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It was, apparently it was an intern at the NTSB's fault. "Earlier today, in response to an inquiry from a media outlet, a summer intern acted outside the scope of his authority when he erroneously confirmed the names of the flight crew on the aircraft. http://www.ntsb.gov/news/2013/130712.html

Just in from KTVU news - the names of the 4 pilots on board. If that won't teach them to get their facts straight nothing will! :rofl:

I took my girlfriend outside once to show her the ISS passing over, i tried to get her interested in the curiosity landing and even now with this video all i manage is a meager "eh". The thing is, i can relate to it. My whole life i had known the Eiffel tower exists, where it is, how tall and...

I see numbers sort of stair stepping to the right but not evenly, 0 - 10 horizontal then 10-100 vertical, 100-10000 horizontal 10,000 to 1M vertical then i just imagine it continuing off into infinity to the right slowly bending upward the further you go. Artlav reminded me, i have always...

Roses are red, violets are blue. Some peoms rhyme, this one doesnt.

Well, after a little trial and error i landed 3 kerbals on eve :) with 2 of those large fuel tanks and 4 nuclear rocket's attached you have the delta V to do almost anything.. i got to eve surface only having burnt ~3500 litres including kerbin ejection, plane alignment and eve capture +...

yes i tried downloading the full file too, but i kept getting the half finished zip files that way as well.

Well i suppose you would know.

I'm sure if they had the skills to build that piece of machinery and lob it a few hundred million miles to another planet they didn't just stick any old instrument anywhere. You can bet they had already thought of this and considered it an acceptable risk with information that we do not have...

Thanks for that, yes this is the approach i had been taking. As for the earth's curvature that shouldn't be an issue.. this is mostly for local flights no more than 150nm from departure. About accounting for rotation however.. yes i can see how that would affect space craft where the earth...

I am a bit of a hobby programmer and went about coding up some tools to speed up my flight planning. What i wanted was to be able to input my desired track and True airspeed, the wind direction and speed and the distance to destination. Then be returned a heading to counteract the wind...

I do my flying at a sea level airport so i can definately understand why procedure might be different. Even mt kosciusko biggest mountain on the continent is only 7,300 foot :lol: not many hills to clear over this way.

I know here in Australia at least we are taught to always have mixture full rich for all full throttle operations to aid in engine cooling. Common sense would be to lean it for a high altitude take off though but i can see how it might have just been a force of habit. As for flaps i used to...

It always seemed wastefull to me to spend all that fuel carrying up wings and landing gear into orbit when the wings are only going to be used in the last 15 minutes and the wheels only during the landing roll. A spacecraft will never be as cost effective or efficient as it could be with wings...

If you use a joystick maby check the deadzone setting on your joystick throttle? That caught me out a few times, engine was thrusting slightly without me knowing.

Can't say i have ever used aerobrake mfd or base-synch mfd.. maby ill give it a go sometime.. Anyway generaly i do the "burn on the other side of the earth" from a fairly low orbit and lower the PeA down to around 30km and just turn up acceleration till im around 100km altitude. Then its...

We also have that 50nm restriction, but only if you are not carrying an ELT. So there is no night flying at all allowed without an IFR rating? Seems quite restrictive..

Down here in Australia the job market for pilots is alot better, mostly because there is a large demand for pilots to help fly mining equipment/workers around the deserts and such but there is also quite a few job opportunities down south (where i live) where there is alot of instructing work to...

I wash dishes at the local Thai restaurant. I'm also a full time student pilot, so hopefully i wont be doing that for too much longer :)

what im curious about, is how difficult would it be to kick a window 'out' against the pressure of the water if a car was submerged? or would the weight of the water make it easier to smash it?