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RELAX. The New York Stock Exchange (N.Y.S.E.) did not wildly Skyrocket up one-thousand-plus (1,000+) points to Peak and then Immediately FreeFall two-thousand and two-hundred (-2,200) points, with an approximate net daily shift of a one-thousand and two hundred point deficit/decrease (-1,200) points for the day. And no the United States Legislative Branch (also know as the United States Congress) did not fail to deliver any material legislation. That was yesterday. No worries.
The Cable News Network’s (C.N.N.’s) chief aerospace reporter and correspondent Ashley Stricklandfirst reported a wonderful image of a Supermassive Black Hole in the middle of the Milky Way (pictured below) Four “4 million times more massive than our sun.”
OPINION EDITORIAL (Op-Ed): Typical destructive focused entities, individuals (including psychopaths), and organizations get desperate, by automatic default when they do not get what they want, how they want it, and when they want it, and/or they feel or sense their ego, consciously and/or subconsciously, or reputation may be tarnished and then ask, beg, demand, and/or blackmail for help, advice, assistance, and/or guidance from external organizations. Such is the case recently with Russia asking the Chinese Government (The People’s Republicof China) for economic, military, and financial assistance to support their unwarranted, unprovoked, and unjustified “Special Military Operation”, or also called/termed an Invasion And Active WAR in all countries on Earth other than Russia, even going far as to ask the Chinese Government to feed their dying and surviving Russian military troops with Meal Ready-To-Eat (MRE’s) kits. Logically, Obviously, and Naturally now that the Syrian and the Chinese Governments have been asked for help by Russia, Iran and North Korea are next up to bat. Russia’s Leadership and Russian President Putin, Regardless of the self-induced amnesia, “Military Doctrine”, fantastical brainwashing, self-echoing transformation of manufactured reality into self-actualized reality of fact(s), or simply legally defined willful blindness or conscious avoidance(click here) in the wording (e.g. esoteric, caustic, ambivalent, ignorant, dumb, stupid, advised, guidance, executive-directive, guidelines, coerced, divisive, abstruse, ambiguous, vague, misleading, objectionable, controversial, leveraged, blinded, masked, unmasked, main-street, swamp, distorting, manufacturing, argumentative, generic, academic, scholarly, Absolutely “Incompetent”, Scripted, Rehearsed, Planned, Premeditated, Willful, InMature, Juvenile, Childish, coded, linguistic, “That wasn’t my Intend” (Thereby freely, without coercion, admitting there was Intent) or even Cryptic) does not matter, it is all the same; “They Are What They Are” and “It Is What It Is.”
Both Himalayan (Persian crossed/mixed with Siamese, thus have Blue eyes and Long-Hair) male cats. Bottom: Name “Dusty”, Chocolate (Brown) Point ( Color “Points” refer to the color of the ears, paws, and tail), approximately 1.3 years of age. Top: Name “Kitty”, Flame (Orange) Point, approximately 4.3 years of age.
Next, over the approximately next three (3) months the mirrors, constructed of Beryllium (Be2+, atomic number [#] 4) metal, will be painstakingly aligned to ideal perfection with micron (micrometer / 10^-6 meter) and nanometer (10^-9 meter) movements of the eighteen (18) hexagonal (six-sided) mirrors, each 1.32 meters (4.3 feet) in diameter. Altogether the mirror array will have a diameter of 6.5 meters or 21.3 feet (21 feet and 4 inches).
Captain Randazzo also mentions an update, making changes to LNAV and Flight Director controls laws, is pending with the sign off from the second round of beta testing for the Boeing 747Lockheed Martin Prepar3Dproduct line.
Virgin Orbit(Long Beach, California; USA), a spin off company from the pioneering Virgin Galactic company, launched and deployed seven (7) small satellites today from a specially modified Boeing 747. The launch was live streaming through the companies webpage.
Virgin Orbit is a boutique small satellite launching company with the marketing line & slogan “THE PREMIERE SMALL SATELLITE LAUNCH SERVICE”, Prominently Display on the front page of the company website. “WE ARE ON A MISSION TO OPEN SPACE TO EVERYONE” is also displayed on the front lower right corner of the Virgin Orbit front page.
Notably, today’s Virgin Orbit launch was in the immediate wake of an earlier negatively disturbing announcement from Virgin Galactic; Just Hours Before on the same day, possibly as damage control and/or distraction.
Virgin Galactic decided to DROP the news it will be taking on an additional $425 million to $500 million United States Dollars (U.S.D.) of debt, while it has paused All revenue generating flight presumably through the end of the year or longer, according to Barrons (https://www.barrons.com/articles/virgin-galactic-stock-51642101161). Moreover, stockholding stakeholders took the latest gut punch with “Its stock shed more than 16% at one point during trading Thursday morning, hitting a low of $10.36 per share. That’s a far cry from its all-time high of $62.80, hit in early 2021,” according to the Cable News Network (https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/13/investing/virgin-galactic-debt-stock-scn/index.html).
Virgin Galactic stock (New York Stock Exchange symbol: SPCE) closed the day trading at $10.03 U.S.D., down 18.92% on the day from the previous low value (https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/SPCE/).
’Twas the night before launch, And all through Kourou, The teams are a go, and the weather is too! The rocket rolled out to the launchpad with glee, Join us for the world's biggest launch watch party!
At 7:20am ET (12:20 UTC), the beginning of a new, exciting decade of science climbed to the sky. Webb’s mission to #UnfoldTheUniverse will change our understanding of space as we know it. pic.twitter.com/Al8Wi5c0K6
The product specification webpage is visual & graphically appealing, while also providing specific and concise information that is, or should be, Essential. The overall graphics quality including texture sharpness and clarity at native 4K/Ultra-High-Definition (U.H.D.)Resolutions are PHENOMENAL, as expected, and is the Trademark of all Carenado products.Solid and Good Documentation is provided.The flight model and flight dynamics are Spectacular.Carendo has provided sufficient and solid systems, as it has historically done.
The simulation is an Absolute Pleasure, Delight, and Treasure to Fly!!!!!!!!
I have done extensive, rigorous, and prolonged testing for this review.
The final version tested is the newest version filed in the MSFS in simulator Marketplace, which is currently version 1.3.The aircraft can only be purchased within the MSFS in simulator Marketplace.
Most of the flight testing and Final flight model and flight dynamics testing was conducted with the Precision Flight Controls Yoke and Throttle set detailed and referenced below.
Saitek: PRO Flight Combat Rudder Peddles (Discontinued. No longer in production).
Purchase, Download, Installation & Updates:
Purchase, download, and installation were standard without any issues or problems within the MSFS Marketplace. The $29.99 United Stated Dollar (U.S.D.) price point is right on!Updates are provided routinely through the MSFS Marketplace.
Carenado Very Kindly provided a free press–copy for this review.
The provided manuals are solid and well written with sufficient illustrations and screenshots. Aircraft takeoff performance charts, takeoff and landing charts, center of gravity (C.G.) charts, and cruise power tables are all included and present, which is happily received by the customers. The charts and tables for the real aircraft this was modeled from should have been included in the manual.
Score: 9 out of 10
Graphics & Texture Quality:
The overall graphics quality including texture sharpness and clarity at native 4K/Ultra-High-Definition (U.H.D.)Resolutions are Phenomenal, as expected, and is the Trademark of all Carenado products.In the right lighting and viewpoint angle conditions, the exterior aircraft reflections look PHENOMENAL and should mirror those of the real life aircraft.
Score: 10 out of 10
Flight Dynamics & Flight Modeling Quality:
The final version tested was version 1.3 .
The flight model and flight dynamics are Spectacular. I took the aircraft through Rigorous flight envelope testing and single engine flight. It is by far the best twin engine flight simulation I have encountered to day. While I have not flown a real life Piper Seneca, though have flown a fast Piper Twin Comanche in real life, I would expect the simulation flight dynamics and flight model to mirror a real life Piper Seneca V. Carenado notes on their product webpage that the simulation has been rigorously tested by several real life Piper Seneca V pilots.
Score: 10 out of 10
Aircraft Systems Quality:
The final version tested was version 1.3 .
Carendo has provided sufficient and solid systems as they have done historically. However, they have greatly improved the quality of the systems at product release over the decades.
The simulation is an Absolute Pleasure, Delight, and Treasure to Fly!!!!!!!!
This simulation appears to mimic the real aircraft flying the actual real life Piper Seneca from the pilots’ seat. The $29.99 United Stated Dollar (U.S.D.) price point is right on! The version tested is the most current version 1.3. Other than adding increased systems depth and fidelity, I see no significant or notable areas needing corrections and/or improvements. The detailed product specifications and purchase portal can be accessed by clicking here.
“The first United Airlines passenger flight to fly using 100% sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) departed today from Chicago O’Hare International Airport at 1 p.m. ET and will arrive at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport at 4 p.m. ET. Research by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Bioenergy Technologies Office helped to develop the biofuel technology that powered this flight, and may power your own commercial flight some day. In fact, the goal is to have such fuels meet 100% of aviation fuel demand by 2050. Meeting this goal would be a monumental step in reducing global greenhouse gas emissions within the aviation industry.
The U.S. continues to lead in biofuel production. The biofuel industry has created 68,000 jobs, produced 17 billion gallons of fuel, and saved 544 million metric tons of CO2 from entering the atmosphere.”
LatinVFR‘s Airport Regional Environment X (A.R.E.X.)Europe provides regionally specific high-fidelity airport vehicles graphics; replacing the generic and bland stock airport vehicles provided in Microsoft Flight Simulation (M.S.F.S.).According to LatinVFR: “7 regions of Europe independently customized, Artic, the UK, France, Mediterranean West, Central Europe/ Germanic, Mediterranean East, and Russia” are included he package.
Scope and Goal:
The scope of this review is to evaluate the overall quality, in association its degree of fidelity, and its effective utility within the simulation.
The goal of this review is to have a robust review of the product, the product performance, and the product affects on the simulation performance.
I have done extensive, rigorous, and prolonged testing for this review.
Please Note: This Review was not solicited, suggested, financed, or influenced by LatinVFR, by anyone, anything, and/or any entity(ies) outside of AeroSpaceWeekly.com.
Once the purchase was made within the LatinVFR website access & licensing rights are granted with in the a downloadable Contrail App provide within the website at purchase and with a receipt and invoice email.
The Contrail App is Very User Friendly and an ease to use for routine updates, similar to that of Orbx Central App.
Score: 9.5/10
Manuals:
Due to the fact that no user interaction is required and/or needed, no product manual is provided to the user.
Score: Not Applicable (N/A)
Graphics Quality:
The overall graphics quality including texture sharpness and clarity at native 4K/Ultra-High-Definition (U.H.D.) resolution are excellent, as expected.
Score: 9/10
Functionality Quality:
I found the Airport Regional Environment X (A.R.E.X.) Europe provides to be robustly and universally applicable to all airports in North America (N.A.). While have airport vehicles vehicles density set to the absolute maximum possible setting, there were consistently noticeable levels of generic airports vehicles. This certainly could use further improvement because the designed estectic environmental effect is not Fully in effect. Lastly, while infrequent, I did notice some anomalies were Airport Regional Environment X (A.R.E.X.)North America (N.A.) vehicles were incorrectly placed in European airports.For example, the below screenshot was from an London (United Kingdom) airport with a Palm Beach International Airport, located Florida (U.S.A.), firetruck placed incorrectly.
Hopefully LatinVFR has or will correct this problem.
PLEASE NOTE AT THE END OF THIS REVIEW THERE IS A GALLERY OF SCREENSHOTS TAKEN DURING THIS REVIEW
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25.5 Points Out Of 30 Points
85.00%
Final Grade: B
Recommendation:
I Highly recommend Airport Regional Environment X (A.R.E.X.) Europe provides to add a much-needed esthetical environment that provides some notable sense of comfort and safety, at least on a Continental Scale with Regional Comforts.
Aerosoft has been a perennial publisher in the flight simulator market for decades. According to reports Aerosoft Extensively helped with the development of the latest iteration of the Microsoft Flight Simulator (M.S.F.S.). This year Aerosoft has published the first airline transport category turbojet a Meticulously Crafted high-fidelity Bombardier Canadair Regional Jet (C.R.J.) 550 and 700 aircraft for Microsoft Flight Simulator. The detailed product specifications and purchase portal can be accessed by clicking here.
Scope and Goal:
The scope of this review is to evaluate the overall quality, in association its degree of fidelity, and the effective utility within the simulation.
The final Aerosoft CRJ version tested was 1.0.11.0 .
All of the testing was done with the Saitek 3D PRO joystick. Inexcusably the product is not compatible with the external hardware interface FSUIPC (Pete and John Dawson) required for the Precision Flight Controls Yoke and Throttle set detailed below.
Upon direct email consultation with Aerosoft Project Manager Mathijs Kok and Cedric Mattys, it was disclosed that Aerosoft has declined to provide functionality to FSUIPC because M.S.F.S. has developed sufficient advanced controls native to the program.
Following receiving this information, I shut down the FSUIPC program and was able to nearly fully assign most essential control inputs into the M.S.F.S. Controls Assignments. However, the Take Off Go Around (T.O.G.A.) button assignment was not available in M.S.F.S. Controls menu. The M.S.F.S. Controls menu does have an option for an Auto Throttle T.O.G.A.
Ultimately, all essential assignments for external controls can be assigned within the M.S.F.S. Controls, With Limitations.
Saitek: PRO Flight Combat Rudder Peddles (Discontinued. No longer in production).
Purchase, Download, Installation & Updates:
Purchase, download, and installation were standard without any issues or problems. The $50.99 United Stated Dollar (U.S.D.) price is reasonable for most users.
The newer Aerosoft One interface
Aerosoft kindly provided a free press–copies for these reviews.
The provided manual is well written with sufficient details and very well illustrated with number screenshots. Aircraft takeoff performance charts, takeoff and landing charts, center of gravity (C.G.) charts, and cruise power tables are all absent. The charts and tables for the real aircraft this was modeled from should have been included in the manual.
Three–Dimensional (3D) Virtual Cockpit Modeling, Textures, and Lighting
The cockpit is delivered to the quality as expected.
Score: 10 out of 10
Flight Dynamics & Flight Modeling Quality:
The aircraft flight model and dynamics appear, sound, and feel as they should. The slow flight, stalling (i.e. power on & off, thirty-degree turning stalls, steep turns, power on (Clean and in Full Landing Configurations), acceleration and deceleration rates all seem very realistic and of the highest fidelity.
Score: 9.9 out of 10
Aircraft Systems Quality:
The aircraft systems are robust, basic, and well defined for s study level flight simulation. There are is no weather radar or terrain radar included.
Testing specifications for the we same as above except the Windows 11 upgrade was not present.
In summary, the P3D (version 5) version of the aircraft had better systems modeling due to the platform maturity and evolution. The flight model and flight dynamics were outstanding, yet felt and seemed notably lower than the MSFS version. Ultimately the texture modeling and texture quality were the best the inferior platform was capable of generating.
Emirates Airline took delivery of its 123rd Airbus A380. A total of 251 Airbus A380’s were produced and delivered. Emirates airlines bought and took nearly half or 49.00% , that is 123 out of 251, of those SuperJumbo airline transport category aircraft deliveries.
ORBITAL REEF: A orbiting space station catering to businesses and space tourism; offering Boutique Services to the not so vulnerable entities and populations.
Below is a summary video of the ORBITAL REEF program.
Remarkably,The Boeing Company has accepted the invitational calling to participate and contribute with the “Science module, station operations, maintenance engineering, and Starliner crew spacecraft.”
“Shatner chuckles repeatedly while looking at the view of Earth, while his crewmate Audrey Powers, Blue Origin’s vice president of mission and flight operations, exclaims, “Holy hell!” “Also on the flight were Glen de Vries, vice chair for life sciences and healthcare at the French software company Dassault Systèmes and Chris Boshuizen, co-founder of the Earth-observation company Planet.”
This was the voyage of the RSS First Step today. Its mission: encounter Earth from incredible views at apogee pic.twitter.com/Gzsnkv97K9
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