Klyde: No Love For The TSA In 2006, Either!

Aero-Tips 01.09.06

IFR, you drone through the drizzle and fog near your destination. There are only two approaches into your destination airport, and either one requires you maneuver quite a way past the field before lining up on the final approach course. Do you have other options? Yes—you can ask for the contact approach and fly directly to the airport.

Aero-Linx!

Aviation videos proclaims itself the world's largest database of aviation videos! Search for videos by country, type airplane, even by most popular video. Enough to hold your attention for a while. Might want to put your earplugs in, some are a bit loud, almost like being there.

ACE Aerobatic Competency Evaluators are responsible for certifying approximately 90% of today’s aerobatic pilots. The remainder is certified through the EAA Warbird ACE program or Formation Flying, Inc. (FFI). Endorsements from more than one association are possible. So you’ll need an A.C.E. to be an “ace”.

"It was the ability to do the right thing even at the risk of their personal safety that guided these soldiers to do what they did. [They] set the standard for all soldiers to follow." Source: Army Maj. Gen. Michael Ackerman, in a 1998 ceremony honoring US Army pilot Hugh Thompson, Jr., Lawrence Colburn and Glenn Andreotta with the Soldier's Medal, the highest award for bravery not involving conflict with an enemy. The men were awarded the honor for their heroic efforts to stop the 1968 My Lai Massacre. Thompson -- who passed away last week -- landed their helicopter between attacking US soldiers and Vietnamese civilians, as Colburn and Andreotta trained their door guns on the troops to prevent further attack.