Monday, September 29, 2014

Fwd: [NR0356999] Real World Weather - FAASafety.gov




FAA Safety Team | Safer Skies Through Education

You have asked us to notify you when a seminar is scheduled that meets your criteria. The following seminar may be of interest to you:

"Real World Weather"
Topic: Real World Weather
On Monday, October 13, 2014 at 19:00
Location:
Marriott Huntsville
5 Tranquility Base

Huntsville, AL 35805

Select Number:
NR0356999

Description:

Weather is the single biggest variable in flying. It can turn a long-awaited vacation into a long wait at the FBO, a quick two-hour flight into a tedious four-hour slog, or a stress-free jaunt into a skill-testing ordeal. The variations are infinite, but for pilots it all boils down to two questions:


What's really going on out there, and what does it mean for me?

The day-to-day challenge of answering those questions is the focus of our new seminar. We'll take a no-nonsense look at how you can get better, more complete weather information—and make better, more informed decisions as a result. 

To view further details and registration information for this seminar, click here.

The sponsor for this seminar is: South Carolina Aviation Safety Council

The FAA Safety Team (FAASTeam) is committed to providing equal access to this meeting/event for all participants. If you need alternative formats or services because of a disability, please communicate your request as soon as possible with the person in the 'Contact Information' area of the meeting/event notice. Note that two weeks is usually required to arrange services.

The following credit(s) are available for the WINGS/AMT Programs:

Basic Knowledge 3 - 1 Credit






Sunday, September 28, 2014

HFI Scholarship Program Accepting Applications [feedly]

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HFI Scholarship Program Accepting Applications
// Aero-News Network

Offers 19 Scholarships Each Year To Support Vertical Aviation Industry HFI has long recognized the need for qualified commercial helicopter pilots and helicopter maintenance technicians — the current shortage is very real and many of our experienced pilots and maintenance technicians are nearing retirement age. HFI annually offers up to 19 scholarships to help support students studying to become part of tomorrow's vertical aviation industry.
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Wednesday, September 24, 2014

VOR navigation simulator and IFR procedure trainer - VOR Tracker App

Fwd: You are invited to participate in THURSDAY NIGHT LIVE



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Please join us tonight at 7:00 PM ET.

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Thursday Night Live is both entertaining and educational and a must for pilots of all experience levels.
When
THURSDAY
September 25, 2014 
From 7pm to 8pm ET

Where
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Friday, September 19, 2014

Fwd: Fw: AMERICAN AIRLINES' PILOT SPEAKS HIS MIND


Subject: Fwd: Fw: Fwd: AMERICAN AIRLINES' PILOT SPEAKS HIS MIND


 

 
 
 
 
AMERICAN AIRLINES' PILOT SPEAKS HIS MIND

 

 
No name calling, no hatred, no political agenda.

 
CANADIAN COMMENT APPEARS AT THE END OF THE ARTICLE AND IS MEANINGFUL.

 
THERE IS ALSO SOME RECENTLY ADDED BRITISH COMMENT.

 
This pilot hit the nail right on the head in his open letter.

 
A newspaper stated that some Muslim doctor is saying we are profiling him because he has been checked three times while getting on an airplane.

 
The following is a letter from a pilot.  This well-spoken man, who is a pilot with American Airlines, says what is in his heart, beautifully.

 

 
YOU WORRY ME!

 
By Captain John Maniscalco, American Airlines Pilot

 
I've been trying to say this since 911, but you worry me.  I wish you didn't.  I wish when I walked down the streets of this country that I love, that your color and culture still blended with the beautiful human landscape we enjoy in this country.  But you don't blend in anymore.  I notice you, and it worries me.

 
I notice you because I can't help it anymore.  People from your homelands, professing to be Muslims, have been attacking and killing my fellow citizens and our friends for more than 20 years now.  I don't fully understand their grievances and hate, but I know that nothing can justify the inhumanity of their attacks.

 
On September 11, ARAB-MUSLIMS hijacked four jetliners in my country.  They cut the throats of women in front of children and brutally stabbed to death others.  They took control of those planes and crashed them into buildings, killing thousands of proud fathers, loving sons, wise grandparents, elegant daughters, best friends, favorite coaches, fearless public servants, and children's mothers.

 
The Palestinians celebrated, the Iraqis were overjoyed as was most of the Arab world.  So, I notice you now.  I don't want to be worried. I don't want to be consumed by the same rage, hate and prejudice that has destroyed the soul of these terrorists.  But I need your help.  As a rational American, trying to protect my country and family in an irrational and unsafe world, I must know how to tell the difference between you, and the Arab/Muslim terrorist.

 
How do I differentiate between the true Arab/Muslim Americans and the Arab/Muslim terrorists in our communities who are attending our schools, enjoying our parks, and living in OUR communities under the protection of OUR constitution, while they plot the next attack that will slaughter MORE of the same good neighbors and children?

 
The events of September 11 changed the answer... It is not MY responsibility to determine which of you embraces our great country, with ALL of its religions, with ALL of its different citizens, with all of its faults.  It is time for every Arab/Muslim in this country to determine it for me.

 
I want to know, I DEMAND to know and I have a right to know, whether or not you love America ..... Do you pledge allegiance to its flag?  Do you proudly display it in front of your house, or on your car?  Do you pray in your many daily prayers that Allah will bless this nation; that He will protect it and let it prosper?  Or do you pray that Allah with destroy it in one of your Jihads?  Are you thankful for the freedom that this nation affords?  A freedom that was paid for by the blood of hundreds of thousands of patriots who gave their lives for this country?  Are you willing to preserve this freedom by also paying the ultimate sacrifice?  Do you love America??  If this is your commitment, then I need YOU to start letting ME know about it

 
Your Muslim leaders in this nation should be flooding the media at this time with hard facts on your faith, and what hard actions YOU are taking as a community and as a religion to protect the United States of America.  Please, no more benign overtures of regret for the death of the innocent, because I worry about who you regard as innocent.... No more benign overtures of condemnation for the unprovoked attacks, because I worry about what is unprovoked to you.  I am not interested in any more sympathy; I am interested only in action.  What will you do for America - our great country - at this time of crisis, at this time of war?

 
I want to see Arab-Muslims waving the AMERICAN flag in the streets.  I want to hear you chanting 'Allah Bless America'.  I want to see young Arab/Muslim men enlisting in the military.  I want to see a commitment of money, time and emotion to the victims of this butchering and to this nation as a whole.

 
The FBI has a list of over 400 people they want to talk to regarding the WTC attack.  Many of these people live and socialize right now in Muslim communities.  You know them.  You know where they are.  Hand them over to us, NOW!  But I have seen little even approaching this sort of action.  Instead I have seen an already closed and secretive community close even tighter.  You have disappeared from the streets.  You have posted armed security guards at your facilities.  You have threatened lawsuits.  You have screamed for protection from reprisals.

 
The very few Arab/Muslim representatives that HAVE appeared in the media were defensive and equivocating.  They seemed more concerned with making sure that the United States proves who was responsible before taking action.  They seemed more concerned with protecting their fellow Muslims from violence directed towards them in the United States and abroad than they did with supporting our country and denouncing 'leaders' like Khadafi, Hussein, Farrakhan, and Arafat.

 
IF the true teachings of Islam proclaim tolerance and peace and love for all people, then I want chapter and verse from the Koran and statements from popular Muslim leaders to back it up.  What good is it if the teachings in the Koran are good, pure, and true, when your 'leaders' ARE teaching fanatical interpretations, terrorism, and intolerance?  It matters little how good Islam SHOULD BE if huge numbers of the world's Muslims interpret the teachings of Mohammed incorrectly and adhere to a degenerative form of the religion.  A form that has been demonstrated to us over and over again.  A form whose structure is built upon a foundation of violence, death, and suicide.  A form whose members are recruited from the prisons around the world.  A form whose members (some as young as five years old) are seen day after day, week in and week out, year after year, marching in the streets around the world, burning effigies of our presidents, burning the American flag, shooting weapons into the air.  A form whose members convert from a peaceful religion, only to take up arms against the great United States of America, the country of their birth.  A form whose rules are so twisted, that their traveling members refuse to show their faces at airport security checkpoints, in the name of Islam.

 
We will NEVER allow the attacks of September 11, or any others for that matter, to take away that which is so precious to us -- our rights under the greatest constitution in the world.  I want to know where every Arab Muslim in this country stands and I think it is my right and the right of every true citizen of this country to DEMAND it.  A right paid for by the blood of thousands of my brothers and sisters who died protecting the very constitution that is protecting you and your family.

 
I am pleading with you to let me know.  I want you here as my brother, my neighbor, my friend, as a fellow American...... But there can be no gray areas or ambivalence regarding your allegiance, and it is up to YOU, to show ME, where YOU stand.  Until then,

 
"YOU WORRY ME!"

 

 
CANADIAN COMMENTS:

 
I totally agree with this sentiment.  I hope you will forget all about the 'political correctness' mandate we've had rammed down our throats, and see if this doesn't ring true in your heart and mind.  For Canada, with all the multiculturalism we've been told is so important .... why should we not, as Canadians, expect that the millions of new people immigrating to our country will show their love for our country, their allegiance to our country, their willingness to obey the laws of our country, and acceptance that we are a Christian country?  Just because they are able to enjoy exercising their own religion, they should NOT expect us to be ashamed of ours.  They knew Canada was a Christian country when they came here.  Why are we erasing Christianity because immigrants who are unwilling to adopt our way of life expect us to?  There is just too much insanity in the world, and we have to start taking a stand.  I hope you will forward this, so that others will feel they are not alone if they are starting to feel the same.

 

 
BRITISH COMMENTS:

 
At last a clear non-racist example of the concerns that the vast majority of our Nations population probably share.  The pilot's letter encapsulates all that is fair and just about national pride and protection of one's national culture.  I fear it may be too late here in UK, BUT we too want our country back in the form that attracted all these different cultures to come here in the first place!!  In all our conversations with a wide range of friends and acquaintances we have not met one that disagrees with our own views.  If only we all had the courage of our convictions to pass this on, it is a statement that should be accepted as the heart-felt feelings of someone with honest commendable national pride.

 
Australian Comment:

 
Best email I have had in years it needs to be in every paper every day until we get some answers

 
THIS IS TOO GOOD TO JUST READ AND DELETE

 
LET'S SATURATE NEW ZEALAND, AUSTRALIA, UK, EUROPE, USA, and CANADA, AND THE REST OF THE FREE WORLD WITH THIS ONE!
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 








 

A flight emergency landing can't be more chilled out than this

Thursday, September 18, 2014

Today, I saw a plane crash into the Pacific Ocean... - YouTube

Fwd: "Do you know an exceptional CFI, A&P, Avionics Tech, or FAASTeam Rep?" - FAASafety.gov

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FAA Safety Team | Safer Skies Through Education

Do you know an exceptional CFI, A&P, Avionics Tech, or FAASTeam Rep?
Notice Number: NOTC5570


If you know a very special flight instructor, FAASTeam rep, mechanic, or avionics tech, this is your chance to reward that aviation professional with the recognition he or she so richly deserves. And if you ARE such an exeptional aviation professional, this is your chance to be recognized for the great work you do.
 
"The best aviation professionals don't necessarily consider themselves as 'award winners,' says Arlynn McMahon, Chairman of the General Aviation Awards Committee. "Most would never apply for these prestigious awards on their own." Arlynn explains that these exceptional people are mostly just hard-working professionals trying to make aviation the safest it can be.

"In 2009, when a FAASTeam rep nominated me for the CFI-of-the-year award, I felt surprised as well as honored and humbled," McMahon continued. "I didn't even know about the GA Awards program, and my first reaction was 'who, me?'"

Each year for the past 50 years, the General Aviation Awards Program and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) have recognized aviation professionals for their contributions to general aviation in the fields of flight instruction, aviation maintenance, avionics, and safety. The Program accepts application packets in four categories: CFI, A&P, Avionics Tech, and FAASTeam Rep.

Application packets will be vetted for completeness, then submitted to each applicant's local FSDO for review. Each FSDO will select district winners in each of the four categories, then forward the winners' packets to the FAA Regional Offices where regional winners will be selected in each category. Finally, the regional winners' packets will be submitted to panels of distinguished industry judges in each category, who will select the four national winners for 2015.

At each stage of the competition, the district, regional and national winners will be publicized through a broad spectrum of print and electronic aviation media resources. The four national winners will receive an expenses-paid trip to EAA AirVenture in Oshkosh, where they will be recognized by the FAA Administrator and receive lots of prizes donated by our industry sponsors.

The nomination/application period for the 2015 GA Awards closes at the end of this month. An online nomination/application form may be found at http://www.generalaviationawards.org/ under the "Nominations" tab, along with details of the additional supporting documents required from applicants. The website provides a wealth of information about the General Aviation Awards program.

If you need additional information or help, contact Arlynn via email at mailto:info@generalaviationawards.org or call her at 859-983-2709. Arlynn McMahon and her husband Charlie have operated Aero-Tech, Inc., a flight school in Lexington, Kentucky, since 1971. She was honored as 2009 National Flight Instructor of the Year.

PLEASE DON'T DELAY! Help recognize "the best of the best" by nominating that truly exceptional CFI, A&P, Avionics Tech, or FAASTeam rep for one of these prestigious awards (or applying for one yourself).








Saturday, September 6, 2014

Fwd: Special Message for CFI's and Career Seekers



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Good afternoon,

American Flyers is currently seeking Flight Instructors and Administrative Interns for its Santa Monica, California location. 

Full Time Flight Instructor Positions are available and Part Time positions will be considered.

We offer attractive compensation packages and a highly energetic work environment.

The American Flyers Intern program has been in continuous operation for fifteen years and is designed to help qualified individuals obtain their flight training while performing administrative duties.

Duration of the program is a minimum twenty-four months consisting of twelve months of administrative work and flight training, and twelve months of administrative work and flight instruction upon receipt of certificates and ratings. Learn More 

 

For more information and position details please contact:

Mike Forth

Please share this email with your fellow flight instructors.
  
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Santa Monica, CA
2501 Airport Avenue
Santa Monica, CA 90405