Aero Linx: Youth Aviation Adventure Program (YAA) In 1997, Steve Wathen and Dan Kiser founded the Youth Aviation Adventure Program (YAA) in Columbus, Ohio as a way to help Steve’s son and other scouts from their troop earn their Boy Scout Aviation Merit Badges. The two men enjoyed sharing their love of aviation with the boys so much they began recruiting scouts from other nearby troops and offering their Aviation Merit Badge program twice a year. As the program became more popular, Dan and Steve enlisted other pilots and aviation enthusiasts as volunteers to expand and upgrade the content of the program, and it has since expanded to include Girl Scouts, youth from other organizations, and anyon

Precision Runway Monitor (PRM) Provides air traffic controllers monitoring the NTZ during simultaneous close parallel approaches with high precision secondary surveillance data. A PRM is required for simultaneous independent operations when runway centerlines, or in the case of SOIA, final approach courses, are separated by less than 3,600 feet. High resolution color monitoring display (FMA) present (NTZ) surveillance track data to controllers along with detailed maps depicting approaches and no transgression zone.

"Our agency's accomplishments in 2018 are breathtaking. We've inspired the world and created incredible new capabilities for our nation. This year, we landed on Mars for the seventh time, and America remains the only country to have landed on Mars successfully. We created new U.S. commercial partnerships to land back on the Moon. We made breakthroughs in our quest to send humans farther into space than ever before. And, we contributed to remarkable advancements in aviation. I want to thank the entire NASA team for a fantastic year of American leadership in space, and I am confident we will build on our 2018 successes in 2019. Source: NASA's new administrator, Jim Bridenstine, speaking along with deputy administrator Jim Morhard, and c