bad weather. Ask the Federal Aviation Administration the same thing and you’ll get the same response. Since weather can’t be turned off, the prerogative now for the industry is to markedly improve weather data in the cockpit.

?People keep dying in small planes, but no new technology was being pulled in,? said Rob Kalberer, president of Echo Flight Inc., a Boulder-based company he founded seven years ago to provide better weather…

Christopher Wood
Christopher Wood is editor and publisher of BizWest, a regional business journal covering Boulder, Broomfield, Larimer and Weld counties. Wood co-founded the Northern Colorado Business Report in 1995 and served as publisher of the Boulder County Business Report until the two publications were merged to form BizWest in 2014. From 1990 to 1995, Wood served as reporter and managing editor of the Denver Business Journal. He is a Marine Corps veteran and a graduate of the University of Colorado Boulder. He has won numerous awards from the Colorado Press Association, Society of Professional Journalists and the Alliance of Area Business Publishers.
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