Oh, I understand you don't know what they mean when they say he didn't file a flight plan. The information that goes in the boxes on that form is the ONLY information that the FAA will accept when you file a flight plan.
So I ask again how would have filing the information that can be accepted by the FAA for the type of flight he was flying have helped in the search?
Thanks. You ought to build one. That Zodiac I'm building has 24 Gals of fuel and burns ~5GPH while crusing at 130 mph. The translates to a VFR range of ~4 hours or about 3.5 hours IFR. That turns a trip I make at least once a year from El Dorado AR to New Orleans that takes 5 hours by car into flight of a little over 2 hours.
There were plenty of people that knew where he was going. The type of flight he was on really wouldn't have translated well to a flight plan.
You wouldn't be invited.
Flight plans are neither required for VFR operations. The VAST majority of VFR flight aren't flown with a flight plan filed. If he didn't have an ELT the aircraft was in violation of the regulations.
Well you oght to read more. Start with this.
AVIATION SAFETY REPORTING SYSTEM
Section 91.25 of the Federal Aviation Regulations (14 CFR 91.25)
prohibits reports filed with NASA from being used for FAA enforcement
purposes. This report will not be made available to the FAA for civil
penalty or certificate actions for violations of the Federal Air Regulations.
Your identity strip, stamped by NASA, is proof that you have submitted
a report to the Aviation Safety Reporting System. We can only return the
strip to you, however, if you have provided a mailing address. Equally
important, we can often obtain additional useful information if our safety
analysts can talk with you directly by telephone. For this reason, we have
requested telephone numbers where we may reach you.
and here is the form. http://asrs.arc.nasa.gov/forms/PDF_Files/general.p df
This has been interpreted to mean that it's functionally illegal to fly small airplanes over large cities, since you can't fly high enough to glide to a safe, legal landing.
Interpreted by who? You have a cite for that statement?
You might want to check ou the new Light Sport Pilot Certificate and the aircraft that are available under the S-LSA rules. http://www.sportpilot.org/
20 hours of training is all that is required.
None of his flying cars have ever done anything more than hover in place while tethered. He is accepted a con man by the entire aviation community. Even the BBC story was modified after its' original posting to include the SEC issues.
What happens is that every few years he finds a reporter that doesn't know about the hundreds of other reporters that have already been taken in by the guy.
The point is that there hasn't been a video technology that has been both successful and NOT the chosen format of porn. If Tivo added easily accessed porn they'd probably have 50% market penetration in 2 years.
Actually woefully few of them are. The VAST majority of CIA employees aren't what anyone would call spies. And even those that are aren't. CIA employees who gather intelligence are "Officers", those foreign nationals they recruit are "Agents."
It's the guys that spy on us that are spies in the CIA vernacular.
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Oh, I understand you don't know what they mean when they say he didn't file a flight plan. The information that goes in the boxes on that form is the ONLY information that the FAA will accept when you file a flight plan. So I ask again how would have filing the information that can be accepted by the FAA for the type of flight he was flying have helped in the search?
Here's a copy of the flight plan form. Explain to me how it would be completed that would help in the search.
http://forms.faa.gov/forms/faa7233-1.pdf
Thanks. You ought to build one. That Zodiac I'm building has 24 Gals of fuel and burns ~5GPH while crusing at 130 mph. The translates to a VFR range of ~4 hours or about 3.5 hours IFR. That turns a trip I make at least once a year from El Dorado AR to New Orleans that takes 5 hours by car into flight of a little over 2 hours.
There were plenty of people that knew where he was going. The type of flight he was on really wouldn't have translated well to a flight plan. You wouldn't be invited.
While it does help in the search after an accident a flight plan does NOTHING to increase the safety of the flight.
I have to ask. When you drive to work in the morning do you leave a listing of the route you are planning to take?
Flight plans are neither required for VFR operations. The VAST majority of VFR flight aren't flown with a flight plan filed. If he didn't have an ELT the aircraft was in violation of the regulations.
All this crap about it being slow. The plane he was in crusises about 125 mph. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citabria
That's around twice as fast as going in a car and 10,000 times more fun.
The airplane he was flying has one as well.
jd writes "Steve Fossett, the first person to fly a plane around the world without refueling,"
No he wasn't. That was Dick Rutan in Voyager. Fossett did it later in a jet aircraft.
It's simple you just need a Hulk.
Yes and no. It was about an anti missle laser but not in the silos. It's time for a re-read.
Well you oght to read more. Start with this. AVIATION SAFETY REPORTING SYSTEM Section 91.25 of the Federal Aviation Regulations (14 CFR 91.25) prohibits reports filed with NASA from being used for FAA enforcement purposes. This report will not be made available to the FAA for civil penalty or certificate actions for violations of the Federal Air Regulations. Your identity strip, stamped by NASA, is proof that you have submitted a report to the Aviation Safety Reporting System. We can only return the strip to you, however, if you have provided a mailing address. Equally important, we can often obtain additional useful information if our safety analysts can talk with you directly by telephone. For this reason, we have requested telephone numbers where we may reach you. and here is the form. http://asrs.arc.nasa.gov/forms/PDF_Files/general.p df
Well it is happening as we write for many people. I know three that passed the SP check ride in less than 25 hours.
Interpreted by who? You have a cite for that statement?
You might want to check ou the new Light Sport Pilot Certificate and the aircraft that are available under the S-LSA rules. http://www.sportpilot.org/ 20 hours of training is all that is required.
None of his flying cars have ever done anything more than hover in place while tethered. He is accepted a con man by the entire aviation community. Even the BBC story was modified after its' original posting to include the SEC issues. What happens is that every few years he finds a reporter that doesn't know about the hundreds of other reporters that have already been taken in by the guy.
Thank God, we will finally be able to track the Romulans when they are cloaked.
The point is that there hasn't been a video technology that has been both successful and NOT the chosen format of porn. If Tivo added easily accessed porn they'd probably have 50% market penetration in 2 years.
Then there you proably have your winner.
This brings up a good point. What format is HD porn available on now? My bet is that that format wins in the end.
Yes, they learned enough to duplicate with the PS3.
I was told all in elementery school that that would be the case by 1976.
Actually woefully few of them are. The VAST majority of CIA employees aren't what anyone would call spies. And even those that are aren't. CIA employees who gather intelligence are "Officers", those foreign nationals they recruit are "Agents."
It's the guys that spy on us that are spies in the CIA vernacular.
Which kind of proves the headline of the story wrong, doesn't it.
An honest to God Geekgasm.
BTW. Google Spellcheck knows the word Geekgasm.