Aviation Day 2024 is on Monday, August 19, 2024: what does 1 means in aviation frequency days?

Monday, August 19, 2024 is Aviation Day 2024. Erie, Clarion airports host Aviation Day festivities Aviation Day Celebrations

Each day to celebrate the introduction of aviation, Aviation Day falls on and remember the birthday of Orville Wright. Federal structures in the usa might be needed to fly the united states flag about this trip to presedential whim to be able to promote your day, and general curiosity about aviation. Is there a much better day to fly? Have a flight fly inside the country, fly to The country, fly to Europe. Lookup travel handles the likes of Expedia and fly to Sweden, if you are feeling extreme!

Both! Sunday or Monday... Depends where.

But I think most people/countries got it wrong: I am not religious, but if we read the Bible, God started building the Universe "some day" (the FIRST day). He worked about a week, THEN He took a rest... on SUNDAY. Hence, the FIRST day of the week should be MONDAY...

It is also "logical" to say that the last day of a week is the rest we deserve AFTER a long week...

(You don't rest BEFORE working - at least not in my books...)

@skipper: As per above, the Portugueses are wrong! Monday should be "prima-feira" :-)

Any Marines out there in Aviation?

A typical day might go like this: show up at work by 7am in your coveralls, wait for someone to come back from the maintenance meeting and pass the word, then get assigned to fix a specific gripe on a certain aircraft and go into work, making sure you document everything on a computer as you go. Maybe during the day you'll get assigned to be on the flightline during a launch, to act as a troubleshooter as the pilot prepares for take-off. Go the chow hall for lunch and hurry back to the shop. Maybe you have to dig into some schematics to troubleshoot that gripe from earlier, or order parts from Supply. At the end of the day straighten up the shop and take out the trash. Then go back to your barracks room, or go do whatever you want after work.

A normal day shift would be at least from 0700-1600, but could be a bit longer. Night crew gets the worst of it, I have seen guys work 1600-0700 many times. But many actually enjoy it because they get Fridays off.

Things are indeed more laid-back than on the ground side and you won't go to the field or carry a pack, but there is almost never any time allocated for things like group runs or going to the gym. The flight schedule is everything and the scramble to make this schedule can be stressful. Air Wingers put in a tremendous amount of time at "the office" compared to anyone else I've dealt with in the Corps, so I take offense when people say the Wing has it easy.

Avionics Marines need to be able to hold a security clearance.

Depending on what platform you go to the systems you work with will vary a lot. Attack helicopters (Cobras) and fighters (F-18s) have way more stuff to deal with than transport helos -- much more work and systems to learn, but more interesting too, in my opinion.

In a transport helo squadron you'll most likely get some rides along the way. You MIGHT get a ride in a light/attack helo squadron. You won't ever get a ride in a Harrier or Hornet.

If you deploy to a war zone, you will most likely be on a big, relatively safe air base that you won't ever have to leave.

Normal deployments vary by community: for example, in a West Coast helo unit, come time to deploy the unit does a 3-way split between a West Coast MEU, Okinawa, and the 31st MEU (also based in Okinawa). By contrast in the F-18 world the whole squadron goes on a carrier. C-130s would be the way to go, in my opinion: they don't need to rely on anyone else, are self-sufficient, and seem to go on a lot of fun deployments.

Australian Civil Aviation Rules?

Fox Riley,

I've cracked open my Civil Aviation Safety Regulations (CASR) 1998 and tried to narrow down the answer using both the net and my trusty book.

Firstly, cast your eye over this CASA webpage concerning warbirds:

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Clicking the first link on the page will take you to Advisory Circulars for CASR 21.

As you can see, you can only operate a warbird in Down Under as an experimental aircraft or as a Limited Category Class B aircraft. The Limited Category is administered by the Australian Warbird Association Ltd. (AWAL), whilst the experimental certificates are regulated by CASA. For more information about the Limited Category try this URL:

Unfortunately, I can not find a complete online copy of CASR 21.191. However, I do have a hard copy, and would have no problem outlining the regulation if requested (the aforementioned regulation spans over several pages, so it was too large to summarise here). Please contact me at blackdog87@yahoo.com if you require an outline of CASR 21.191.

Thirdly, I know that the USA based Raptor Aviation usually helps warbird buyers obtain the relative clearances for non-US citizens.

Also, have a read through of Division 45.100 - "Antique, experimental and ex-military aircraft", which is available from this site:

Finally, here is some additional reading (NOTE: I haven't had a detailed look at these yet, so I don't know how relevant they are):

Approved Maintenance Organisation - Limited Category Aircraft:

Maintenance requirements for Class B aircraft:

Approved pilot maintenance for Class B aircraft:

Alternative log books for Class B aircraft: