Pilot logbooks serve a number of purposes. On the most basic
level, they record information that proves our legal ability to
fly. For some a logbook represents a challenge, to log a target
number of flying hours or to fly a certain number of airplane
types. There are even financial incentives to logging flight
time.
Enhanced Flight Visibility -- the average forward
horizontal distance, from the cockpit of an aircraft in flight, at
which prominent topographical objects may be clearly distinguished
and identified by day or night by a pilot using an enhanced flight
vision system.
"We've been turned down on the COTS thing. Talked with the guy
a little bit, mentioned the engine tests we've got going on over at
Stennis, and that we'd sure like to get involved with them one way
or another, even if it's later on. And he indicated that's a
possibility."
Source: Advent Launch Services president Jim
Akkerman, upon hearing the news his company was rejected by
NASA in the first round of competition for the Commercial
Orbital Transportation Services program.
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