Aero Linx: Australasian Society of Aerospace Medicine
The aims of ASAM are:
To cultivate and promote aerospace medicine and related sciences;
To provide an authoritative body of opinion on matters of aerospace medical significance; and
To increase the awareness of the aerospace industry, government, and the general public of the importance of aerospace medicine to flight safety.
The aims of ASAM are supported by the John Lane Aerospace Medicine Trust. The John Lane Aerospace Medicine Trust provides an opportunity for members and others to support ongoing research into aerospace medicine with tax deductible d
On-Course Indication
An indication on an instrument, which provides the pilot a visual means of determining that the aircraft is located on the centerline of a given navigational track, or an indication on a radar scope that an aircraft is on a given track.
“If you see a cloud with a shimmery pastel set of colors in it, that’s because the cloud particles are all nearly identical in size... That’s usually happening just after the clouds have formed and have all grown at the same rate... I always marvel at the colors that show up: reds and greens and blues and purples, it’s really cool to see something shining with lots of color on Mars.”
Source: Mark Lemmon, an atmospheric scientist with the Space Science Institute in Boulder, Colorado, chatting about recent observations made about Martian cloud cover.
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