Oooh ooh I want one of these!

From a posting about 6/21 at Mojave's Scaled Composites Space Ship One
launch event:

There will be a press conference 2 hours after the flight, at which
time the FAA will award the first ever Commercial Pilot's License
with Astronaut rating.

Forget the instrument rating I was thinking of, I want an astronaut
rating! I wonder what FBO will rent me a space ship and who I can get
to instruct me? Actually, since it's above FL180, I'll need the
instrument rating too, and a high altitude endorsement, and a jet
endorsement (or is that last a type?) And, since there's no mention
of a Private Pilot's Astronaut rating, I'll need the Commercial
Pilot's license too.

Sounds like a busy training plan for me...

-Malcolm Teas

"Malcolm Teas" wrote in message

There will be a press conference 2 hours after the flight, at which
time the FAA will award the first ever Commercial Pilot's License
with Astronaut rating.

Forget the instrument rating I was thinking of, I want an astronaut
rating!

NO KIDDING! Think of the practical application. For example...uh....
well... eh.....

-c

There will be a press conference 2 hours after the flight, at which
time the FAA will award the first ever Commercial Pilot's License
with Astronaut rating.

Forget the instrument rating I was thinking of, I want an astronaut
rating!

NO KIDDING! Think of the practical application. For example...uh....
well... eh.....

-c

Well, you could use Jackie Gleason's phrase, "One of these days, Alice, to the
moon" with the addendum "and I've got the license to take you there."

We all know about the hundred dollar hamburger. That little jaunt might cost
more.

tony wrote:

We all know about the hundred dollar hamburger. That little jaunt might cost
more.

And all you get is a cheese sandwich. :-)

George Patterson
None of us is as dumb as all of us.

tony wrote:

We all know about the hundred dollar hamburger. That little jaunt might
cost
more.

And all you get is a cheese sandwich. :-)

George Patterson
None of us is as dumb as all of us.

If there's no beer and outside grilling, I'd have to rethink the rating.

I wonder if it will come in a tooth paste type tube and served with TANG.


"G.R. Patterson III" wrote in message
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tony wrote:

We all know about the hundred dollar hamburger. That little jaunt might
cost
more.

And all you get is a cheese sandwich. :-)

George Patterson
None of us is as dumb as all of us.

On 16 Jun 2004 13:40:25 -0700, (Malcolm Teas) wrote:


Forget the instrument rating I was thinking of, I want an astronaut
rating! I wonder what FBO will rent me a space ship and who I can get
to instruct me? Actually, since it's above FL180, I'll need the
instrument rating too, and a high altitude endorsement, and a jet
endorsement (or is that last a type?) And, since there's no mention
of a Private Pilot's Astronaut rating, I'll need the Commercial
Pilot's license too.

Sounds like a busy training plan for me...

-Malcolm Teas

Get the astronaut rating first. It's all down hill after that!

Mike Weller

(Malcolm Teas) wrote in message . com...
Actually, since it's above FL180, I'll need the instrument rating too,

Nah, it's class E above FL600. You can probably get a waiver to pass
through FL180-FL600 since you probably won't spend much time between
those altitudes

"TJ Girl" wrote in message
om...
(Malcolm Teas) wrote in message
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Actually, since it's above FL180, I'll need the instrument rating too,

Nah, it's class E above FL600. You can probably get a waiver to pass
through FL180-FL600 since you probably won't spend much time between
those altitudes

Yea the FAA will probably put a TFR around the moon after they award the
rating then add a new section to the FAR's

"NW_PILOT" wrote in message ...
Yea the FAA will probably put a TFR around the moon after they award the
rating then add a new section to the FAR's

It'll be the orbiting permanent TFR around the space station that'll
be hard to avoid. Then there's the DOD satelites too. And the
Russian and Chinese ones...

Uh, so that means that FAA and all the other country's avaiation
athorities can do TFRs in space? Ug, not fun. It'll make us long for
a simple FAA NOTAM system! That's the way I'd read the UN treaty on
space at least.

-Malcolm Teas