Just happen to be looking at the sectionals on fore flight and noticed a rocket emblem at Houston, Waco and Midland Tx. Doesn't seem to be any explanations in the legends or on the maps for them.
Anyone have a clue?
Anyone have a clue?
Rocket emblem on charts
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Yeah quite a selection too, uh, eman told me that, or was it Cajun....yup that my story
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I know right. Guess it's laziest, I mean easier to just ask here than look at the friggin' sectional legend.
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lmars
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The one at Waco (actually McGregor) is for SpaceX. They test rocket engines there and when they do it puts an unbelievable amount of water vapor into the air. The one at Midland has something to do with Virgin Galactic.
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Or a Quicken Loans mortgage
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Or places my ex wife is taking new clients er I mean friends
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think Bezos, Branson, Musk.
Midland has a 'spaceport'...because I think someone there wanted to have a spaceport. There are no flights there. XCOR is located there, but almost 20 years and they have not flown (plus they laid off a bunch of ppl this year) - and if they do fly, it will be in Mojave anyway.
Midland has a 'spaceport'...because I think someone there wanted to have a spaceport. There are no flights there. XCOR is located there, but almost 20 years and they have not flown (plus they laid off a bunch of ppl this year) - and if they do fly, it will be in Mojave anyway.
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Or places where some of Eman's confetti has concentrated.
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My home drome, KMAF is a spaceport.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/t...-FIVE-minute-journey-cost-150-000-98-987.html
XCOR is to rocket its Lynx up to a weightless altitude and glide back down.
Currently, XCOR has a really nice altitude chamber at their facility here that is quite busy with testing for them and others like NASA.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/t...-FIVE-minute-journey-cost-150-000-98-987.html
XCOR is to rocket its Lynx up to a weightless altitude and glide back down.
Currently, XCOR has a really nice altitude chamber at their facility here that is quite busy with testing for them and others like NASA.
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Rocket symbols? That's old news.
There's a much newer symbol on VFR sectional charts. One that I'll bet is hardly known by most pilots.
A magenta diamond.
It appears in cities that have a big stadium located within 3 NM of an airport. In other words, it helps you identify airports that have intermittent stadium TFRs. This symbol is so new that it does not appear on all the current sectionals. Just the newest ones. It doesn't even appear on the sectional legend that Sac Arrow posted. But it does appear in the examples I show below.
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This place needs a rocket symbol. Or maybe a flying saucer.
Anybody remember Giant Rock Airport in the California desert?
Anybody remember Giant Rock Airport in the California desert?
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Oh joy. With the diamond NOW the terrorists will know where to find the stadium.
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And maybe Jimmy Hoffa too.
I thought it was the Pope's hat.
We had another thread on the TFR diamond. I wrote to the FAA charting people. It indeed is an intermittent TFR symbol, currently used only for the sporting event NOTAM. It's being phased in on the new sectionals as they are revised which is why it's use is a little inconsistent now (especially if you don't see the chart edges if you're dealing with a website or EFB mosaic).
I asked if they'd mark other TFR sites besides stadiums and racetracks like the Nukes, but they suggested I talk to AOPA (apparently AOPA badgered them to chart the sports venues).
Of course, Disney with much money and political clout gets an inset box as well as a notation in the chart margin.
We had another thread on the TFR diamond. I wrote to the FAA charting people. It indeed is an intermittent TFR symbol, currently used only for the sporting event NOTAM. It's being phased in on the new sectionals as they are revised which is why it's use is a little inconsistent now (especially if you don't see the chart edges if you're dealing with a website or EFB mosaic).
I asked if they'd mark other TFR sites besides stadiums and racetracks like the Nukes, but they suggested I talk to AOPA (apparently AOPA badgered them to chart the sports venues).
Of course, Disney with much money and political clout gets an inset box as well as a notation in the chart margin.
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What TFR for Nukes?
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The silent TFR known only in some sheriff's departments. Doh.
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Until the surface to air missiles are launched
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The whole FDC notam thing about not circling or loitering over nuclear power plants and sensitive national security sites, which they wont chart because the locations are sensitive...
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That's the old one - not that it's changed.
"advised" "extent practicable" "should"...
And then, it applies to nearly everything on the freeking planet except farmland... How many police stations are there in the U.S?
Not at TFR - a bureaucratic feel good NOTAM at best.
FDC 6/8818 - ...SPECIAL NOTICE...IN THE INTEREST OF NATIONAL SECURITY AND TO THE EXTENT PRACTICABLE, PILOTS AND UAS OPERATORS ARE STRONGLY ADVISED TO AVOID THE AIRSPACE ABOVE OR IN CLOSE PROXIMITY TO CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE AND OTHER SENSITIVE LOCATIONS SUCH AS POWER PLANTS (NUCLEAR, HYDRO-ELECTRIC, OR COAL), DAMS, REFINERIES, INDUSTRIAL COMPLEXES, MILITARY FACILITIES, CORRECTIONAL AND LAW ENFORCEMENT FACILITIES UNLESS OTHERWISE AUTHORIZED. PILOTS AND UAS OPERATORS SHOULD NOT CIRCLE AS TO LOITER IN THE VICINITY OVER THESE TYPES OF FACILITIES. 23 MAR 15:38 2016 UNTIL PERM. CREATED: 23 MAR 15:37 2016
What exactly is "Critical infrastructure"? Power lines, rail roads, cities, and highways?
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I thought the rocket symbols were marking a spot where Elton John lives.....
The locations aren't too sensitve, the NRC puts them all precisely on a google map for you: http://www.nrc.gov/info-finder/reactors/The whole FDC notam thing about not circling or loitering over nuclear power plants and sensitive national security sites, which they wont chart because the locations are sensitive...
It's only the FAA that's messed up. The original NOTAM gave locations so inaccurate and vague, you'd have never found them. In one case I am familiar with, they put two reactors in the same facility in the wrong state and with wildly different locations (one was listed as being like 25 miles E of Wilmington and the other 20 NE and they are right next to each other).
You can also type their name direct into google maps and get driving directions.