You get your ATC license the day you get qualified at a unit.

It carries a rider not unlike a pilots license which says what position you are qualified for, and the specific unit

So a trainee controller isn't a certificated controller either?

Denver has two parallal arrivals coming in from each corner. The paths are about 15-20 miles apart. I wonder if ATC was told to slow the arrivals so they gave the west heading and then the door was shut. If the published holding patterns for the more southernly arrival for the SE gate (QUAIL SIX) we...

I doubt even NATCA will be able to protect them for such a blatent breach of the law, (I assume in the USA it is illegal to operate an aeronautical radio without an appropriate radio license, not even mentioning issuing air traffic control instructions without the appropriate license) Obviously the...

23-year-old Skye Turner has been charged after reportedly flying from Montgomery Field, San Diego, with an expired student pilot certificate, in a stolen Cirrus SR22, and landing (after a side trip to Palm Springs) safely at LAX. The landing took place at about 3 a.m., Friday, on a second attempt. h...

Wow, and I thought I was doing good getting Air Lingus to pay for a pair of pants, white shirt, blue tie and some underwear and socks and cover some phone calls Dubai-Amsterdam when they lost my bag going to work. Put all that on the company card and seem to have lost the address to send them Air Li...

Wonder if the "Dutch NTSB" (won't even try to figure out how that would come out in Dutch) has the same requirements as the US? Taxiway TO/Landings become reportable next month.

Hitting the rope could cause damage to the Cirrus but I don't know why it would cause an inflight fire. And the whole idea of a weak link/having a limit on the strength of the rope is so the glider can't do damage to the tow plane. I've had the tail yanked around pretty hard but never enough to snap...

None of the above. Probably off a 200, they tend to do the SA trips out of MIA.

Word in the glider world is the Cirrus hit the Pawnee and not the tow rope, which makes a lot more sense. The rope or weak link should snap with a bit more more than 2000 pounds force applied.

I thought we had a LUX reporter.

http://avherald.com/h?article=42620150&opt=0

Serves them right for leaving a van on a CAT III runway.

Welcome to the party.

The Brits let you fly aerobatics without a parachute? He several times in the comments says he doesn't fit wearing a chute.

Or you can just spend 1.2 Billion and get convertible.

http://stadium.dallascowboys.com/assets ... tSheet.pdf

That's Mc Boeing Airbus DC9.

The tractor is missing the orange juice can over the exhaust. At least that's how I see all the ones up north.

I think the worst times I've had have been talking with ATC in Pakistan and India. Sometimes even the Indian pilots are asking ATC to "say again." Then there was the time crossing Chad and N'Djamena won't answer me. After we were about halfway across the country the other FO say he'd try. ...

The NTSB released their final report on Steve Fosset. A 400 fpm downdraft v. a 300 fpm rate of climb.

http://www.ntsb.gov/NTSB/brief.asp?ev_i ... 7184&key=1

Where's June Cleaver when you need her?

I've taken pictures from the same spot. If he headed 20 degrees right the waterway is about twice as long. But plowing you can't see where you're going in a Beaver.

The Bimbo truck is from Gruppo Bimbo who make most of the bread eaten in the US.

Now go make a widget, or sell a widget, or teach someone how to use a widget or whatever it is you'er going to do. At least you're being paid to be in aviation.

Laredo? They had 900 feet of overrun before. It must be there to keep you out of the Mexican breakfast place across the street.

If you land on 4R and they go all the way to the end you can see it as you cross the end of 4L. The idea is the blocks are sort of like a baked meringue stacked deeper and deeper. As the plane goes further into the EMAS, it's breaking more and more blocks and using up more and more energy. But the b...

I've got no idea why SAA would do it. But having run across 727s that still have nose gear brakes, that have switches to override the requirement to be on APU or external power to fuel, even one with Rolls Royce engines, I've learned when you've seen one 727, well, you've seen one 727.

I never had the chance to talk to Don but I figured from his postings he was from Flying Tigers so in a small way we had shared something in the past. His postings on Air Disaster were always insightful. He will be missed by people from all over the world.

Robert Grimm
Fort Worth, Texas

I was going to say that I didn't think the seals on the gear doors were airtight. Then I saw the thread drift and started looking in the maintenance manual for a drawing of the gear door safety lever to post. Didn't find a drawing of the lever but I did find where boeing says the seals are airtight....