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Astra 5B is a communication satellite designed and manufactured by Astrium and operated by SES. The satellite will provide direct to home (DTH) broadcasting and digital terrestrial television network services covering the entire Eastern European region. The Astra 5B lifted off into geostationary transfer orbit (GTO) in March 2014.
The Charlotte Business Journal sought reactions from the region's business community about the merger of US Airways and American Airlines. We wanted to know what impact executives expect for their businesses and for the region as a whole.
Steven Kassels has been Board Certified in Emergency Medicine and Addiction Medicine. He is a Co-Founder and Medical Director of Community Substance Abuse Centers, with treatment facilities located throughout New England. He has served as the Chair of the Massachusetts ASAM Public Policy Committee; a member of the ASAM Medical Specialty Advisory Group; and as CARF Expert Medical Consultant for Opioid Treatment Programs. When giving talks, he frequently donates his author proceeds to local treatment centers and he has personally subsidized the publishing costs to keep the price affordable. "Medicine has been very good to me and it is my way of trying to give back." Steve will Skype into book groups and they can be scheduled through his website. The book is available at Amazon, iBooks and Barnes and Noble online.
Eight people died together with Jimmy Leeward, 74, pilot of the vintage P-51 Mustang warplane during the horrible crash at the National Championship Air Races in Reno, Nevada air show last September 2011. A total of 54 people were reported injured says Reno Air Races President and CEO, Mike Houghton.
The USS Enterprise starts the final voyage of its 50 years of service as it set sail for its 22nd and last deployment. The USS Enterprise is the first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier. It had been commissioned by the US Navy in 1961 and it is the Navy's largest and oldest combat vessel.
For a brief moment in 2011, fledgling rocket maker SpaceX silenced critics with a deal to launch a commercial telecom satellite for one of the largest fleet operators in the world.
A CV-22 Osprey, flown by the 8th Special Operations Squadron in Eglin Air Force Base, Fla. hangs in the anechoic chamber at the Joint Preflight Integration of Munitions and Electronic Systems hangar.
The Boeing Company celebrated the 20th anniversary of the first flight that was done by the C-17 airlifter in Long Beach, California. Test aircraft T-1 took off from the Boeing Long Beach site on a two hour flight that proved the engineering and design concepts of the aircraft and marked the beginning of the program on September 15, 1991.
The US Military is investigating the pilot involved in the helicopter crash in Afghanistan last month. The Apache attack helicopter had flown dangerously low at an Afghan outpost before crashing into the ground. No one on the ground was hurt, the helicopter crew survived with minor injuries.
Pilot voluntarily disclosed w/out incident and successfully completed HIMS process/returned to work/received FAA Special Issuance Medical. Shortly thereafter, the airline terminated said pilot for reasons that remain undisclosed.
Anyone who requests to see your Medical Certificate (e.g., a future employer, the FAA, a Check Airman, etc.) will know you are operating on a Special Issuance Medical Certificate.
Bottom line, 'think twice' about participating in HIMS if you are under the age of 40 and/or you anticipate switching employers.
Human Intervention Motivation Study (HIMS) Related Documents: 1st Class FAA Medical Certificate
DISCRIMINATION & POTENTIAL FOR INVASION OF MEDICAL PRIVACY
one of this airline's 'finest aviators' (aka flight qualified supervisors) known as a 'management pilot,' was put in charge of performing the equivalent of (or something close to) a mental status exam every month on pilots participating in the HIMS program
At this airline, one of these REQUIRED monthly meetings between "management" (quotes used due to the fact that most managers at this airline have little to no actual management training) and the HIMS pilot COULD PUT HIS OR HER MEDICAL CERTIFICATE (read: career) AT JEOPARDY.
Human Intervention Motivation Study (HIMS) Related Documents: Management Pilot or Medical Doctor?
"Medical school, or any kind of medical training for that matter, is obviously overrated..."
example of additional HIMS testing requirements and HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) violations NOT KNOWN to pilots prior to "volunteering" for the FAA's HIMS program
Notwithstanding current evidence, the FAA continues to rely on last century's medical model (traditional 12-Step programs, et al.) in outlining protocols for its HIMS program. When will they discontinue practicing "bad medicine?"
'Special Issuance,' may take several YEARS to accomplish. During this time, there is almost always NO salary, the costs associated with it are NOT reimbursed
It is, quite literally, the FAA's way, "or the highway." In effect, the pilot is beholden to his/her assigned medical providers (about whom she has no choice) and treatment philosophy.
this becomes the pilot's only mode of maintaining sobriety, and the only method about which she can be forthcoming; other modes of maintaining sobriety will elicit suspicion, and delay issuance of the below:
Human Intervention Motivation Study (HIMS) Related Documents: FAA Special Issuance Allowing ONLY Alcohol Breathalyzer and/or Blood Testing for Alcohol and/or Liver Function
HIMS related employment discrimination overseen by the FAA & USDOT
Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) Request(s) for Discrimination Related HIMS Records from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) & US Department of Transportation (USDOT)
Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) Request(s) for Discrimination Related HIMS Records from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) & US Department of Transportation (USDOT)