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The FAA is proposing to fix a technicality in the Federal Aviation Regulations that prevents pilots flying under BasicMed from operating, in most cases, as safety pilots under simulated instrument conditions. The fix is included in a recently released notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) that requires commercial balloon pilots to hold second-class medicals, to fulfill a Congressional mandate implemented after a high-profile accident several years ago. When the FAA created BasicMed in 2017, it directly copied the law passed by Congress that required the agency to do so. After a somewhat disappointing revelation of UFO activity in the summer of 2021,
Double Asteroid Redirection Test to Target Non-Threatening Dimorphos
NASA has begun its first test of anti-asteroid defensive measures, with an launch of the DART, or Double Asteroid Redirection Test. Designed to prevent the worst from coming to pass from extraplanetary bodies colliding with Earth, the system launched on November 24 aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 from Space Launch Complex 4 East at California’s Vandenberg Space Force Base. As a part of NASA’s future planetary defense strategy, the DART will impact a known, non-threatening asteroid to test its response. If successful, the asteroid’s motion will move in a measurable way as seen from earth, proving the concept sound before further investment. Proving functional defle
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