I think it's been a good couple of years since most of our FAs have been able to move like that.

Ahhhhh yes, the dreaded leap attack - is there any defense it can't beat? :)

Scoop

After a protracted gestation period, the Senate unanimously passed its FAA reauthorization bill late yesterday, sending it to a conference committee that will reconcile differences with the House version approved last May.
General aviation groups cheered the measure, which contains no user fees for GA but modestly raises the federal excise taxes on jet-A and aviation gas that GA pilots pay into the aviation trust fund.

The “FAA Air Transportation Modernization and Safety Improvement Act” establishes clear deadlines for adopting existing NextGen navigation and surveillance technology and accelerates planned timelines for integrating ADS-B into the National Airspace System (NAS). The bill requires the development of RNP and Rnav procedures at the 35 busiest airports by 2014 and for the entire NAS by 2018.

As a result of the crash of Colgan Air Flight 3407 last year near Buffalo, N.Y., S.1451 contains provisions for more stringent training for airline pilots, increasing the right-seat minimum flight hours from 250 to 800. It also mandates all carriers adopt Aviation Safety Action programs, Flight Operational Quality Assurance programs and Line Operations Safety Audit programs.

The House and Senate reauthorization bills now go to a conference committee, but it could take a while to iron out differences because there are major discrepancies between the two bills.


The DeMint bill was NOT included in the Reauthorization bill.

No the DeMint Bill is stuck in committee where it needs to die.

ALPA PAC; the best $10 / month you'll ever spend:cool:

How much did they give to Neo?

Well when ALPA came out against a recently passed bill, I sent money.

PAC does a lot of work and the majority of it is work you will never see.

I do prefer the flying attack. However, it sometimes turns out like this:

http://icanhascheezburger.files.word...-will-fail.jpg

http://gradeinflation.com/gibyconference.jpg

Best part of this is dedicated to Satch from Lein, Shizzi and Beer, and me. Honestly, I'm so confused but I feel vindicated too. Sweet:

The East
1. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Engineering and science based schools dominate the Sweet Sixteen of Tough A's. Their workloads are higher and their grades are lower than national averages. Rensselaer fits right in with a high quality student body and an average GPA about 0.25 below typical private schools of its caliber.

2. Princeton University. The Tigers are a newcomer to the tough A. Leadership here has worked hard over the last few years to make sure that excellence is accorded only to those that truly deserve it. Princeton may be new to reversing grade inflation, but in this year's tourney, they may go all the way.

3. Boston University. BU's student body complains mightily about grades and how hard it is to get an A. At a lot of schools such complaints defy reality. But at BU, getting a B average puts you right in the middle of pack. Graduating with a 3.5 makes you a star.

4. MIT. The Beavers likely deserve a higher seed, but their leadership is very, very tight lipped about their grades. When MIT last slipped and published some data several years ago, the average GPA was less than 3.2. At schools with comparable talent like Harvard and Yale, GPA's are 0.2 to 0.4 higher.

The South
1. Virginia Commonwealth University. Public schools in urban settings can be very tough places to earn an A. At VCU, even getting a B can be an achievement. Its average GPA is 2.6, far below national averages.

2. Hampden-Sydney College. H-SC is a very small school tucked away in the South. It's had modest problems with grade inflation over the last decade, but H-SC's grades are still so low relative to other liberal arts colleges that it fully merits a number 2 seed in the very tough Southern region.

3. Roanoke College. Liberal arts colleges tend to be easy A heaven. That's not so at Roanoke where B is still the most common grade and A's are earned less than 30 percent of the time.

4. Auburn University. Another Tiger in this year's Sweet Sixteen. Eat your hearts out 'Bama; Auburn is just a tougher place to earn an A.

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That is a beautiful thing to see.