Philip van Ishoven is een doorwinterd collega-instructeur bij de Luchtcadetten van België. Hij heeft al een hele tijd geleden een woordenlijst NL-FR-NL opgesteld met veel voorkomende termen uit het zweefvliegjargon. In samenwerking met Philip heb ik de woordenlijst uitgebreid naar het Engels en werd er ook een kolom voorzien voor het Duits – al kunnen we daar nog wel wat hulp gebruiken. Een meer dan handige tool voor zowel instructeurs als leerlingen – gratis ende voor niets....

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Blijkbaar valt er niet te lachen met die Finse jongens...

ATW Daily News
Tuesday November 17, 2009

Finnair pilots represented by the Finnish Air Line Pilots' Assn. will strike for a second consecutive day today, forcing the airline to cancel its entire program of more than 200 scheduled flights.AY said leisure flights operated by management pilots will continue "with the help of leasing arrangements" and that "individual changes" to the schedule "are possible." The strike, which also affected Finnair's Sunday schedule, will cost the airline €2-€5 million per day, according to various press reports. Pilots rejected a settlement proposal last Friday, leaving Finnair "totally stunned," it said. Senior VP-Human Resources Anssi Komulainen said the airline would have accepted any of the three mediator proposals presented over the past 18 months. "Now we are forced to come up with totally new solutions in order to secure the future of the company," he said. The union said, "The proposal by the state mediator allowed unlimited use of outside workforce, and did not offer pilots any work security. We cannot sign such a proposal."

Interesting article on the upcoming changes in TCAS II versin 7.1
Especially the video in the last paragraph is quite impressive!!!

EUROCONTROL - TCAS II version 7.1
TCAS II version 7.1 Following extensive EUROCONTROL input and pressure, a revised TCAS II Minimum Operational Performance Standards (MOPS) document has been jointly developed RTCA and EUROCAE. During a joint session in March 2008, the RTCA SC (Special Committee) 147 and EUROCAE WG (Working Group) 75 agreed on the final version of the TCAS II MOPS, to be known as TCAS II version 7.1. The MOPS were approved the RTCA Program Management Committee in June 2008 (document DO-185B) and by the EUROCAE Council in September 2008 (document ED-143).The MOPS were revised following the identification by EUROCONTROL of two safety issues in the existing TCAS logic (one relating to the performance of the RA-reversal logic, and the other involving incorrect responses to Adjust Vertical Speed RAs). See below for the description of the changes.