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What FAA publications did you once find useful that are no longer published?

I noticed this old gem on the flying bookshelf in the basement last night and realized that the Colorado Division of Aeronautics now publishes the best book on Colorado airports (all of them, not just the mountain airports).

But thumbing through it brought back memories of an FAA that was trying harder to help promote rather than enforce...

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Recently saw old videos showing typical SAR activity complete with re-enactments of "victims" and all those awesome cheesy 70's safety films.

It seems that most of today's safety content comes from ASF online, and pubs like this one are gone, never to return or get updates.

Any other gems you have lying around in your aviation "stash"?
 
The films bring me back. Back in 1981 I was involved in the Martin Marietta flying club that was just founded. Since I lived next to the GADO up at BJC, it was my job to get the "safety films" for the club meetings. Even then they were sometimes rather humerous (even in the 80's 96 code transponders were ancient history).
 
flyingron said:
The films bring me back. Back in 1981 I was involved in the Martin Marietta flying club that was just founded. Since I lived next to the GADO up at BJC, it was my job to get the "safety films" for the club meetings. Even then they were sometimes rather humerous (even in the 80's 96 code transponders were ancient history).
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96 code transponders? I recall 64 code transponders, but not 96.
 
flyingron said:
The films bring me back. Back in 1981 I was involved in the Martin Marietta flying club that was just founded. Since I lived next to the GADO up at BJC, it was my job to get the "safety films" for the club meetings. Even then they were sometimes rather humerous (even in the 80's 96 code transponders were ancient history).
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When did that happen? I worked at Martin in Denver from 1979 to 1983. I wasn't a pilot then, so maybe that's why I missed it.
 
Ghery said:
When did that happen? I worked at Martin in Denver from 1979 to 1983. I wasn't a pilot then, so maybe that's why I missed it.
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The Titan Flyers, Martin's flying club was established early in 1982 if I recall (I worked for Martin for exactly 13 months from June 81 to July 82). We had four aircraft (a 150, a tomahawk, some Grumman (I think it was a Tiger), and something else I wasn't as a newly minted private eligible to fly) based at Arapahoe County (as APA was called back then). I published the newsletter and we had monthly meetings out at the rec area outside the main gate.

I lived a few blocks from BJC when I was working there.
 
I liked the old Exam-o-Grams the FAA used to send out in the mail.
 
My CFI gave me a really old FAA handout regarding landings. It had drawings and jokes and cartoons. If I find it I will scan it to share.
 
flyingron said:
The Titan Flyers, Martin's flying club was established early in 1982 if I recall (I worked for Martin for exactly 13 months from June 81 to July 82). We had four aircraft (a 150, a tomahawk, some Grumman (I think it was a Tiger), and something else I wasn't as a newly minted private eligible to fly) based at Arapahoe County (as APA was called back then). I published the newsletter and we had monthly meetings out at the rec area outside the main gate.

I lived a few blocks from BJC when I was working there.
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Thanks. I missed that back then, but as I said, I wasn't a pilot then. That rec area outside the main gate was quite a facility.
 
*sigh*

I sure miss hanging out with the old WWII pilots. When they talked about "an old gem" of an FAA publication, it was published in 1944 -- not 1994! LOL
 
flyingron said:
You're right. If God wanted me to count in base eight, he'd have not given me thumbs.
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Octal requires thumbs - what else are you going to use for the carry bit?
 
Jay Honeck said:
*sigh*

I sure miss hanging out with the old WWII pilots. When they talked about "an old gem" of an FAA publication, it was published in 1944 -- not 1994! LOL
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FAA wasn't around in 1944. There are still some out there who remember the changeover from CAA to FAA. But yeah, a 1994 pub is still new.
 
Oh, I thought the FAA had started doing something useful like running PUBS.

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Oh well, back to their regularly schedueled bureacracy, and make work nonsense. :)
 
Kim, I expected Wally and the Beaver to be met by their mom from that video. Priceless.
I think I'll forward it to my students for grins.
 
I never intended the focus to be on the age of the publication, but more on the fact that we no longer receive such useful publications, especially not localized one's like that one.

Just $230 LED landing lights.
 
I wonder what they would thing of my water/ethanol injection system in the Tiger?
 
Jeanie said:
Kim, I expected Wally and the Beaver to be met by their mom from that video. Priceless.
I think I'll forward it to my students for grins.
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If you like that, look at the "playlist" from the person who uploaded the film.

Seems they have over 120 of them and I fell asleep to a 30 minute video called "It Only Has To Happen Once" where two men are talking about golf and forgetting your landing gear. Awesome.
 
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