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.

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

(Malcolm Teas) wrote in message . com...
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.

Is this a new precedent that the FAA is establishing? Will they award
me a commercial, multi-engine instrument seaplane rating AFTER I
complete my first flight in one (and I don't even have to bother with
a checkride)?

In article , Ace Pilot
wrote:

(Malcolm Teas) wrote in message
. com...
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.

Is this a new precedent that the FAA is establishing? Will they award
me a commercial, multi-engine instrument seaplane rating AFTER I
complete my first flight in one (and I don't even have to bother with
a checkride)?

How does one maintain currency?
Three takeoffs and landings in 90 days?

I guess the FAA is following/Copying the Airforce Reglations. Fly one
operational flight above 50 miles and you get the astronaut rating. I wonder
when it will actually make it into Part 61?

From AIRFORCE INSTRUCTION (AFI) 11-402

http://usmilitary.about.com/library/...lafi11-402.htm

"AVIATION AND PARACHUTIST SERVICE, AERONAUTICAL RATINGS AND BADGES"
Chapter 2, Page 19

2.3.2. A USAF rated officer who is qualified to perform duties in space (50
miles above the earth's surface) and completes a minimum of one operational
mission is eligible for the astronaut qualifier (pilot astronaut, navigator
astronaut, observer astronaut, flight surgeon astronaut).