From 2011 (YouTube Version): A Little More In-Depth Look At One Of The Bright Shining Lights In The GA World
Some months ago, we offered up a short but impressive look at a small organization that embodies the true spirit of today's aviators... the Veteran's Airlift Command. This time around, we get a little more in-depth and detailed about one of the true stars in the GA biz... folks who serve those who served us and present a positive and impressive aero-image f
Aero Linx: The International Fellowship of Flying Rotarians
The International Fellowship of Flying Rotarians are 1200 Rotarian pilots from six continents sharing Rotary’s commitment to fellowship and service. Fellowship activities include regional meeting of sections all over the world, culminating with a fly-in before and a fly-about after the annual worldwide Rotary Convention. Service missions include the many hundreds of Angel Flight sorties conducted by individual members in their aircraft, relief flights into Haiti and Mexico after natural disasters, and flight delivering medical and school supplies across international borders.
Decision Altitude (DA)
A specified altitude (mean sea level (MSL)) on an instrument approach procedure (ILS, GLS, vertically guided RNAV) at which the pilot must decide whether to continue the approach or initiate an immediate missed approach if the pilot does not see the required visual references.
“A gentleman from the Shirley Williams Airport in Kingsland, where he keeps his plane, was landing on Lake LBJ... It’s the kind of plane that lands on both water and land, and he forgot to retract the landing gear for a water landing... We didn't have to do a lot, We used some of our ropes to tie it off so it wouldn’t float off and be an obstacle out in the middle of the lake.”
Source: Comments made by Fire Chief Tim Campbell... in yet another incident in which yet another Icon A5 has flirted with Davy Jones Locker...
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