Laser Beam Guidance for Oshkosh Air Show
Planes fly in from all over and converge at Oshkosh. Each year at Oshkosh Wisconsin is the annual Experimental Aircraft Association, the largest event of its kind in the world. According to NORAD officials, the ground-based laser system uses safety-tested low-level beams of alternating green and red laser lights to alert pilots that they are flying without approval in designated airspace. This system would be used when the aircraft in question cannot be contacted on VHF voice radio by ATC. However, the FAA contends, and AOPA agrees, that a number of important steps must be taken before the system is fielded.
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Diamond Twinstar
The slow airspeed characteristics are great and low stall speed range is certainly a plus. Since the aircraft is all-composite, it is light and fast. Although it looks like a twin trainer, yet a little racier it is not intended for training, however the price is quite attractive if you are comparing it to any new modern day high-performance single engine aircraft and you get the safety of two-engines. The new four-seater twin has retractable landing gear and will cruise at 18,000 feet on 11. The Twinstar is propelled by twin diesel engines which burn Jet A or even conventional diesel fuel.
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Is your air traffic control person real?
But besides that these VR Control towers right now are only simulators for training control tower operators, for instance you can have the busiest day at Laguardia, O'Hare, LAX or even the EAA show is Oshkosh just to give you a challenge. You can also stay up on this information by subscribing the newsletter. It will not be long now before many aircraft are flying themselves and the air traffic control personal in the control towers do not even have windows to look outside, as the whole thing will be in a video game like augmented reality which will be recorded for later use in virtual reality training of new controllers in air traffic control simulators. Think about this and the virtual reality simulators used in aviation. Did you know that air traffic professionals are now training in virtual reality simulators hooked up to pilots in aircraft simulators and the whole thing does not even exist? Talk about working in a dream world.
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Young Men Trying to Imitate the 9-11 Scenario, Part II
At Oshkosh (World's biggest air show and aviation gathering) he had more orders for kits of his composite aircraft than he could fulfill in a lifetime. The counselor at this young man's school did not understand what was a matter with this kid. How could they understand what it means to fly? They are ground lovers. People who fly think more three demisional, like those who build train sets and run them around their display. They were forced to view the world differently and with this knowledge a better understanding.
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