Sunday, March 21, 2010

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What it means to fly ... X-Plane 9

"Some fly to survive, and others remain
to fly"
There [...] two types of pilots: those who lead in the blood the need to fly for the same reason they need to eat, sleep or breathe, and those who do work simply out of obligation or because they have no alternative. The latter often come to the profession by chance. However, the former are the concern since childhood, when they saw something in aircraft remarkable, mystical, sublime, perhaps.
Many of these began to build his first model airplanes or collecting photos, posters or any other collection of air reasons. They knew the specifications and details of any aircraft in detail. When they grow and are fortunate enough to make your children are thrilled floor, they felt most fortunate beings on the planet.

Pilots are a class apart from humans. They leave all the mundane to purify his spirit in the sky. This group knows the difference between flying to survive, and survive to fly. Aviation has also taught pride humility, and although flying is a spell, they voluntarily fall victim to their spell.

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When sunny days, watch the sky constantly wanting to be up there. During the rainy and cloudy days recreate the procedures in your mind because the mind of the pilots is always accessible to new elements, and understand that to fly need to believe in the unknown. But the pilots are men logical, calm, disciplined , which by necessity need to think clearly, because otherwise they risk losing life violently.

The pilots did not see their aircraft as machines, on the contrary, they are life forms that breathe and have different personalities. At times dialogue and to quarrel with them. These seduced fatal aircraft perceive beauty gifts unconditionally. Because nothing stimulates more senses of an airman who exquisite shape of an aircraft. They can not avoid being infected by the spell and live the rest of their lives captivated by the spell of her beauty. For the pilot, receive a plane is like finding a lost family time and time again.

When the tragic fate shows its inexorable presence and lives are lost in air mishaps, the essence of the pilot is saddened by what happened. But you can not, perhaps for an infinitesimal second, that his memory goes back to the apparatus, and flicción hit by fallen friend, it is inevitable.

For the aviator, the sound of pistons is a splendid symphony. The sound of a jet, the synthesis of force. For him, airports are altars to human talent, there are daily challenges and miracles against the power of nature and the force of gravity. They are places where roads and borders shrink and the world shrinks.

In air, the pilot is in his element, that is where he belongs. It is there that manages to break free of slavery that attach to land. This privilege allows you to climb the mountain of prodigious dimensions in space and reach the sky that other mortals have not reached. This gift enables you to recognize that nobody has seen the mountains until you see his shadow from the sky.

distinguish a person who has given his soul to aviation is easy, amid the crowd, when a plane goes by, his gaze turns inevitably to the sky looking for it, and will not rest until making eye contact with the object of distraction. No matter how many times you've seen the same plane, it is necessary to see it again.

Pilots perhaps can explain the physical moments of the flight, but describe what causes them to its existence it is impossible. For explaining the magic of flight is far beyond words.

Author: Francis Gary Powers. USAF pilot.

Monday, March 15, 2010

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"There is no more realistic flight simulator as a flight physical X "Plane"


Inaugurated the simulation section, specifically the X-Plane 9. Like all virtual aviators know, the civilian simulator market has clearly been dominated for years by Microsoft's Flight Simulator, X-Plane being the most direct rival, but always from afar. For the user, each version of X-Plane that came to market was a disappointment. However, coinciding with the closing of the studies that produced the ACES Flight Simulator, the guys from Laminar Research have put the batteries into what the X-Plane about the FS lacked: a full scenario and graphics that breathtaking.

fluency
cockpit instruments is very similar to reality
And so was born the version 9 of X-Plane, a visual environment that has nothing to do with previous versions. His scenes, 60Gb, offer some textures from around the world with much higher resolution than Flight Simulator X. In my no doubt gives me the impression of flying over an area much more realistic. Geographic elevations have also been maintained. If anything you could put a snag is that airports lack of buildings, which is working for simuleros development that will undoubtedly make a great work for free so that others can fly High quality at airports.


occupy terrain textures are more
60Gb and resolution than the default FSX scenery

In return, X-Plane presents us with a beacon and a detail lights on the runway which is unmatched by any other simulator on the market. The truth is it is a pleasure ride and see all these lights with brackets. And we can not forget one very important detail that pilots and simuleros really appreciate a lot: the gradient of the slopes. Farewell to flat tracks!

One of the major differences Flight Simulator graphics engine is that the X-Plane is based on OpenGL. And the result could not be better. At the same quality of graphics and on the same computer, X-Plane is much more fluid than FSX. This section highlights how quickly especially moving the dials, switches and other cockpit instruments, with an amazing realism, as well as the speed with which the program loads the textures of the terrain and the aircraft.


There Among
addons that play airports with absolute precision
many graphical configuration options we have, there is in common with the FS, which is the ability to adjust the minimum level of frames per second. The difference with Flight Simulator is that if due to overload scenario, the program came down to that limit, X-Plane add a fog effect to hide three-dimensional objects in the distance, thereby maintaining the quality and the minimum level of frames, and avoiding a possible "crash" chart that would leave us hanging. I must say that X-Plane never left me hanging not conflict with a third party software additions. And

addons have to talk because if it is true that X-Plane aircraft lacks high quality it is also true that there are developing projects very, very promising. Among them is a CRJ and Airbus A320 with a realism and graphic detail never seen and we look forward to its release. I will speak to them in future entries in this blog.

In graphical environment has been greatly improved, with nothing to envy the simulator
Microsoft
In X-Plane 9 has revolutionized the graphics and left intact the essence by this simulator was unveiled: the physics of flight. Currently there are no other civil simulator more realistic in terms of flight physics are concerned that X-Plane. I can assure you that after 18 years with Flight Simulator, I had to "learn" to land again with X-Plane.

In conclusion, I am very happy to finally have an alternative without doubt to the height of Flight Simulator. There are certainly better details, but it is a project with a very good base and above, with a future.
This blog definitely recommend X-Plane 9.


Tuesday, March 2, 2010

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The Performance


Today I will speak of what is known as aviation performance of an aircraft. This is a very interesting but in turn explain complex, especially staff "no aircraft, so I'll try to put it in the most simple objects can to make it easy to understand for everyone.

could say that the performance is the set of mathematical parameters that define the way you have to fly an airplane. Let me explain. All we ever heard, or experienced, the history of that aircraft had to throw fuel to save weight and to land, or much more high-profile cases as the landing of the aircraft carried passengers because overweight and can not take off.

The vast majority of aircraft operations are based on weight. Obviously the weight on an airplane is important, because it depends on factors such as takeoff speeds, runway length required, the cruising altitude to which we fly, or fuel consumption. All these factors are specified in the tables of performance of each airplane.
Each aircraft has its weight limits. Thus, in the section on specific gravity of an aircraft we can find the maximum takeoff weight, maximum weight of load, ramp weight, maximum landing weight, maximum weight-load, etc.

There is a direct relationship between the weight of an airplane and the speed required to perform a maneuver ie for every maneuver there is a speed determined by the weight of the aircraft at that time. For example, takeoff speeds are calculated, among other factors to be discussed later, depending on the weight. It is easy to understand that the higher weight, higher airspeed needed to sustain a plane in the air. The same applies to the stall speed (the speed at which the plane "left" to fly). The greater weight loss faster.

Table
relationship between available power and temperature
However, the result of flying a plane within a certain speed and weight is altered by three other factors taken into account too, which are temperature, altitude and air pressure that can determine for example, that an airplane can off or not.
Nobody scared because now I will not go into topics of physics to explain this. Just hold on to that higher temperature and altitude of an airport, the greater the speed needed for takeoff or landing a plane, and consequently, the higher the required runway length.

The engine power is also affected by these factors of altitude and temperature. The higher the temperature and altitude lower the available power in the engines. The reason is that a hot air ingested by a turbine at high speeds must not only may damage the internal parts but could cause the compressor stall due to lower air density, which could lead to loss of thrust in that motor.

Applying this to a practical case, we could say that in a very hot day in an airport located high above sea level, a plane may not have enough runway to take off according to their weight. Whereupon, or canceled flight, or remove the weight necessary to take the airplane within safe operating limits. This is the reason why Barajas tracks or those in very warm areas such as Andalusia and the Canary Islands have such long tracks.

required runway length may vary depending on the temp.
As the takeoffs and landings are subject to certain parameters, so is the climb after takeoff. The promotions are regulated by a minimum slope aircraft safety must be able to comply with engine stopped, and sometimes affected by the topography of an airport. For example, Alvedro has two headers, the 04 and 22. The latter heads to a hill, forcing a passenger aircraft to make an immediate left turn after takeoff with a speed limit. With limited aircraft capacity, with a lot of weight or high air temperature, could be the case that could not meet the required speed or the slope given in the case of engine failure, so that aircraft could not take off.


on contaminated runways
more meters are needed for takeoff, and landing stop
Other factors such as the weather affecting the performance of the aircraft on takeoff or landing. For example, rain, snow, or anything else that might "contaminate" the court penalized the same length required for takeoff. In turn, a contaminated runway braking capability offers less and therefore a greater length of runway needed to land, which can translate into the cancellation of operations because they can not meet the parameters. Nor can we forget that in the takeoff is referred to the length of runway needed to slow and stop if an abortion maneuvering and braking that takes into account the condition of the track, which finally together is what determines the weight and wind, the speed at which we can no longer abort the takeoff decision speed or V1.

As you have noticed, are thousands of factors to take into account the operations of the aircraft, always subject to specific parameters given by tables of performance of aircraft and in any case to the improvisation of the crew.