Also: Lufthan$a, LightSquared, Boeing/Wichita, Barnstorming!,
K-Max, Helo Rescue, CubCrafters, AMR, and SO MUCH MORE!!!
Airborne 01.06.12 is chock full of info about the week ending
Friday, January 6th, 2012 -- our FIRST Airborne of 2012...
Presented by Aero-TV veteran videographer and Airborne Host Ashley
Hale, and supported by ANN CEO/Editor-In-Chief Jim Campbell, Chief
Videographer Nathan Cremisino, and Aero-Journalists Tom Patton and
Paul Plack, this episode covers:
Reno Plans Full Air Races For 2012
Lufthansa Wants PAX To Pay For ETS
Embraer Thought It Won LAS... Now, Maybe
Not
Five Years After FSX, New Version Will Be Free Download
It's been over five years since Microsoft introduced Flight
Simulator X (as in "ten"), and it was a breakthrough in fidelity,
capabilities and ease of use. In 2009, the team which developed it
was let go, and it looked like "X" might be the end of the line for
the popular series. But in August of 2010 the new Microsoft Flight
was announced, and it debuted on Wednesday - as a free product.
Aero Linx: Aviation Radio
Spectrum
Aviation depends on access to an adequate and predictable radio
spectrum, which has become a highly valued global resource. Global
allocations of radio spectrum, including that for aviation, are
agreed by the 191 States of the International Telecommunications
Union ( ITU) at World Radiocommunication Conferences ( WRC), which
meet every 3-4 years. The resolutions that come out of these
meetings become radio regulations and, once signed by states, have
the status of international treaties.
RVSM - Reduced Vertical
Separation Minimum
The concept of reducing the vertical distance maintained by
aircraft in flight from the original 2,000-foot separation to 1,000
feet in flight levels between 29,000 and 41,000 feet—or FL290
to FL410. A 2,000-foot separation had been the standard since the
beginning of jet age flight. The separation reduction was made
possible by the more-accurate equipment on board modern aircraft;
however an aircraft and its equipment must be certified as
RVSM-compliant in order to fly in RVSM airspace. After evaluation
studies in the 1980s, RVSM was implemented in various parts of the
world beginning with the North Atlantic airspace in 1997.
"We are well into cruise operations, with a well-behaved
spacecraft safely on its way to Mars. After this trajectory
correction maneuver, we expect to be very close to where we
ultimately need to be for our entry point at the top of the Martian
atmosphere."
Source: Mars Science Laboratory Cruise Mission
Manager Arthur Amador, of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
Pasadena, CA.
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