Klyde Gets On NASA's Case Again

Aero-Tips 01.13.06

Skies are cloudy but the bases are high and visibility good.  You call Flight Service for a preflight weather briefing and, during the specialist’s presentation, he interjects that “VFR flight is not recommended.”  Can you still file a VFR flight plan?  Does this put a stop to your trip?

Aero-Linx!

While this is a bit off the vector airways, this might come in handy if any readers might be planning to head to the bank for an aircraft loan. At www.annualcreditreport.com consumers are now able to check their credit reports by each of the three credit bureaus, free once per year. Make sure everything is correct and someone else isn’t trying to use your credit to buy something with or without wings.

ADIZ Air Defense Identification Zone Established to facilitate early aircraft identification of all aircraft in the vicinity of U.S.-International airspace boundaries.  All aircraft entering domestic U.S. airspace from points outside must provide for identification prior to entry. The ability to take over airspace at a given moment in the name of national security.  

"I just want to find out the truth and get to the bottom of this before it gets too late and they take all the papers and disappear with [them] and the family wouldn’t know what happened. It isn’t about the money. I just want to find justice and the truth about what’s [going] on." Source: Jeff Charlton, on his reasons for joining others who lost family members in the December 19th Chalk's Ocean Airlines seaplane downing in filing a lawsuit against the airline, as well their insurance company and, potentially, the airline's maintenance workers and the manufacturers of replacement components for the Grumman G-73T Turbo Mallard. Charlton lost his mother in the accident.