Also: Schumer Attacks, XCOR Soars, 300th Phenom, Aero-Innovation, ECi A.D., Aero-Gadgets... and Hoover To The Rescue!
The week was not nearly the downer that last week was (as the GAMA numbers showed how badly GA fared in 2011), and in fact, we discovered we still have friends! The week's big stories started with the announcement of the FAA's long awaited re-write of the regs covering minimum Airline pilot experience levels (and associated issues), and was made even more intriguing as the USAF broke months of silence and killed the LAS deal... as Hawker-Beech had hoped. And best of all, we have clear proof that GA has good friends in high places... and
Aero Linx: Air Navigation -- On
The Beam
The old-timer sat in the pilot's lounge with his coffee,
listening to the student pilots discussing their navigation
assignment. Like dolphins bounding to the water's surface, keywords
occasionally reached his ears: "Waypoints," "VORs," "GPS,"
"Radials" "OBS," "Compass locators," "DME," "Victor-Airways."
Back Taxi
A term used by air traffic controllers to taxi an aircraft on
the runway opposite to the traffic flow. The aircraft may be
instructed to back-taxi to the beginning of the runway or at some
point before reaching the runway end for the purpose of departure
or to exit the runway.
“(t)he March 2011 theft of an unencrypted NASA notebook computer resulted in the loss of algorithms used to command and control the International Space Station. Other lost or stolen notebooks contained Social Security numbers and sensitive data on NASA’s Constellation and Orion programs.”
Source: IG Paul K. Martin, as part of his written testimony presented to a House committee looking into NASA security (or lack thereof).
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