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UAV Systems: Shaping the 21st Century - Benefits, Opportunities and Challenges


UAV Systems: Shaping the 21st Century – Benefits, Opportunities and Challenges





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Homeland Security Now Spying on Americans

BY MICHAEL WEBSTER: INVESTIGATIVE REPORTER.  NOV 10, 2008 at 9:00 PM PDT

Using Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV’s) and Space-Based Domestic Spying Surveillance technology the U.S. Government is now watching American citizens under the guise of disaster management and controlling the U.S. Mexican border. The Reaper/Predator B UAV’s robotic killing machines are currently in operation with the USAF, US Navy and the Royal Air Force. In addition non military users of the Predator B include: NASA and Homeland security though the US Customs and Border Protection agencies.

The Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) space-based domestic spy program run by that agency’s National Applications Office (NAO) is now in full operation.

Indeed during Hurricane Ike, U.S. Customs and Border Protection for the first time flew the Predator B unmanned aerial vehicle in “support of the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s relief efforts,” the insider tech publication reported.

Tom Burghardt in a recent article wrote that the Predator B carries out “targeted assassinations” of “terrorist suspects” across Afghanistan, Iraq and Pakistan. The deployment of the robotic killing machines in the United States for “disaster management” is troubling to say the least and a harbinger of things to come.

Despite objections by Congress and civil liberties groups DHS, in close collaboration with the ultra-spooky National Reconnaissance Office , the agency that develops and maintains America’s fleet of military spy satellites, and the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency that analyzes military imagery and generates mapping tools, are proceeding with the first phase of the controversial domestic spying program.

NAO will coordinate how domestic law enforcement and “disaster relief” agencies such as FEMA will use satellite imagery intelligence (IMINT) generated by military spy satellites. Burghardt wrote   earlier this year, unlike commercial satellites, their military cousins are far more flexible, have greater resolution and therefore possess more power to monitor human activity.

Barry Steinhardt, Director of the ACLU’s Technology and Liberty Project, called for a moratorium on the domestic use of military spy satellites until key questions were answered. Steinhardt said, the domestic use of spy satellites and UAV’s represents a big brother monster and we need to put some restraints in place before it grows into something that will trample Americans’ privacy rights.

This program now is providing federal, state and local officials “with extensive access to spy-satellite imagery.” Steinhardt said

As we have seen however, the use of satellite imagery during “national security events” such as last summer’s political conventions in Denver and St. Paul may have aided FBI and local law enforcement in their preemptive raids on protest organizers and subsequent squelching of dissent. One wonders if this is what DGI refers to when they write that the company “performs work in the national interest, advancing public safety and national security through innovative research, analysis and applied technology”.

There are real questions being asked, do these spies in the sky surveillance systems comply with privacy laws and doesn’t violate the Posse Comitatus Act?

The 1878 law prohibits the military from playing a role in domestic law enforcement. Since the 1990s however, Posse Comitatus has been eroded significantly by both Democratic and Republican administrations, primarily in the areas of “drug interdiction,” “border security” as well as “Continuity of Government” planning by U.S. Northern Command (NORTHCOM).

Within the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Customs and Border

Protection (CBP) is the lead agency charged with securing our nation’s borders.

United States Border Patrol (USBP) is charged with detecting and preventing the entry of terrorists, weapons of mass destruction, and unauthorized aliens into the country, and interdicting drug smugglers and other criminals.

The USBP already utilizes advanced technology to augment its agents’ ability to patrol the border. The technologies used include, but are not limited to, sensors, light towers,mobile night vision scopes, remote video surveillance systems, directional listeningdevices, various database systems, and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV’s). These so called “force multipliers†allow the USBP to deploy fewer agents in a specific area while maintaining the ability to detect and counter intrusions and are increasingly becoming a part of the USBP’s day-to-day operations.  There are two different types of UAV’s: drones and remotely piloted vehicles (RPVs). Both drones and RPVs are pilotless, but drones are programmed for autonomous flight. RPVs are actively flown remotely — by a ground control operator. UAV’s are defined as a powered aerial vehicle that does not carry a human operator, uses aerodynamic forces to provide lift, can fly autonomously or be piloted remotely, can be expendable or recoverable, and can carry lethal or nonlethal payloads. UAV’s have played key roles in recent conflicts.

Historically, UAV’s have been used in various military settings outside of U.S. borders.

UAV’s have provided reconnaissance, surveillance, target acquisition, search and rescue, and battle damage assessments. In the recent wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, UAV’s have been used for surveillance purposes and to attack enemies. The Predator UAV, for example, was armed with anti-tank weapons to attack Taliban and Al Qaeda members.

UAV’s have also been used in domestic settings. The NASA-sponsored Environmental Research Aircraft and Sensor Technology (ERAST) program has produced civilian UAV’s to monitor pollution and measure ozone levels. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is involved in developing Global Positioning Systems (GPS) and video camera guidance for using UAV’s to locate and identify toxic substances. Lastly, the Department of Energy recently announced that it will test UAV’s. They can also be outfitted with radiation sensors to detect potential nuclear booms, suite case nuke, dirty booms and reactor accidents. Thousands of National Guard troops are deployed along with U.S. Border Patrol to protect the US border and are flying unmanned aircraft system (UAS), out of bases in California, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas.

As reported earlier this year in the Laguna Journal that a special U.S. Military Task Force has been created to protect our southern border with Mexico. Members of this task force are preparing to secure the border by responding with specially trained fast response U.S. Army task force military units. These forces are already in place with the heart of the power being concentrated in El Paso and Southern New Mexico with a far reaching responsibility from East Texas to Southern California.

USAF General Victor E. Renuart Jr.

They are being staged and immediately available as emergency  “on call” units for use against terrorist threats on the nation’s border and local disasters, said Gen. Victor E. Renuart Jr., commander of United States Northern Command and the North American Aerospace Defense Commander.

The Ft. Bliss 1st Armored Division soldiers, as well as a new missile defense unit that are being created at Fort Bliss. America’s first air defense and believed by Jane’s Intel Web Report to be the owners of the sky where ever they fly. These F-22 Raptors that are stationed at Holloman Air Force Base will be available to defend homeland security, Renuart said.

Renuart, who visited Joint Task Force-North, which is under his command, declined to discuss any details of threats uncovered along the border with Mexico, but he said many agencies, including JTF-North, have made “it a very difficult border for someone to take advantage of.” That would explain why there have been recent reports of U.S. military being seen on the border.

As previously reported in the Journal the federal government acknowledged that the United States-Mexican border region has been experiencing an alarming rise in the level of criminal cartel activity, including drug and human smuggling, which has placed significant additional burdens on Federal, State, and local law enforcement agencies.

Dozens of U.S. citizens have been kidnapped, held hostage and killed by their captors in Mexico and many cases remain unsolved. Moreover, new cases of disappearances and kidnap-for-ransom continue to be reported.  

“It is prudent for us to assume that any of these established trafficking routes, whether it’s human trafficking or drugs or arms or money, any of those could be used, and so we want to keep our eyes and ears on all of those to ensure that they are not used in that regard,” Renuart said. 

Both the F-22 and the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense, or THAAD, missile — designed to destroy short- and intermediate-range ballistic missiles as they re-enter Earth’s atmosphere — are recent additions to the nation’s arsenal. A THAAD unit is being created at Fort Bliss.

“Our job at NORTHCOM is to ensure that if there’s a seam or a gap there that we’re thinking of how we could fill that with some other capability out of” the Defense Department, he said. “What that has forced us to do is think about, ‘How do you solve that time/distance problem, even on a short-notice event. And so I have access to capabilities now that I didn’t have a year or two ago that I can move very quickly to fill that need.

The MQ-9 Reaper will employ robust sensors to automatically find, fix, track and target critical emerging time sensitive targets. In the MQ-9 the SAR was replaced with the An/Apy, replacing the TESAR with more advanced high resolution radar-imaging system. The ground control segment of the Predator B is common with all previous Predator systems. The US government is developing the ability to operate multiple aircraft from a single ground station, in effect, multiplying the overall combat effectiveness over the battlefield.

Sources:

Tom Burghardt

U.S. Army Joint Task Force-North

The U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP)

U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS)

Holloman Air Force Base

Gen. Victor E. Renuart Jr., commander of United States Northern Command and the North American Aerospace Defense Commander.

U.S. Soldiers on the ground.

Barry Steinhardt

MQ-9 Reaper, Predator B UAV         On the Border: RECON

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December 30th, 2009 at 3:49 pm

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What It Takes To Become A Private Jet Pilot

If you are interested in becoming a private jet pilot, there are some important things that you need to know in order to help you on your way. For instance, you will need to know what type of training is required, how long this training will take, and perhaps you will want to know the salary that you will be receiving once you become a private jet pilot.

The Steps Involved in Becoming a Private Jet Pilot

First of all, in order to get on your way to becoming a private jet pilot, you will need a commercial pilot certificate. In order to earn your commercial pilot certificate, you need to pass commercial pilot ground school and log in at least 250 hours of flight time, as well as allotted time that is dedicated to certain conditions and maneuvers.

After you have completed the required flight hour time of experience and passed your written ground school test, you then need to pass a check-ride, which is basically like the drivers test that you take for your drivers license. As well, you will need to have a medical certificate, an instrument rating, and a multi-engine rating.

In order to be hired anywhere as a private jet pilot, you will need to have flight experience, and this is something which is based basically on the number and complexity of any aircraft that you have flown, as well as the quality and complexity of the flying that you did in that situation. You also need to realize that even after you are certified as a private jet pilot, this does not mean that you are just going to have jobs handed to you.

Basically, timing is everything. After all, you could be the worlds most qualified pilot, but that will not matter if there are no jobs available on the market. There are certainly no guarantees in the airline business, and it can be an incredibly rough career ride with that of many different employers as well as lots of changes in regards to jobs, towns, and seniority.

The most important thing to remember here is to be determined, and dont get upset or worried if things dont happen all at once. Besides that, taking the proper time and consideration will help you to achieve better results in the end, and that is what truly matters and what is truly important.

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What pilot licence do I need to pilot a private military jet?

What pilot licence do I need to pilot a private L-29 Delfin (or other private military jet)? Thanks.

In the USA, you can do it with just a private pilot’s certificate (license). You’ll also need endorsements for high-performance aircraft and turbine engine

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Middle East

Coming from the Middle East, Kenya Airways and Egypt Airways serve the Cairo -Nairobi route several times a week. Kenya Airways also flies regularly to Istanbul and Dubai. Emirates and Gulf Air both have numerous flights to Nairobi from airports throughout the Middle East.

Oman Air has twice-weekly flights from Dubai and Muscat to Mombasa and African Air express flies an unusual route between Nairobi and Dubai via Eldoret and Mogadishu. The following are recommended travel agencies

· Al-Rais Travels

· Egypt Panorama Tours 02 359 0200

· Israel Student Travel Association 020 625 7257

· Orion Tour in Istanbul

Flights to Kenya from North America

All flights from North America to Nairobi go via Europe. Through tickets are easy to get from travel agents, but it’s often cheaper to buy a discounted ticket to London, Amsterdam or Brussels and then connect to Kenya from There.

From the USA, North West airlines is affiliated with KLM and Kenya airways and offers speedy connections through London or Amsterdam to East Africa. Return tickets to Nairobi from New York can cost as little as US$1300 in the low season; from Los Angeles, a return ticket costs about US$ 1500. Fares from Canada are about 105 more, KLM and British Airways offer flights from Toronto to Nairobi.

Discount travel agents in the USA are known as consolidators. San Francisco is ticket consolidator capital of America, although some good deals can be found in Los Angeles, New York and some other big cities. Travel cuts are Canada’s national student travel agency.

The following agencies are recommended for online bookings

· Cheaptickets.com

· Expedia.ca

· Expedia.com

· Itn.net

· Lowestfare.com

· Orbitz.com

· Sta.com

· Travelocity.ca

· Travelocity.com

Flights to Kenya from UK & Ireland

Discount air travel is a big business in London. Advertisements for many travel agencies appear in the travel pages of the weekend broadsheet newspapers, in the Time Out and Evening Standard, and in the free TNT magazine.

Charter flights can work out as a cheaper alternative to scheduled flights and the package may include accommodation, which you aren’t obliged to use if you want to travel around the country.

Recommended travel agents include the following:

· Bridge the world 08704447474

· Flight centre 08708908099

· Flightbookers 08708144001

· North-South Travel 01245-608291

· Quest Travel 08704423542

· STA Travel 08701600599

· Trail finders

· Travel Bag 08708901456

Summer holiday tickets are incidentally cheaper for the UK & Ireland vacationers since their summer corresponds with low price regimes and high availability. The North American travelers are however disadvantaged by both the long distances hence more expensive tickets and low availability and peak season fluctuations.

It’s therefore advisable to at least book your Kenya vacation & holiday flights well in advance. Six months would be ideal, but even earlier is recommended.

Always remember to reconfirm your return tickets in the high vacation seasons from Kenya. If you don’t do it personally let your Kenya tour operator or Kenya Travel agent take the hassle away from you.

Have your self an enjoyable Kenya safari.

Robert is a travel expert with Landmarksafaris.com. Degreed in tourism management, he has authored more than 1000 articles on Kenya East Africa Beach travel. Get hooked up with interesting safari travelogues here: http://www.landmarksafaris.com/planner?refferer=ezinearticles

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Healing the harms

The expression “freedom isn’t free” means a lot to me. The sacrifices service men and women have made (and continue to make) in service of their country are worthy of recognition to the extent that they are helping to protect the rights and way of life of people they’ve never met. In short, I “support the troops.” But let’s follow the story here, a quick loan from the pages of history, a loan that President Obama should repay with interest.

The ties of duty and the promise that he would make sure people would know what transpired at Buchenwald concentration camp have driven retired Army intelligence officer Albert Rosenberg for over 60 years. Now 91 and living in El Paso, Texas, Rosenberg collected evidence at Nazi concentration camp Buchenwald back in April of 1945. His directive was to “investigate what really happened in that particular (liberated) camp,” Rosenberg said to Darren Meritz of the El Paso Times. “The allied governments wanted to know what happened in those camps.” The report Rosenberg and his colleagues produced was quickly classified because it contained the names of Communist foreign officials from nations with which the United States was attempting to form diplomatic ties.

Now Rosenberg’s copy has resurfaced

And he’s “looking to the White House for help in what may be the last mission of his life,” writes Meritz.

This coincides with President Obama’s recent visit to the site of Buchenwald concentration camp. Rosenberg remembered a list of 321 captured U.S. Army and British Royal Air Force men who had been held at Buchenwald. He sent that list to White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel with a handwritten note explaining how these men needed to be identified. The wounds needed to heal.

Unfortunately, Rosenberg still has not heard back from Washington.

Discovery!

“What became of these fliers, we could not determine in 1945,” Rosenberg wrote to Emanuel. “It can be assumed that many may have perished or moved in death transports to the interior of Nazi-held territory.”

Those that were found had been subject to starvation and other forms of cruelty that the fog of war cannot conceal. The Nazis had attempted to conceal records when they left Buchenwald concentration camp behind, but some evidence has unintentionally left behind after their hasty retreat.

“Among my papers that I have kept, I came across typewritten pages that were part of our original report, which lists the name, rank and serial numbers of American pilots who had been shot down during the war by the Nazis and who had been prisoners at the concentration camp,” Rosenberg said. “They no longer were at the camp. I have no idea what happened to them.”

Searching for answers

If President Obama’s visit to Buchenwald concentration camp will shed some light on Rosenberg’s list, the veteran will be happy.

After all of these many years, Albert Rosenberg has never learned whether the Buchenwald report has been declassified. He does know that the original copy had been kept at a National Archives depository in Virginia, in box 149. Unfortunately, a fire during the 1970s destroyed the report.

Stand up

At the time, that was believed to be it. Experts thought that all of the remaining copies of the Buchenwald report had disappeared. That is, until Rosenberg emerged with his own copy. In 1995, all of the material he had collected – both the first-hand testimonies and the other evidence – was collected and translated from German to English. Then it was published in book form for all the world to see, so that the questions could be answered. That name of that book, fittingly, is “The Buchenwald Report,” written by David Hackett.

Tear down that wall

“For decades people had been looking for that report,” Rosenberg said. “I do not know, have the families of those prisoners, American fliers, ever been identified? Did they survive? I don’t know.”

Buchenwald concentration camp “represents a painful gap in (Rosenberg’s) knowledge,” writes Meritz. But he has not forgotten what sacrifices men and women like them have made in the pursuit of freedom. President Obama’s visit to the camp is a start, but more can be done to make sure that families who have gone decades without knowing what exactly happened to their loved ones during that horrible war deserve closure. The system of classifying documents is questionable to say the least (Dick Cheney and his cavalier attitude toward classified memos on waterboarding is just one example). But too much time has passed. The walls must come down and America must do what is right by humanity. No more can a mere trickle of information here or there suffice. No quick loan, a loan that will never be enough until the floodgates are opened will stand. President Obama, tear down that wall of institutional ignorance.

Steve Tarlow is a professional writer for Personal Money Store. to read more articles from Personal Money Store and Steve, please follow the link below:
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Helicopter Flight Training Costs

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Becoming A Helicopter Pilot – Tips In Choosing A Training School

Helicopter training is your gateway to becoming a helicopter pilot (helicopter license is the key). This is why you should carefully plan that whole process of enrolling and getting the license. To help you out on this, here are the important things you must know.

Among all the important things you should do, planning your finances should be on the top of your list. Take note that the whole helicopter training course is expensive and involves a long time commitment. Indulge only to this commitment if you can pay the training from start to finish. If you think you cannot make it through, there are several financial aids that would lessen the financial burden you carry. Some training schools also have special payment schemes that you can take advantage of in order to get through the training.

Believe it or not, many aspire to become a helicopter pilot but few only make it to become one. One reason is that these people are not physically fit to fly a helicopter. It may be because of physical disability. It may also because they are not prepared mentally. Both these factors could cost the dream of flying to remain a dream. Another reason is that some are not into the noise and the vibration of the helicopter (this is much like the people who want to ride an airplane but are scared of flying). If you really want to enroll at a helicopter training school, make sure you are physically and mentally ready.

In choosing the helicopter training school, you should consider the location and cost of the training. Since not all states have helicopter training school, enrolling yourself at a training school could mean relocating. Now, the cost of relocation is too much. This means an added cost to the training fee. Some schools include accommodation while you train for an extra cost. Make sure you check on this.

Finding a flight training school may be easy. Here you should consider the cost, the proximity to your place, and the programs they offer. Selecting one involves more criteria.

When selecting a flight training school, it is not enough that you base it on the cost the program. Since you are the student and you are paying big time here, make sure that you check on the eligibility of the flight school you are considering. Weight the school on the criteria of maintenance capability, safety record, and pilot management. You should also talk to your possible flight instructor. Know if the instructor fits your personality. Remember that you will be spending many hours with each other so you better choose one who is fun to be with.

One important paper you should have if you want to fly is the flight medical certificate. Without it, you can never fly. There are 3 kinds of flight medical certificate: first class medical that is required for an Airline Transport Pilot, second class medical that is required to fly commercial, and the third class medical for private flying. Cost of training usually ranges between $20,000 to $45,000 depending on the type of training school.

You should also choose your helicopter training school based on the following criteria: the type of course they provide, the payment scheme, the time of training, the duration of the training, safety guidelines, insurance to the student, housing, school facilities, types of training helicopters they use, ground-school training program, job vacancy program, instructors and staff, and FAA certificates.

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Im 15 and wana be pilot but i dont know what school to go or how much it costs…?

i want to be a police helicopter pilot, im 15 and half yrs old and want to join a flight school but how much will it cost me … can u give me any websites and info about joining flight school..I live in Glendale, CA I really want to be pilot but i have heard it costs alot.. i wanted to start right now so after i graduate glendale high shool i would go to police helicopter pilot… any ideas or websites that ppl can train me for free or i have to pay.. THX ALOT GUYS..

First, the single best resource for information about becoming a law enforcement pilot is this site:

http://www.policehelicopterpilot.com/

Next, let’s get a couple of details straight. It’s 150 hours for your commercial helicopter certification (US, part 61). The ages are 16 to solo, 17 for private, and 18 for commercial.

It is correct that most police helicopter pilots are selected from within the department from experienced officers. You will likely have to put in several years of police service before they would choose you as a pilot, and even then there are no guarantees because so many people will be applying for it. Some departments will pay for training, but again, no guarantees. Obviously if you were a pilot already that would give you an advantage. Only a small minority of departments hire civilian pilots with no police experience, but they would expect years of pilot experience instead.

The bottom line is that this is a long and hard road. Even if you had your commercial pilot certification at 18, you will still have a long path before becoming a police helicopter pilot. The key is to do your research, consider all the different ways to reach your goal, and stick with it.

Also, you should always consider a college degree. It makes you a more competitive job candidate and serves as a backup plan in case you need or want to work outside of aviation or law enforcement.

Check out the following. The first is my general answer about civilian pilot training, and the second has links about flying helicopters. Both have links to flight school listings.

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AgomlMrbEezv1AETlL8ZKb3sy6IX;_ylv=3?qid=20090629182957AA2T9cF&show=7#profile-info-3i90pOWVaa

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Good luck!

Aero-TV: Enstrom Helicopters – Plotting a Course for the Future

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December 28th, 2009 at 12:31 am