I'm not sure if this has been discussed before, but I have a question regarding my PUBNAT 8 application. I had almost forgotten about it, since it was submitted almost a year ago, and when I received the email for the GEO Pref, I logged into the site to update some of my personal information. The application tab says that it is closed, and any information that I update on the work history and personal information tabs is not reflecting a change on the application itself. When the panels meet, do they pull your most current information off the site, or do they just pull the application that was submitted from a while back. Sorry if this is confusing, but hopefully somebody on here understands what I'm trying to ask. Basically, I changed my address, and added a couple of references to the work history, but I'm not sure if it will show up on the application or not. Thanks.

President Obama's infrastructure investment plan could bring more funding for NextGen.

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Special Use Airspace (SUA) isn't special because Mr. Rogers said so. Instead, it's special because someone inside that airspace may be taking aim at you. Show your special grasp of SUA by acing this quiz.Take the quiz.

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Just wondering if anyone know what an MRU is?

Just got word that FW is Hiring. Anybody else here anything? If it is true, it is about time.

I am looking for any offcial FAA definition for positive seperation. I have looked in all the usual places and have done a search of this board. My area has had a rash of deals that the OM is attributing to a lack of P.S. An example he is using is a controller give two A/C on sperate transitions that will join the same arrival the same altitude to cross a fix. He has started to write people up in CEDAR to creat a paper trail that may lead to an ODAP. But, he is unable to provide a definition of what exactly P.S is. To all of us if you use radar seperation and no deal occurs then that is using P/S. Any thoughts. Sorry for the long post

There is nothing specific in the 7110 but what are your thoughts on a C17 departing. A C12 is holding short midfield for the back taxi. Do you have to wait 2 minutes before back taxiing the C12? Can you say wait 1 minute and send him, guessing that it will take him 1 minute to taxi to the end and be ready? C17 usually gets airborne at the intersection if that matters. 7110 says you can't TIPH for the 2 minutes but does that apply to taxiing down the rwy? Had a bit of a debate today about this. I think it is kind of a gray area, but say there is parallel runways, you could taxi an a/c across to the other rwy without waiting but can you back taxi an a/c right into the wake? I say wait the 2 minutes but others were saying that it doesn't say anything about it so 1 minute will suffice. Thoughts?

There are much better alternatives to emergency locator transmitters. In his post to the AVweb Insider blog, editor-in-chief Russ Niles focuses on one that's affordable, reliable and readily available: GPS. With better technology at hand, Russ wonder why ELTs are still the law. Read more and share your comments.

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One person was killed and at least three were badly injured Monday when a Piper PA32-RT-300 Lance made an emergency landing on a Henderson, Nev., city street after an apparent engine failure. Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Sgt. John Sheahan told local media that two men and two women were aboard the Lance, which had just departed Henderson's Executive Airport around 8 a.m. on Monday. Pilot Douglas Touchet, 45, of Erath, La., died. His wife and the two others, also from Louisiana, were hurt. The group was apparently heading home after a long weekend in Las Vegas. Henderson is just south of Las Vegas. Police said no one on the ground was injured, perhaps because the pilot pointed the airplane away from houses. "I think we can attribute that to the pilot trying to put it down in a safe place," he said. "You're talking the plane crashed maybe 20 or 30 feet (from the nearest home)," Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Sgt. John Sheahan said.

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After the FAA announced recently that all aircraft owners will have to re-register their aircraft every three years, the National Air Transportation Association went to work on developing an Internet product that will handle that chore for owners. The re-registration program, developed in partnership with AIC Title Service, is available to both members and non-members of NATA, for $45 per aircraft. "The simple-to-use program ... allows for re-registrations to be professionally processed and tracked using a straightforward Web interface," says NATA. The new FAA rule goes into effect Oct. 1.

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Paul Bertorelli recently blogged on the state of sim training, and that (plus your letters) got him thinking about the state of the art — and how so many of us insist on teaching skills that technology may have already rendered obsolete. In his latest post to the AVweb Insider, Paul asks if we're being traditionalists — or just getting a jump on becoming the cranky old farts of tomorrow. Read more and share your comments.

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Thinking about last minute changes to ASAP Geographic Preferences before tomorrow night...

I know this was discussed back in 2009, but I was looking for newer information.

What's the general consensus of selecting the District of Columbia as a geographic preference? What sort of facilities would you be eligible or ineligible for? PCT, DCA, IAD, ADW, BWI, ZDC?

Hey everyone! So what are everybody's feelings about attending the Academy? Anyone nervous? I know everyone is excited, right? To those who have attended already, how many people actually fail? In one post on here (SM) I saw that the pass rate is 99.99%. Is that an accurate figure? So who is in the 0.01% that don't make it, and why did they not make it? I only ask because I am not a CTI grad, nor did I attend the CTI school. Last time I was in school was ten years ago at A&P (Airframe & Powerplant) school. I passed, but we were graded, it was not pass / fail. My average was usually in the ballpark of 2.83 to 3.17 for what its worth. I'm just trying to prepare my self as best as possible since failure is not an option, for any of us! Suggestions?

Sorry, found my answer somewhere else in the forums.

Thanks

One person was killed and at least three were badly injured Monday when a Piper PA32-RT-300 Lance made an emergency landing on a Henderson, NV city street after an apparent engine failure. Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Sgt. John Sheahan total local media that two men and two women were aboard the Lance, which had just departed Henderson’s Executive Airport around 8 a.m. on Monday. Pilot Douglas Touchet, 45, of Erath, LA died. His wife and the two others, also from Louisiana, were hurt. The group was apparently heading home after a long weekend in Las Vegas. Henderson is just south of Las Vegas. Police said no one on the ground was injured, perhaps because the pilot pointed the airplane away from houses."I think we can attribute that to the pilot trying to put it down in a safe place," he said. "You're talking the plane crashed maybe 20 or 30 feet (from the nearest home)," Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Sgt. John Sheahan said.

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