They also bring other leading experts in their field that explain in great detail (but in a way we can all understand) the science behind some of the human factors and physiological aspects of how your body interprets external influences that are being exerted on your body during flight. … Although the topics covered in these videos applies to ANY aircraft you will fly, it was a nice touch to include the use of the best general aviation has to offer today and gives a nice modern feel to the films.
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Fly Right Films: Flight training videos for the serious pilot
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CAP Pilots Listen up – Gridding Your Sectionals Is A Thing Of The Past!
I still see some guys flying around with charts that are 10 years old because they don’t want to grid a new one (granted they have current paper charts, but still…), all that is in the past! … The laminated surface works great with a dry-erase marker as well for adding notes and outlining your grid.
If you’re jumping up and down like I was to hear about this new product, you can get a full tour by heading over to: http://www.capcharts.com/tour The Sky Sectionals team has even provided a full video tour of the sectionals: -
Sky Sectionals Review
I should point out that these are NOT approved by the FAA as your sole means of information so you should be cross referencing them with the certified FAA charts, but these are an absolute must in the cockpit in my opinion. They make managing your workload as a pilot a heck of a lot easier when in VFR flight.
For those of us who fly Search and Rescue, cockpit management becomes even more critical as we need to know precisely what grid we are in and searching. -
Civil Air Patrol pilots to fly ‘Surrogate Predators’
Bill Ward, explaining that a sophisticated “Predator ball” placed under the left wing of a Cessna 182 belonging to CAP will give the plane the capability of mimicking the Air Force’s MQ-1 Predator and MQ-9 Reaper, unmanned aircraft that provide real-time data to U.S. warfighters. … “Due to the Air Force maximum surge effort to provide more MQ-1 Predator and MQ-9 Reaper support to ground units in CENTCOM, there are no Predator or Reaper forces available to support pre-deployment exercises such as Green Flag, which focuses on air-to-ground operations,” said Maj.
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Speed & Angels
For you aviation and Navy nuts out there, here’s a movie you won’t want to miss. For those of you living in San Francisco or visiting on August 17th, 2006 – you can get a sneak peek! Speed and Angels is the true life story and feature-length action documentary about two navy officers chasing their dreams to become fighter pilots. The film follows them during the most dangerous parts of their training and as they go to war, where the realities of being a fighter pilot test their limits. The film includes epic aerial footage in stunning HD—including the last ever F-14 Tomcat dogfights—and rare naval archival and wartime footage. Thanks to unprecedented access granted by the navy, Speed and Angels gives an inside look at people’s journeys as fighter pilots as it has never before been seen. Based on the original concept of producer F.A.Chierici, Speed and Angels is directed by Peyton Wilson…. What Navy airdale veteran wouldn’t want to add this to their collection?
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Southwest Airlines now Blogging…
Southwest has always been a leader in the field and their customer service is second to none. It’s no wonder that they are among the few (if not the only) airlines to actually turn a profit in these trying times. If there was one airline that I would have pegged as the first to have a blog, it would have been Southwest. They have officially been bitten by the blogging bug and are now blogging online at: www.blogsouthwest.com. A glimpse of what you can expect…”…we want this to be a place where you can see just who we are and why we are Nuts about Southwest.In order to do that, we have lined up an exciting group of bloggers that include Frontline and Headquarters Employees. Among the Frontline Employees lined up to blog are some of our Pilots; Flight Attendants; Airport Employees; Mechanics; folks from our Marketing, Schedule Planning, Properties, People and Leadership, and Executive Office Departments. We hope to add additional bloggers as we go, including some of our Officers, who will show up as guest bloggers.”Not too bad if you ask me. I’m adding this to my feeds…lets see if they can keep up with the pace of the blogsphere!
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We don’t need no stinkin’ lessons!
Ok, I have got to say, I am getting majorly addicted to YouTube. I have some buddies always sending me the strangest videos and this one is a winner. Now what kind of rocket scientist does it take to figure out that FLYING A HELICOPTER is NOT something you can just do without any lessons. Folks, for those of you that aren’t familiar with aviation, flying a helicopter is at least 10x more difficult than learning to fly a regular single engine Cessna for example. There is definitely such a thing as having so much money that it makes you stupid.
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Ballistics Recovery Parachute Saves Again
As much as I love flying other aircraft like Cessna’s, there’s nothing that could replace the peace of mind that your family / passengers safety is a yank of a handle away. I’ve been in some pretty scary IMC conditions, it can happen to anyone – so this is a much welcomed technology in the world of aviation. [ via Flightnest.com ] Ballistics Recovery Parachute Saves Again: Over the weekend Ballistics Recovery Systems announced their parachute system has recorded another save. Kerwin Day, a CFI found himself in severe icing conditions and unable to control his Cirrus SR22. With two other passengers onboard the aircraft stalled as he tried to climb above the area of icing. The parachute system was activated and the Cirrus came to rest in Alabama suspended by trees. “I pulled the chute and got a sudden jolt against the seatbelt, said Day. ”The nose pitched down and very quickly leveled itself and in less than a minute we were on the ground.“ Ballistic Recovery Systems says their parachutes have been documented in saving 184 lives.
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Why I own my Aircraft
Well I certainly don’t need this as an excuse for owning my own airplane, but it sure does give you warm and fuzzies and justify all that is right in the world, even if just for a few hours on the weekend… [ via Flightnest.com ] I couldn’t pass up the opportunity to pass this along. It is the story of a nine year old kid who told ATC “REBEL BASE, THIS IS RED 5. WE ARE STARTING OUR ATTACK RUN ON THE DEATH STAR”. And ATC responded with “RED 5, YOUR CLEARED FOR THE APPROACH TO THE DEATH STAR. REPORTS HITS AWAY”. This is a must read story.
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Farewell Our Beloved F-14 Tomcats
[ via Military.com ] Aging F-14 Makes Final Bombing Runs : The U.S. Navy’s F-14 Tomcat fighter, built as a Cold War defense against Soviet bombers and emblazoned on popular imagination as Tom Cruise’s plane in the 1986 movie Top Gun, is just weeks away from making its final combat sorties over Iraq before being retired for good. A pair of Navy squadrons with the last 22 operational Tomcats are still flying bombing and strafing runs on insurgent targets in Iraq, jetting off the deck of the U.S. aircraft carrier Theodore Roosevelt in the Persian Gulf…. Its final combat sorties are taking place in coming weeks, before the Roosevelt departs the Persian Gulf early next year, taking the last American F-14s to their retirement in the United States…. Tomcats didn’t see combat until six years later, in 1981, when a squadron flying near Libya’s Mediterranean coast shot down a pair of SU-22 Fitter fighters after one of the Libyan pilots fired a missile at the U.S. jets – and missed…. U.S. intelligence assessments say five or six of Iran’s early model Tomcats can probably still fly, but do so rarely, given the U.S. embargo on the Islamic Republic and the prodigious maintenance and parts the F-14s need, Howe said…. In the Gulf War in 1990, U.S. Tomcat pilots took on the Iraqi air force – losing one plane to an Iraqi missile and shooting down one helicopter – but the dogfights were over in three days, when the Iraqi air force was destroyed or fled…. The pair of squadrons on board the Roosevelt fly daily over Iraq, giving air cover to U.S. ground troops fighting guerrillas in Baghdad and north of the capital, Howe said…. One night last month, Howe said his pair of F-14s flew low over Baghdad’s airport to investigate reports of U.S. C-130 cargo planes taking rebel anti-aircraft fire.
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