Palm Springs Air Museum Announces New Berger Youth Exploration Center

Palm Springs Air Museum

Announces New Berger Youth Exploration Center

 

WHEN: Monday Jan. 30, 2012 -  11 AM

 

WHERE:  745 N. Gene Autry Trail, Palm Springs

 

WHAT:  -- New Interactive Exhibits, underwritten by the                            

                H. N. & Frances C. Berger Foundation:

·       Virtual Radio Room, complete with vintage WWII radio console, microphone, headphones and ability to talk with the nearby Control Tower and Mohawk Simulator; will be able to hear vintage audio from a B-17 cockpit.

·       Control Tower, complete with vintage WWII control console, microphone, headphones and ability to communicate with the nearby Radio Room and the Mohawk Simulator; will also be able to listen to the Palm Springs International Airport’s Control Tower;

·       Gravity Wheel -- interactive display demonstrating the effect of gravity from an airplane

·       English-Spanish interactive kiosk to demonstrate the key elements of why planes can fly

WHO: 

·       Vista Del Monte Elementary School - 2^nd graders (ages 7 and 8)

·       Palm Springs Air Museum representatives

www.PalmSpringsAirMuseum.org, 760-778-6262

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VA APPROVED FLIGHT COURSES

          





Helicopter Training

As a FAR Part 141 and Part 61 facility, Upper Limit Aviation offers a rigorous helicopter training program with courses that take students through Private to Certified Flight Instrument Instructor (CFII). ULA uses a consistent and standardized curriculum, which include proprietary, FAA approved, course syllabi. In addition to its exclusive affiliation with Salt Lake Community College, ULA offers 13 FAR Part 141 Courses. This allows ULA to train international students and offer Veterans Benefits Under Chapter 30 and Chapter 33 of the GI Bill.

Upper Limit’s flight training program introduces students to flying in mountain terrain and to the unique wind and weather conditions associated with it. All courses are taught at high-density altitudes (above 5,000 ft.), allowing for increased instruction in power management and aircraft operation in power and lift limited situations.

Located at the Salt Lake International Airport (SLC), ULA operates in Class Bravo (B) airspace. This offers students daily practice in communication with air traffic control in busy and highly regulated airspace.

FAR Part 141 special curricula courses are also offered by ULA, they include: Turbine Transition, External Load, Mountain Flying, R44 Transition, and SFAR 73 Transition.


Salt Lake Community College (SLCC) is currently the only college program in the state of Utah, in association with Upper Limit Aviation and Cornerstone Aviation, offering VA approved courses for both helicopters and fixed-wing. Benefits are available under Chapters 30, 31, 33, 1606 and 1607. ULA's FAR Part 141 certificates, including its special curricula courses, have also been approved by the Veterans Administration.

Benefits, for those who qualify, include Private to CFII under Chapter 33, or Instrument to CFII under Chapter 30. Additionally, if a student has exhausted their current Chapter 30 benefits they may be eligible to enroll in SLCC, receiving another 12 months of benefits under Chapter 33.

Because this partnership is unique, the relationship between the VA, SLCC, and Upper Limit Aviation is constantly being updated and redefined. Please check our newsletter for the latest updates.

For more information on the use of VA benefits and coverage, visit: www.va.gov. For your eligibility status, please visit: http://www.gibill.va.gov/

SLCC / Cornerstone Aviation Affiliation


Salt Lake Community College (SLCC) is a public, open-access, comprehensive community college committed to serving the broader community. Its mission is to provide quality higher education and lifelong learning to people of diverse cultures, abilities, and ages, and to serve the needs of community and government agencies, business, industry and other employers.

Upper Limit Aviation (ULA) is uniquely partnered with SLCC and Cornerstone Aviation (CSA) to offer a Professional Pilot Program for both helicopter/rotorcraft and fixed-wing aircraft. Both are FAR Part 141 schools offering a thorough, standardized curriculum.

In addition to obtaining an Associate of Science (AS) degree in the Professional Pilot Program, students will have access to the financial aid, academic counseling, and support infrastructure of the fourth largest community college in the nation,

Upper Limit Aviation in conjunction with Salt Lake Community College is approved under the Post 9/11 GI Bill to accept up to 100% coverage (Pending Eligibility)for flight training, including turbine training in all courses.

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Dr. Ed Gordon’s Clash of the Titans -

 German-Russian Campaign During World War Two Program at Palm Springs Air Museum

           

 On Saturday, January 21, 2012 at 1:00 PM, the Palm Springs Air Museum presents renowned historian Dr. Ed Gordon’s Clash of the Titans: the German-Russian Campaign During World War Two.  

On June 22, 1941, Adolf Hitler unleashed an army of 3 million for a blitzkrieg conquest of the Soviet Union. He should have had second thoughts since Napoleon had begun his disastrous invasion of Russia 120 years earlier on that very day!

During the Second World War over 10 million Germans and Russians would fight for four years over a 1,500 mile front stretching from the Arctic Ocean to the Black Sea.

  Both sides deployed countless thousands of planes, tanks, and field guns in a seemingly endless conflagration on a truly epic scale. Dr. Edward E. Gordon will help the audience relive this clash of the titans by recalling some of the major battles of this campaign – Moscow, Stalingrad, Kursk, and finally Berlin.] 

Seventy-five percent of all the German casualties of World War II occurred on the Russian Front.

Learn about the political leaders, generals, soldiers, and common people who were swept up in these titanic events.

Consider how the outcome of this German-Russian campaign shaped the map of Europe for the next 50 years. Only today can we begin to fully understand its fatal legacy for the people of Europe.

The program is included with regular admission to the museum, located at 745 N. Gene Autry Trail, Palm Springs,

Palm Springs Air Museum

760-778-6262. Admission price ranges from $8-$15 dollars.

Children under 6 and all active military & their families with ID are free. There are Senior & AAA discounts.

The Palm Springs Air Museum is an educational non-profit organization whose mission is to preserve, educate and honor our veterans.

Over 30 flyable planes and interactive exhibits are housed in 65,000 square feet of climate-controlled hangars. 

There is also an educational center with flight simulators upstairs in the 8,500 volume library and the new Berger Youth Exploration Center in the B-17 Hangar. 

 

NBAA

UPDATE

NBAA Not Buying White House Defense of User Fees
Last week, NBAA President and CEO Ed Bolen responded forcefully to a signal of renewed support for user fees from the Obama Administration. The White House defended its position in a reply to more than 8,000 signatories who added their names to a petition asking President Obama to reconsider his support for user fees. “With its response to the industry's unified and well-founded concerns over user fees for general aviation, the Obama Administration has made clear its intention to ignore the fact that fuel taxes are a proven, efficient, fair and environmentally friendly way to charge for the industry's use of the aviation system,” Bolen said. “Instead, the White House intends to set aside the industry's concerns by pushing ahead with an administratively burdensome, bureaucracy-building, foreign-style user fee scheme that has very little to do with actual costs imposed on the system.” Read Bolen’s statement in its entirety.

Operators Reminded to Re-Register Aircraft
Aircraft owners with registration certificates issued in July of a given year are reminded to apply for re-registration of their aircraft with the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) prior to the January 31, 2012, deadline. Those operators should have already received a notice in the mail containing an online re-registration code. As published in a 2010 final rule, all civil aircraft registered before October 1, 2010, must be re-registered over a three-year period according to a schedule of rolling deadlines. NBAA urges owners of aircraft with registration certificates issued in any other month to verify their address with the FAA registry and to check the schedule in order to determine their re-registration period. Review the re-registration process and see the schedule.

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Rule Change Helps 135 Operators at Foreign and Military Airports
Last week, the FAA issued a direct final rule that modifies the language in 14 CFR 135.225 to permit Part 135 operators that have been issued the C079 Operations Specification to operate at foreign and military airports with lower-than-standard weather minimums. This rule change brings the specific regulatory section into alignment with other sections of the regulations that currently permit lower than standard IFR operations at domestic civilian airports when authorized. NBAA has worked with the FAA to resolve differing interpretations of the rule over the last few years, but this change resolves the issue once-and-for-all in a manner acceptable to Part 135 operators. The rule change is effective on February 27, 2012. Direct questions to NBAA’s Mark Larsen at mlarsen@nbaa.org and review NBAA’s Part 135 resources.

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New Excise Taxes Being Levied by IRS on Business Aviation
In recent years, Internal Revenue Service (IRS) auditors have become more aggressive in their audits of aircraft management companies and charter operators. The auditors have begun assessing federal excise tax (FET) on a wide variety of non-commercial flight operations, including flights conducted by aircraft owners under FAR Part 91 when the aircraft is managed by an outside management company. In a new article, NBAA Tax Committee members Keith Swirsky and Christopher Younger of GKG Law, P.C. analyze whether FET applies to these operations, and if in certain situations IRS auditors may be incorrectly asserting the FET is due. Review the article on NBAA's FET page.

SMS Announcement

The Best Year since When?

Happy New Year friends,

2011 may have been the safest year in terms of accident statistics since 1945 which might mean we are starting to make progress on breaking through the safety plateau that has existed for decades. That is great news of course, but we won't know for some time exactly why.  I suspect the training on runway incursions, CFIT, loss of control accidents from FSF, NBAA and the FAA has raised awareness and raising awareness is what your SMS is all about so let's hope the positive trends continue.

For Safety Officers I have prepared a brief review of what you should be doing with your programs at this time of year, as well as providing you an offer I think you can't refuse.

Year in Review

While your program is still in the formative stages at this point in time, you should be able to quantify the benefits received the past year from the SMS. The best way to do that is to take a look at your SMS files. Regardless if you keep paper files or electronic files, you should see the following:

1. 12 safety committee minute forms
2. A few C.A.R. forms
3. A couple of incident reports or near miss reports
4. 12 training completion records for all employees
5. At least 2 audit checklist completed

With the above documentation, the New Year is a great time to analyze and identify the lessons learned and to quantify your efforts towards continuous improvement.  But what if you don't have any of the above documentation?  That would indicate you're not getting your money's worth. We all know documentation alone is meaningless but without it, you really don't have any way to measure progress.

Since your initial training, you have probably customized your manuals and made the program fit your operation (You have unlimited discretion in making your SMS fit your operation)

Now for my offer that I hope you'll take advantage of. Since you've already spent a ton of money on a program that you really didn't want in the first place, I want to help you get a return on your investment by providing the following services:

1. SMS assurance audit
   1. SMS Confirmation of Conformity Declaration
   2. Recurrent training (4 hours)
   3. SMS tune-up and overhaul as needed (records, docs, reports)
2. Threat Error Management/ CRM (4 hours)
   1.  Latest TEM and CRM concepts

 

3. EHS Assessment
   1.  You will get a formal environmental, health, and safety assessment report
   2.  OSHA compliance report included

This New Year program will ensure you are getting the most from your SMS while providing you with on-going training that is essential to meeting the goal of continuous improvement.

This 2 to 3 day program is for part 91/135 operators and is $900 complete (This is normally a $6000 package) so I hope you will take advantage of it while I can afford to do it. My hope is that your SMS will really start to provide obvious benefits to you this year. Don't let the program collect dust and represent a waste of time and money.

What the improved accident data suggest to me more than anything is that raising awareness and having on-going training can make a big difference in the big picture. I hope you will call me to set your program up, and in the interim, have a great and safe new year.

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