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MarkyGA
November 1st 09, 01:32 AM
Point well taken. Unfortunately, my dork 16 year-old nephew changed my 
settings. Sorry. (BTW, I use  to detract spammers.)
Back to the topic... As a naval aviator, what's your take on the crash?
Robert Moore
November 1st 09, 03:07 AM
 (MarkyGA) wrote 
> Point well taken. Unfortunately, my dork 16 year-old nephew changed my 
> settings. Sorry. (BTW, I use  to detract spammers.)
> 
> Back to the topic... As a naval aviator, what's your take on the crash?
ATC is not involved in low level over water searches. They MAY not have 
known that the helicopters were in the area and their visual focus was on
the water surface looking for the missing boater.
No former Naval Aviator worries the least bit about SPAM.
Bob Moore
James Robinson
November 1st 09, 03:19 AM
Robert Moore > wrote:
>  (MarkyGA) wrote 
> 
>> Point well taken. Unfortunately, my dork 16 year-old nephew changed my 
>> settings. Sorry. (BTW, I use  to detract spammers.)
>> 
>> Back to the topic... As a naval aviator, what's your take on the crash?
> 
> ATC is not involved in low level over water searches. They MAY not have 
> known that the helicopters were in the area and their visual focus was on
> the water surface looking for the missing boater.
> 
> No former Naval Aviator worries the least bit about SPAM.
If I read the news reports correctly, the Coast Guard Herc had been flying 
at 800 to 1,000 ft, and had been in regular contact with ATC.  It  was just 
entering a "military warning area" near San Clemente Island, frequently 
used for Naval exercises.  The flight had just been instructed by ATC to 
contact the Navy controller for the area.  
The FAA said that they had not been in contact with the helicopter.
The Navy spokesman said that operations in the area were normally under 
"see and avoid", but didn't say if the CG plane had in fact been in 
contract with the Navy controller.
MarkyGA
November 1st 09, 03:46 AM
Sounds like the handoff was the weakest link. Sure hope there's a plan in 
place to keep this from happening down the road.
> If I read the news reports correctly, the Coast Guard Herc had been flying
> at 800 to 1,000 ft, and had been in regular contact with ATC.  It  was 
> just
> entering a "military warning area" near San Clemente Island, frequently
> used for Naval exercises.  The flight had just been instructed by ATC to
> contact the Navy controller for the area.
>
> The FAA said that they had not been in contact with the helicopter.
>
> The Navy spokesman said that operations in the area were normally under
> "see and avoid", but didn't say if the CG plane had in fact been in
> contract with the Navy controller.
Martin Hotze[_3_]
November 1st 09, 06:08 PM
MarkyGA schrieb:
> Point well taken. Unfortunately, my dork 16 year-old nephew changed my 
> settings. Sorry. (BTW, I use  to detract spammers.)
                          ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Yeah, the legit owner of this domain will happily process all the spam 
that is sent due to your not authorized use of said domain. Or are you 
authorized to use the domain "none.com"?
---snip
domain: none.com
reg_created: 1995-05-31 00:00:00
expires: 2010-05-30 04:00:00
created: 2001-06-17 23:55:44
changed: 2009-04-20 09:39:35
transfer-prohibited: yes
ns0: ns.none.net
ns1: ns.vitalsoft.com
owner-c:
   nic-hdl: FM8-GANDI
   owner-name: 'none programs, Inc.'
---snap
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Jim Logajan
November 1st 09, 11:00 PM
Martin Hotze > wrote:
> MarkyGA schrieb:
>> Point well taken. Unfortunately, my dork 16 year-old nephew changed my 
>> settings. Sorry. (BTW, I use  to detract spammers.)
>                           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> 
> Yeah, the legit owner of this domain will happily process all the spam 
> that is sent due to your not authorized use of said domain. Or are you 
> authorized to use the domain "none.com"?
Good point - there are domains that are set aside for such usages in RFC 
2606:
http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2606.txt
Use of " would be a better selection.
MarkyGA
November 1st 09, 11:41 PM
I just read on an aviation blog that one or more of the pilots were wearing 
night goggles, which makes it hard to see other traffic in the area. So 
lemme ask this question... shouldn't at least ONE of the other crew members 
NOT be wearing night goggles??
How many of you pilots out there have been asked to act as a safety pilot 
for another pilot flying under the hood? When I was asked to do it, I knew 
that it was up to me to make DARN SURE that there was no other traffic in 
the vicinity. Our very lives depended on it. The thought of wearing anything 
that would impede my vision was unthinkable.
"Robert Moore" > wrote in message 
 5.247...
>  (MarkyGA) wrote
>
>> Point well taken. Unfortunately, my dork 16 year-old nephew changed my
>> settings. Sorry. (BTW, I use  to detract spammers.)
>>
>> Back to the topic... As a naval aviator, what's your take on the crash?
>
> ATC is not involved in low level over water searches. They MAY not have
> known that the helicopters were in the area and their visual focus was on
> the water surface looking for the missing boater.
>
> No former Naval Aviator worries the least bit about SPAM.
>
> Bob Moore
vaughn[_2_]
November 2nd 09, 12:21 AM
"MarkyGA" > wrote in message 
...
>I just read on an aviation blog that one or more of the pilots were wearing 
>night goggles, which makes it hard to see other traffic in the area. So 
>lemme ask this question... shouldn't at least ONE of the other crew members 
>NOT be wearing night goggles??
>
> How many of you pilots out there have been asked to act as a safety pilot 
> for another pilot flying under the hood? When I was asked to do it, I knew 
> that it was up to me to make DARN SURE that there was no other traffic in 
> the vicinity. Our very lives depended on it. The thought of wearing 
> anything that would impede my vision was unthinkable.
>
It is continually amazing to me how many Internet "experts" are willing to 
jump to conclusions about an aviation accident after wildly extrapolating 
from fragmentary and questionable media articles published immediately after 
an accident..  It take a while for the real information to come out!  Only 
then can we have an intelligent discussion about the accident from which we 
can hopefully learn something.
I don't know about you, but I am willing to wait.
Vaughn
Peter Dohm
November 2nd 09, 03:15 AM
"Jim Logajan" > wrote in message 
.. .
> Martin Hotze > wrote:
>> MarkyGA schrieb:
>>> Point well taken. Unfortunately, my dork 16 year-old nephew changed my
>>> settings. Sorry. (BTW, I use  to detract spammers.)
>>                           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>>
>> Yeah, the legit owner of this domain will happily process all the spam
>> that is sent due to your not authorized use of said domain. Or are you
>> authorized to use the domain "none.com"?
>
> Good point - there are domains that are set aside for such usages in RFC
> 2606:
>
> http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2606.txt
>
> Use of " would be a better selection.
Very true.  There is actually a registered domain of none.com and, if my 
recollection is correct, it may be one of the email domains of mail.com.  In 
any event, here is the "whois" information:
Domain Name: none.com
Registrar: GANDI SAS
Whois Server: whois.gandi.net
Referral URL: http://www.gandi.net
Status: clientTransferProhibited
Expiration Date: 2010-05-30
Creation Date: 1995-05-31
Last Update Date: 2009-04-20
Martin Hotze[_3_]
November 6th 09, 10:22 PM
John schrieb:
> x-no-archive: yes
> Martin Hotze wrote:
>> MarkyGA schrieb:
>>> Point well taken. Unfortunately, my dork 16 year-old nephew changed my 
>>> settings. Sorry. (BTW, I use  to detract spammers.)
>>                          ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>>
>> Yeah, the legit owner of this domain will happily process all the spam 
>> that is sent due to your not authorized use of said domain. Or are you 
>> authorized to use the domain "none.com"?
> 
> Since you are interested, perhaps you could check and let us all know?
For sure you are a ignorant §$&§ who does not care about other peoples 
property still using what does not belong to you.
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