The Learning Never Stops!
Aviation is complicated business, and it can be deadly if not undertaken with the right mindset. Our goal here at Code 7700 is to prepare you to avoid the day you will need to Squawk 7700, but if that day ever comes, to prepare you to deal with it competently.
Our Latest Update
My first book on navigation was issued to Air Force navigators in 1972 and had this to say about celestial navigation: “When the ground is not visible and a position cannot be established ·with other methods, celestial observations offer the only available aid to dead reckoning.” Of course, those days are long gone. So that begs the question: why bother learning it? I offer basic celestial concepts here to show how it used to be done in hopes that it can help a modern navigator’s “big picture” view of the task at hand: getting from here to there. I think having a cursory understanding – which is all I am providing here – will make you a better navigator when the GPS doesn’t seem to be up to the task. Celestial Navigation
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Nearly four hundred passengers trapped in a hollow aluminum tube, traveling at over 80% the speed of sound and nearly 40,000 feet in the air. It is an act of faith that everyone involved is the best at what they do: the people who built the aircraft, the airline that operates it, the cabin crew, and the pilots. All the best. But is that true? A new novel: "Equity Airlines" available now. Equity Airlines
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An Index of Previous Updates
If you remember seeing something on "Homeplate" in the last two years, you will find it here, in a list of recent lead stories. Lead Stories . . .
