Florida Institute of Technology

[rvsm410]

C-150etops....

Cool handle.....trying to figure if you put the other engine on top of the wing in pusher config like the lakes amphibs.....so tell me what did they approve you for on ETOPS trips??? bet you got the 208 minutes didn't ya....cool

Oh yea, instead of a wet wing, you got a wet tail!!! Ha just spoofing...have a good day..

 

[kjjz28]

Well, I'm just now getting back into flying and working on my CFI when I have some extra time and $$$. I'm a '91 grad and my BS Aviation Mgmt/Flight Tech I guess was good enought to get me in the door at a major insurance & financial services company. I miss the flying but am glad to be home with the family 7 nights a week and have 11 yrs tenure. Just a choice I made (plus had too many bills to pay to only flight instruct after school). Getting laid off when Eastern filed Chapter 7 during my senior year was enough for me to get into something a bit more stable.

Last time I was in MLB in Sept '01, it appeared the fleet had decreased in size significantly. One thing I was impressed with was the maintenance done on the aircraft and never having to worry about squawks. As for the girl situation, I brought my own from TX and she worked in West Palm so we saw each other on the weekends. I recommend visiting the campus along with a few other schools and see which one you feel most comfortable with.
Good luck.

p.s Is Satellite NDB still operational?

 

[FlynSuperD]

p.s Is Satellite NDB still operational?

Was Satellite ever really OPERATIONAL????

 

[FlynSuperD]

Not sure if you know it or not...but FIT is instrumental to the space shuttle program. N614FT is equipped with an extra antenna...when the shuttle is going to launch, FIT14 goes up with one of our instructors and an Air Force guy and puddles around for a few hours off shore. The antenna provides a communication go-between between Houston and the Orbiter as the Orbiter goes past the curvature of the Earth but is not yet high enough to be picked up by satilites or towers in Europe.

Don't believe me....next time you are on the ramp, look at FIT14, check out the extra antenna.

I flew a bunch of those flights back when I was an instructor there. There are a few cadets modified for these missions, who we flew for the air force. A couple days before launch, a radio package and a UHF antenna is added to the airplane. We would go up about 3 hours before launch and orbit over the Indian River, just west of the shuttle landing facility and the radio package would operate as a UHF repeater. We would act as a voice relay of messages between the cape and the coast guard falcon patrolling the booster rocket drop zone for any boats out off shore where line of sight VHF comm would not reach the cape. We also had an air force observer onboard, who at the time of launch, would monitor the trajectory of the orbiter above any cloud deck (where gorund observers would loose sight) to a point where the telemetry from antennas on the ground could take over, about 8000'. It was always cool at the air force briefing, when they had the overhead of all the support aircraft, C-130s, C.G. Falcon, various helicopters, G-2, C-90s, and a PA28!!!