Is your air traffic control person real?
Think about this and the virtual reality simulators used in aviation. Now a days the air traffic controlers train in the VR, Virtual Reality World. For instance your air traffic control tower professional maybe in augmented reality, sitting in a room with no windows looking at your aircraft on a TV screen or video monitor. 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.
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Common Cockpit Concepts and Convenient Configurations
Now then I am not criticizing the lack of cranial capacity in the modern day human, rather simply suggesting a reality check is needed. If we borrow a friend's car we are constantly looking for where stuff is, where is the hood release, fuel hatch release and how the hell do I turn off this G-Dang windshield wiper? As machines get more complicated and humans become more brain dead due to bad use of natural selection, we will need counter these issues with better designed standardization such is being done in the CCI. We spend too much time in training of soldiers, drivers, pilots, operators with increasingly more complicated equipment. Often we see drivers in cars sitting too low and can barely see over the steering wheel, when we rent an aircraft everything is in the wrong place. When you go to driver training or into a simulator for your check ride, you simply find the best and most comfortable position and set it.
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Airport Noise Reduction
Yet when you think about it transportation is almost as important in a civilization as the flow of communication. Often we over look the obvious things to problems in our society instead we blame municipalities, military and airplanes. Think on this next time you find yourself complaining about the noise of an airport. Sound is a Sin Wave and creating another wave opposite to it you can cancel out the highs. One way to do this is to use a similar noise or sound wave and point it above the homes in a flat directional set of beams like a funnel.
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Future Shuttle Launches
However the shuttle should be able to be guided back thru the clouds via a ground system, augmented reality simulator like the Global Hawk. True safety should begin with complete reality based thinking, back up systems and confidence in the abilities of the systems and those trusted to do their job. Additionally why would the astronauts need to see to fly the spacecraft/aircraft at that point? After all they practice such aborted launches after lift off in simulators, where they are not actually looking at the ground and also we have available now systems, which are even used in Business Jets for zero/zero visibility landings. Is it possible to have such a system for the space shuttle launch? Or can we send up fire works along the perimeters of the spectator areas to trick a missile fired by anyone with a hand held surface to air shoulder launched weapon? We know our Space Shuttle could be targeted by International Terrorists. The systems send out many very hot flare type pieces out of the back of the aircraft and fool the Surface to air missile into thinking that those are the targets, thus the missile goes after the chafe flares instead of the actual aircraft.
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NASA SATS for Point-to-Point Air Travel Solutions
Here are two great websites so you can read up on this futuristic concept and the innovations rapidly approaching reality. But even now we are seeing Fed Ex pre-sort and send much of the packages direct, rather than to the Memphis Mid-Night Sort. Which indeed is something to see and is recommended for any logistics or distribution student as the economies of scale nearly pay for the extra distances that many packages travel thru the night to reach you by 10 AM guaranteed the next morning. The Spoke and Hub was a creation of the larger Airlines and Fred Smith's Fed Ex concept. NASA is rapidly working on ways to improve safety and efficiency in the movement of people around the globe, which will free up air-traffic and alleviate some of the over worked and over used airports of our nation.
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Jet Lag - 5 Pre-travel Steps to Reduce the Effects of Jet Lag
In reality of course no magic formula exists - and there is certainly no magic pill or tablet. However, when you arrive at your destination this will mean that you are now going to bed at 11. Reduce stress in the days before traveling. So, in this case, you need to slowly bring your bedtime forward a little bit (say fifteen minutes) each night for a week or ten days before your departure. You should begin to manage your body clock by gradually and slowly adjusting your bedtime and wake up time in the days before your journey, to bring these into line with the local time at your destination.
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Do Jet Lag Diets Work?
For example, when you arrive at your destination and the clock says it nine o'clock in the morning and time to start the day's work, your internal body clock may still be reading two o'clock in the morning (the time back home) and telling you that you should be in bed. Jet lag results from the inability of your body to adjust its own internal clock fast enough to bring it into line with local time when traveling. So just how is a diet supposed to help solve this little problem. These questions are of course important but perhaps the real question that we should be asking is why a diet should be effective at all as a jet lag cure. The second question is why only 39 people volunteered to try the diet on the return home when 95 people had used the diet on the outbound journey.
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Young Men Trying to Imitate the 9-11 Scenario, Part IV
Let's make the American dream a reality, and let's boo off the stage the policy makers who use scare tactics, photo-ops and rhetoric to achieve new heights in political stature. On a mission that most did not come back from. Why don't they stick up for what is right here and say something? If it were not for our victories in the air in previous wars we would not be able to maintain our countries freedom. Do you honestly think they would vote for more laws in aviation? Certainly not, yet they are the ones who know about such, who are able to change policy. There are so many pilots and so many great people that are pilots.
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The History of the Aircraft Wash Guys, Part Two
He felt college was superficial and that he had more experience and a better sense of reality than the textbooks of yester year being taught by Professors who had never actually run a business of any kind. By that time Lance had been operating in many other industries such as Agriculture Cleaning, Concrete Cleaning, Fleet Washing, Auto Detailing, Car Washing and of course Aviation. Lance also got into trouble for flying under a bridge although his friend an FAA Examiner gave him a warning, If you ever try anything like that again, I'll have you thrown in jail, now get the hell out of here!. During this time Lance also became involved in motorcycle street racing, the speed did not bother him much, so he did quite well. Lance was looking to take all his knowledge and bring it to the market on a big scale starting in California and then the Sun Belt States and eventually into Europe.
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Airline Security; Stewardesses The Last Line Of Defense!
However, the current efforts are focused primarily, on simply throwing in more security personnel and making them federal employees, which in reality has done little to actually increase security. This fact has repeatedly been proven by security inspections, where security agents, have boarded aircrafts with weapons and explosives etc. There is also the fact, that the Airlines often have little control over the actual Airport security and close to no-control at foreign Airports. In many foreign airports the airlines simply have to rely on the local security and the occasional inspections, by official institutions such as the FAA etc. There is also the real threat, of terrorist co-operators working within the Airline service industry, which has access to the Aircrafts and could place weapons or bombs onboard the Aircraft, to be used by the terrorists.
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General Aviation Manufacturing is in the Tank; Hang On It is Going to Get Worse
Yet in reality there are few niches, which do not have many competitors. This means if we have to import raw materials to compete, we pay those shipping costs too and as the price is passed on for the over regulation in every industry we are finding we are our own worst enemy. In America we no longer mine our own raw materials, Iron Ore mines cannot stay in business due to regulations and restrictions, same goes for Gold Mines, Copper, etc. The franchising industry is completely over regulated as well. BMW in the US is running into similar issues as are all auto manufacturers as they use Franchised Car Dealerships as a business model.
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