Smarter Skies, Forbes – NY, USA
Pilots in Alaska’s mountainous Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta have had to fly without radar, and normally below 2,000 feet, to avoid foul weather and icing. They would slalom through canyons on memory. Since 2000 the FAA has installed five ground base stations and equipped 200 planes with ADS-B gear. Now pilots get weather warnings and detailed traffic conditions and topographies. Accidents are down 50%.
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WHEN IS bETHEL GOING TO GET IT’S FIRST DOWNHILL SKIRUN??
Bethel hill is state’s highest point
KPCnews.com – Kendallville,IN,USA
BETHEL — Admittedly, by most states’ standards, it isn’t very high.
Nor did it seem high as I approached it. I was driving across relatively
flat Indiana …
http://www.kpcnews.com/articles/2007/06/03/features/columnists/earl_conn/doc4663513e3eaca204103906.txt
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I think our mountains have been taken over by a mysterious corporation, located under the Lynden terminal at the airport, according to this report. :mrgreen:
For an intro to the public record, http://worldlifebook.blogspot.com/2007/08/chapter-1-introduction.html